by Leo Shattuck, 2016
For the past week, I have been experimenting with two different note taking apps on the market, and I have compiled a comparison of the two.
Notability: I have been using the app Notability for about a week now, and here are some of the highlights I have discovered.
A sample of what Notability looks like.
- In Screen writing: This tool prevents your hand from smudging the screen and interfering with the touch screen as you write. It allows you to write, and when you reach the end of the iPad screen, it move the writing field to an available position allowing more notes to be taken easily.
- Has a microphone tool for recording lectures, or other notes.
- Has different writing strokes, colors, and sizes.
- Has a highlighter, different colors, and sizes.
- Has a cut, paste, and manipulate tool.
- Has an eraser, very plain.
- Has a pointer, can manipulate the screen without touching other media.
- The app can add photos, can write on top of photos.
- The paper can have backgrounds, with different colors, lines, graph paper, and detailed borders.
Penultimate:
As for Penultimate, the app is free on the app store, and it is an app that allows for note taking. It can separate files into subjects, and different folders. The only down side, right off the bat, Penultimate cannot upload, and annotate PDFs in the app.
Here are some highlights.
- Zoom in screen writing, can scroll constantly allowing for no skipping and pausing between, when space runs out.
- Has a pen with different sizes, colors, and strokes.
These are a few of the selections for pen stroke, and color choice.
- Has an eraser, depending on the speed of erasing, the size of the eraser changes as well.
The above picture is an example of the erasing in Penultimate, I started slow in the bottom left, and increased the speed of my erasing towards the top right corner. The quicker my stylus had moved, the wider the eraser had erased the ink. In Notability, if you touch any part of a line, the entire line itself is erased, not just that part of the line.
- Can add photos as well.
Conclusion:
The overall functionality of both apps is fantastic, the design is nice, and most of the functions are intuitive, and do not require much assistance from the help section. Personally, as a high school student, I would choose Notability as my app of choice because it can upload, and annotate PDFs. That is the selling point for me, it is a combination of a note taking app, and a PDF annotating app, it is really a great app not only for school, but for work use too.
by Leo Shattuck, 2016
For the past week, I have been experimenting with two different note taking apps on the market, and I have compiled a comparison of the two.
Notability: I have been using the app Notability for about a week now, and here are some of the highlights I have discovered.
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| A sample of what Notability looks like. |
- In Screen writing: This tool prevents your hand from smudging the screen and interfering with the touch screen as you write. It allows you to write, and when you reach the end of the iPad screen, it move the writing field to an available position allowing more notes to be taken easily.
- Has a microphone tool for recording lectures, or other notes.
- Has different writing strokes, colors, and sizes.
- Has a highlighter, different colors, and sizes.
- Has a cut, paste, and manipulate tool.
- Has an eraser, very plain.
- Has a pointer, can manipulate the screen without touching other media.
- The app can add photos, can write on top of photos.
- The paper can have backgrounds, with different colors, lines, graph paper, and detailed borders.
As for Penultimate, the app is free on the app store, and it is an app that allows for note taking. It can separate files into subjects, and different folders. The only down side, right off the bat, Penultimate cannot upload, and annotate PDFs in the app.
Here are some highlights.
- Zoom in screen writing, can scroll constantly allowing for no skipping and pausing between, when space runs out.
- Has a pen with different sizes, colors, and strokes.
These are a few of the selections for pen stroke, and color choice.
- Has an eraser, depending on the speed of erasing, the size of the eraser changes as well.
The above picture is an example of the erasing in Penultimate, I started slow in the bottom left, and increased the speed of my erasing towards the top right corner. The quicker my stylus had moved, the wider the eraser had erased the ink. In Notability, if you touch any part of a line, the entire line itself is erased, not just that part of the line.
- Can add photos as well.
Conclusion:
The overall functionality of both apps is fantastic, the design is nice, and most of the functions are intuitive, and do not require much assistance from the help section. Personally, as a high school student, I would choose Notability as my app of choice because it can upload, and annotate PDFs. That is the selling point for me, it is a combination of a note taking app, and a PDF annotating app, it is really a great app not only for school, but for work use too.
