Now, in Notability 14, we have to scroll up to find our notebook name. Before, we could quickly rename our notebooks, without thinking too much about it. It also gives you the illusion that you’re taking notes on an infinite canvas, and it feels empty, like something is missing. But Notability 14 has gone full-screen permanently. It’s usually an option we can choose never to use, which some of us never do. How is the new feature better than quick notes? New workspaceĪ lot of apps have the option for full-screen mode. This just complicates our quick notes, which we’ve always been able to create with single taps. But only if you have set the right line spacing for them. There you go! The options started making sense for a split second. So, after changing our default page template for quick notes to a basic, plain one, we tried again. I mean, it’s Notability we were determined to find out how these template options work. In disbelief, we tried something different. So, we should expect another bug-fixing update soon. It also ruined all the topic pages in it. This is a new level of dysfunction for such a big app! Notability failed to import the cover page of the digital notebook I just imported. We were happy about that until Notability failed to import the document correctly. So, importing a PDF into a new notebook is easy enough. We tried to stay positive and import a document instead. It looks terrible! At least we can undo, to clear the mess. Except it’s not working now, is it? The feature fails to override our custom default templates and just adds the templates above them. Let’s try to appreciate the developer’s logic for this feature: a quick way for us to change our page templates after creating a notebook. Creating new notebooksĬreating new notebooks is now very confusing because of the page template options that appear at the bottom of the screen. That was Notability’s defining characteristic-its simplicity-and they just took that away. Basically, in Notability 14, you will waste a lot of time doing things you have become used to doing in much fewer steps. Selecting multiple documents is also more tedious. This extremely minimalist user interface can’t accommodate the recycle bin icon. Yet, there is plenty of room for the bin icon next to the settings icon. The recycle bin, for example, is no longer available on the homepage. We now have to take too many steps to access and use pretty much every feature in the app. It looks better while ruining our experience in the app. Yet, that is the main theme for almost every feature in Notability 14.

While we appreciate the minimalist look, it’s pointless if it doesn’t improve our user experience in the app. Now we are forced to rely on colourful subjects (which I don’t use).

To be fair, dividers have always been hard to see in Notability, but the new user interface just made it worse. Just out of curiosity, besides potentially wasting scores of productivity hours scrolling through the Notability gallery, how many of us have actually found it useful enough to need it in the app?ĭividers are now more difficult to see since this update, thanks to the massive dots for our subjects in the app. A social media platform in a productivity app is counterproductive, especially when the developers make it so readily available with the rest of our notes. I see myself accidentally tapping on the gallery and getting frustrated every single time. We’ve never been fans of the gallery since its launch, so we would prefer it was tucked away somewhere we never saw it. We hate that they have put the gallery on the sidebar with our folders and notes in the app. The tabs for our recent and favourite notes also make sense. It’s intuitive, as is the new way we’re creating folders now. We love where they’ve put the settings icon and the search bar. We never thought the app could get more minimalist than it already was. New user interfaceįrom the homepage to the workspace, Notability 14 looks more modern and minimalist. Less than two weeks after the big Notability 14 update, we’re getting a lot of bug fixes.

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