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Best Note Talking App for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil?
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It only offers a few choices. With ZoomNotes you can go as thick or thin as you want. OneNote's thinnest setting is still much thinner than Notability.
after some tries, having tried OneNote, Word, GoodNotes, Notability and UPad, and having renounced to my "dream" of inserting text in previous pages, i decided that the best is.... noone!
regrettably enough, I think that somehow they are all partially perfect.
At the moment I am preferring GoodNotes, cos I love the pencil support and also the shape recognitions, but incredibly it totally misses preferred brushes and texts, so every text box I add I need to setup my style from the last one used!
A function that perfectly has however notability, that sadly has no shape recognition (i do not like the "draw figure" function).
So, I am a bit disappointed. It would be so easy to both of them to become almost perfect!
regrettably enough, I think that somehow they are all partially perfect.
At the moment I am preferring GoodNotes, cos I love the pencil support and also the shape recognitions, but incredibly it totally misses preferred brushes and texts, so every text box I add I need to setup my style from the last one used!
A function that perfectly has however notability, that sadly has no shape recognition (i do not like the "draw figure" function).
So, I am a bit disappointed. It would be so easy to both of them to become almost perfect!
Yes. I like OneNote for the way it organizes notes. But Notability makes my handwriting come out better (NotePlus definitely leads in that category, but it is not well updated for Apple Pencil, and does not have an OS x app).
can i ask you what do you like most about OneNote? I am trying, but I'm find quiet difficult to fall in love with it..
For me OneNote is at its best when used as a complete solution across multiple types of devices. It's reasonably powerful on the iPad, but incredibly powerful on a PC (and to a lesser extent, a Mac). I really like the organizational scheme of notebooks, tabbed sections, pages and sub-pages. Very easy to keep track of and organize even very large notebooks.
For me, apps like Goodnotes and Notability (I used Goodnotes) are great for taking notes when I desire a fixed-page size, or if I am prioritizing handwriting capabilities for a particular note. But I will often then send my notes as PDF's to my master OneNote notebooks for permanent storage as it's much easier to reference old documentation in large notebooks in OneNote than in either of those other programs. I also really like the 'endless canvas' concept in OneNote because it means you never run out of space as you quickly take notes - and you can aggregate all sorts of information together into one 'workspace.' One my PC I often use one page as a project or subject management platform, and zoom way out where I have all sorts of information about the subject at hand in one place like a large desk. On the iPad, OneNote is still somewhat limited, but in my opinion it's the best-supported note taking app, and the one most likely to remain viable for the long term. I often wonder what will happen in the long run with these small apps if the developers stop supporting them. the only access you'll have to your notes is if you exported them as PDF's or image files.
Exactly. I don't have a PC, so I cannot use the full capabilities of OneNote, but even on iPad/Mac it's quite powerful. The inking is not quite as good as Notability, but in spite of that I have settled on OneNote because of its organizational capabilities. With OneNote being free (I think it doesn't require an Office 365 subscription), it's hard for other apps to compete.
thanks for the clear explanation! You made some good point, in particular the last one: i too often wonder what will happen in the next years with all these "small" applications..
By the way, iAnnotate has been just refreshed to support iPad pro and Apple pencil! Anyone already owning it had the possibility to give it a try?