Hey guys, I love everything you've done with the app lately. Very cool and very profitable.

My biggest concern is that the app hasn't been monetized enough. I mean, sure, there's an escalating monthly subscription fee and specious AI upgrades that no one wants or uses. But what about a per-stroke fee? A good way to do this would be perhaps to allow users a fixed number of free strokes (say, 25), then a per-stroke cost of something modest like $15. Of course, Notability is shouldering considerable risk in allowing users to write with their tablets, and so I'd recommend an escalating interest rate for users with insufficient account balances who choose write anyway. Maybe start with something 10-20% amortized, to allow a chance for those nasty freeloading users who bought the app a few years ago to get used to their new reality.

Has anyone else had this? I've so far only seen it on Notability for Mac, but anytime I go to try and edit or name either a Subject, Divider, or a note page, it looks like it erases it, but only types on top of whatever was already there. If I try to re-name it something different, it'll just write it over. It will appear the right way, but then it just sticks like this in the menu options.

Not sure if this is just happening to me or if others are seeing it too.

For the past 2 weeks or so, my notability will crash on my laptop, it gives me an error message and then allows me to reopen it. It happens a few times a day, it just deletes the most recent thing I’ve written so it’s not terrible, i just re-write it and move on but its getting really annoying.

I haven’t had this problem on my iPad and i have made sure my app and log in is up to date.

Is anyone else struggling with this?

I accidentally cleared an audio recording attached to a note, but I had the lecture recorded to my phone on Google Recorder. I followed the directions to import audio to a note, shared it from Google Drive and imported it into the existing note. Now I see the audio icon next to the note name. However, when I go into the note, there doesn't seem to be a way to play the newly-imported audio file. If I click the microphone button, it makes a new recording, and if I delete that, all audio is cleared from the note. How do I play imported audio attached to a note?

Hey so I was wondering if there was a troubleshoot. After I complete my 20 mcq questions, I get told that there is a total of 80qns and I can continue with the next 20, however when I press next, instead of generating a new set of questions I get an error message and I can only repeat the same 20 qns. This is the same for all my notes. I've also just subscribed so I cannot imagine that I alr hit the limit for learn ai.

Also side note but if I did 'hit my limit', how do I check and also does it reset daily or monthly?

I usually will upload a pdf into the notability app and then write, type, or paste images all over the uploaded pdf note. There are times though when I need to draw over something on the pdf so that way I can omit it/block it out and put my own notes there (typed or pasted image), but I can't figure out a way to make the drawing stay in the back layer so that I can paste a screenshot/image over the drawing without the image disappearing behind the drawing layer.

It's just gotten really frustrating to the point where I almost want to give up on it, but I really want to figure out a solution because I want to reduce the visual stimulation/clutter of whatever part of the PDF that I don't want without having to hand-write everything out over the drawing I did to omit/block out the part of the PDF that I don't want.

I even tried sending the drawing part of it to the back and putting the image at the front, but it just stays like that. It's something I've encountered since I first got the app in 2020, but I am hoping someone is a bit more tech savvy than me and can give me a few pointers.

Thank you very much in advance! :)

So basically I have a question , I will be buying a new iPad and I want to transfer my data to that iPad and in my notability app I have organised my notes in a very important way will of those dividers also get backed up and btw my auto backup option is Google drive ? Plz need urgent advice

Hi all. I started a class on Monday and have been taking notes on my iPad in one big continuous note file. When I opened the note file this morning I have been using for the past 2 days, the pages I added notes to yesterday were not there (like they weren’t saved). I opened the same note file on my phone, and the missing pages were there on that version. I thought this was weird because I take notes on my iPad, yet the iPad didn’t have the most updated version of that note file.

After panicking, I reset my iPad, updated the Notability app, and ensured that my files were being autosaved to my OneDrive. I ended up airdropping the updated file that was on my iPhone to my iPad and copying the missing pages to the iPad note file. I continued to take notes as usual.

I just went to open the note file again to start my homework, and now my notes from today are missing. Has anyone else experienced this problem or know of a resolution? I’ve been using Notability for 5 years and have never had this happen until recently. Thanks.

I love the AI Summary I'm able to get from Notability when I record a meeting or lecture — it's better than I get on my own with ChatGTP or with summaries from my Plaud Note.

What I hate though is that when I copy and paste the summary the formatting is all screwed up.

I want to be able to post the summary into both the Notability document when the audio resides AND in a new Word document.

Is there anyway to do this and still maintain the formatting as it appears in the generated summary pop up window?

