It’s quite magical, although not a feature I use in my game design notes at all.
The microphone is excellent for some meeting contexts because it can record audio and match your notes to the audio you are listening back to. The basic tools which you expect to see are all present and correct - a text tool for typing in text, a pen, a highlighter, an eraser, a selection lasso.
It is possible to have a list view of the notes within a subject, but I like having the thumbnails - it helps with my visual memory. I periodically take a look in that area and decide where they should be moved to. “Recent notes” which shows the 10 most recent notes that you’ve interacted with - edited or looked at - and “Unfiled Notes” which have been created but don’t live inside any of the dividers which I’ve defined. There are three special virtual subjects at the top - “All Notes” which show everything as you might expect. Luckily I’ve been grandfathered in with my original purchase, but I couldn’t recommend it to people who are opposed to subscription apps for financial or other reasons Organisation of notesĪs you can see from this screenshot, I can create groups of notes called dividers (I have work projects and game design collections visible in the screenshot), and within those I can great subjects, and then within each subject I can have as many notes as I like. Sadly it has now become a subscription based application. It has won out in terms of organisation of notes, tools available, and configurability.
#Notability vs goodnotes software#
This is the software which I’ve settled on and has nicely replaced paper notebooks both in my work life and my game design life. In the end the shortlist that I came down to had two apps which I’ve used for an extended period of time Some early apps I tried like Nebo, Penultimate and Microsoft OneNote all fell down on one thing or another - not enough tools, didn’t give me enough freedom when I was working, wasn’t good at organising the elements of my notebooks. My daughter used it as her main computing device all through university and has now written over a million words on it), and started looking for handwritten note taking applications which were perfect for my needs.
#Notability vs goodnotes pro#
As soon as the iPad Pro with Apple Pencil became available I purchased one ( My 2017 iPad Pro is still going strong. I’ve loved tablet computers ever since I became an official PenPoint developer back in 1991 (the PenPoint operating system was amazing, built on some concepts which were twenty years ahead of their time - but I digress). A couple of decades ago I moved to doing almost everything on computer rather than on paper, but lost something along the way… the rigidity of typing, the lack of an ability to easily incorporate sketches, indicate relationships, highlight odd phrases, that kind of thing.įast forward to the iPad Pro. I’m not one of those people.īack in the 20th Century, my early stages of game design were done by scribbling notes in a notebook and thinking through ideas on paper. Some people are able to think things through in their head and then produce perfect prose at will, fully formed and beautifully thought through. Digital notepads are some of my favourite apps for the ‘noodling around’ stage of game design
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