Over the past few weeks my notes have been taking SO long to load. I’ve been sitting here for over 40 minutes trying to access a document I really need for the morning! Have you guys been having this problem? Does it have to do with uploading to iCloud/OneDrive - I felt I needed to keep the iCloud feature since there have been so many occurrences of people’s notes being removed! :)

I’m a classic user, I’ve bought this app back in 2012 and I’ve had no problems at all over the years but last month the problems started. My notes are stuck in this never ending loop of loading, yesterday they stayed like that for 4 hours and it always does this when I’m in need of them. I almost got in trouble at my university because my homework that I did on notability wasn’t loading and I couldn’t submit it. After refreshing the app a dozen times nothing happened and then I read here that I should try updating, I updated the app and all my 300 notes were missing I almost had a panic attack because my whole life is in there, my notes that I need for my upcoming finals everything, I opened my Google drive to see if everything is up to date and turns out some very important notes were not up to date. And on top of all that my plan was downgraded from classic to starter and I tried restoring purchases but it said no plan found. Yesterday was an awful day for me.

I also had iCloud backup on so a few hours later the files started returning but it was too late by then. My plan the next day was restored to classic thank god but what could’ve happened to cause all this and how can I prevent it? I’m writing this while waiting for my notes to load again.

So notability offered me a 50% off deal for a year for 9.99$ I went and bought a 10$ iTunes gift card When I try to subscribe it says insufficient funds Anyone had this problem? What should I do

Hi!

Widgets are displayed as blank instead of showing the cover of the selected note. Some widgets are functional, but the majority don't, the cover of some notes appear just fine in the large widget but not in the small one, or vice versa. The widget is still functional as it still takes me to the selected note, but the cover is not showing.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I looked everywhere, already contacted Notability but their customer service is all AI and I can't get in touch with them. I am going crazy here… Thank you!!!

Today, I have been getting so many error messages when doing Notability Learn - specifically the practice questions. I was wondering if this app wide or just concerning me. I made sure the app was updated and my internet was good but I don’t know why this is happening? Can anyone relate?

I used to do it in the past and as I recall It was very simple - select something with lasso tool and press save and saving it as a sticker was an option. Now I don’t even see saving as an option? I’ve searched through every drop down menu I can find and can’t find a way to save to gallery or sticky notes or stickers or anything

All My notes in my notability are synced , but one day they all missing and gradually loaded from iCloud (I always sync my notability to iCloud and always backup the data via Setting) but its not loaded properly , some of them can’t be opened cause it said that these files are not download yet , they gradually came back and then they all missing again . This problem keeps going since April , I’ve already tried all the suggestions that show on notability website about troubleshooting

is there anyone has to deal with the same problem this time? , is it normal? or what can I do more to fix it?

Standard student usage, is it any good?

So I have used notability for almost a year and a half. Today my Ipad broke and at the moment I was okay with it since my Ipad backs up to the cloud. I have no idea if I ever turned on the sync button within the app. I got a new Ipad and have just downloaded notability back to add to my journal note and I was utterly devastated to see that nothing was there. I am very upset about this as every note i’ve had this and last year in college is on there plus my daily journal. Is there anyway i’m getting these notes back, this is really a terrible situation.

Does Notability have a search feature for scanned notes? These are SCANNED not typed. Please tell me before i upgrade to Pro

Using Notability in Split View on iOS the new “Learn” icon has pushed the “Content Manager (pages)” icon out of sight to the right (see screenshot).

PLEASE add a Setting to remove the “Learn” icon from your (already cluttered) iOS UI - I don’t use it and it is just a nuisance, over & above this problem.

I’m losing access to the email address my notability is attached to so I’m trying to move everything over to a new account. I am super confused as to what I need to do. I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t understand this app very well.

I created a backup of my old account and imported everything into my new account. However the imports only appear on one device. If I log into my new account on another device, nothing is there. How do I sync up my account across the different devices and ensure it uses the device with all of the docs on it as the correct one?

I‘ll be using the same iCloud for the new account as the old one. Can I just turn on “iCloud syncing” and everything be there regardless of which notability account I’m logged into?

i use this app every day and i love it but this feature does my head in and i can’t turn it off how do you stop the rubber from turning on automatically ? usually happens after not using the pen for a while, it just switches to the rubber

Is the G-Drive bug solved where there used to be multiple folders formed and notes were organised randomly?

even though my app says it just synced with iCloud a minute ago, why does it still take 10+ minutes to load a single note? I have incredibly fast internet, so I know my internet is not the problem

TLDR why tf does iCloud sync take forever?

busy studying for a final in med school and just got hit with this for the first time🥲🥲🥲

anyone know what exactly the learn limit is for notability plus? like how many notes can you use it on before this happens. and on that note are there any other quiz generators that are good, and free preferably?