Your videos are so clear and thorough. I love the niche that you’re in. It’s really needed. Keep up the great work. I’ve been a subscriber for a few years now and this review has me pumped to try Noteful! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you so much for your videos. I have now watched about 8 of them but I will be watching more. I only rarely like and subscribe, but in this case I did so because your presentations are ... Clear ... Fun ... Intelligent ... and you have the best welcome message of any of the RUclipsrs I have listened to.
I still love your explanation. Thank you for introducing the app Notetaking that I didn't know! At Notability, the most important thing for me is the voice recorder. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for this video. We finally found something that is better than notability. No shade on notability for I have used it for years, however noteful's hashtaging feature allowing you to better organize notebooks is too good to pass up. I also like the simplicity for exporting PDF's of notes. My notes show up correctly in the pdf and it looks great. I will be testing both this week to see which I prefer.
Success at last. By experimenting, (to create a moving marker with the voice recording) I found that when voice recording whilst writing continuous words (cursive script) or any character or drawing (without lifting the pen or highlighter) a greyed out version becomes inked in with the recording - curiously not on the first replaying, but on subsequent replays of the recording. Thus each time the pen or highlighter is lifted off the page, that corresponds to each inking in of the continuous section of writing that has been made - as you listen and watch the recording.
This looks like a great app. I use Notability for all my note needs, but have been frustrated at many things that seem too be resolved in Noteful. For the price, it is worth getting it just to try it out. I hope it is able to sync with an iPhone app as well. Thank you for a very interesting video. I look forward to seeing more 😊
I currently use Good Notes, the way we can zoom notes on Noteful is fantastic and my writing in Noteful is more beautiful 😅 but still leaning on Good Notes because of Hex codes, elements, precision eraser and view mode that you can easily move to hyperlinks. Hopefully they add that feature on Noteful. Thank you for your review 😊
I wouldn't compare it with notability, at least in my usage case : I use notability mainly for annotating a body of text, as in classical word processing apps (but easier and with more refined features) ; while (I believe) apps such as Goodnotes & Noteful don't allow a text body (not a text box) which stays put in the background and remains stable. Those apps seem more dedicated to either pure handwritten note taking, or PDF markup. While notability is way more suitable when it comes to docx style documents.
I also wanted to leave notability behind for a long time, but no other app has the same writing experience. I don’t knew what is,but it definitively has something. I’ll give this a try
now that they killed Notability with their new update , people are searching for another solution this may suffice. Notability is now dead, they ruined it
Hi. Thanks for your video. The only way to type text in Noteful is via textbox? If so, It's terrible. I tested a lot of things before buy it and considering this was like a standard feature (basic) in notability just select text, put the cursor in the line and just typing I thought this was the same in Noteful. Quite not happy with Noteful with the text box. I hope there is a way just put the cursor and typing the text. Thank you.
Thanks for your great reviews. It would be nice if the handwriting and hand annotation capabilities are embedded into Obsidian and saves in markdown format
Thanks for the video! Is it possible to insert a pdf into a layer? I created an A3 landscape notebook, and I want the portrait pdf to take up the left side of the page. Or maybe you can suggest a way to do an equivalent of this?
Hi, thanks for your review😀. I‘m a digital planner on Zoomnotes, and I wonder if Noteful has an Calendar function and if the completed pages are exportable in a .png file in order to put it in a Photobook app, for a yearly photo album? Can I scroll the papers like a book, or horizontally? Thank you
No, Noteful does not have a calendar like you get with ZoomNotes. You can export your documents as images (JPEG). It supports both vertical and horizontal scrolling but it's not like you get with a book (2-page view and stuff).
I'm also keeping an eye on other note taking apps in case Notability goes subscription only (it can happen and I do not do subscriptions). But still, for my purposes Notability is best. And mainly because of the audio recording feature. If I ever need to replace Notability then I know where to look Ropsy 😊 Thanks for the video 👍
Hello! I've been thinking of buying noteful because collanote is heating my ipad after some time of writing. Do it have a "dark mode" like collanote? I coudn't find it... When i put the paper in dark color, i have to use white color on the pen, it doens't change the pen color based on the paper color automatically :/
Only CollaNote and ZoomNotes support true dark mode. Other note-taking apps don’t have it yet. They just use dark paper and white ink which you can’t switch
I really need to be able to jump to audio playback location by clicking on locations within my notes. That should be within text and on drawing and handwriting. I also need handwriting OCR to text and audio voice to text automatic transcription (and searching through both). Does noteful do these things?
Noteful's audio playback links only to handwriting and you can skip through it. It doesn't link to text, though and certainly doesn't have transcription.
I have used Noteful off and on over the last year and they have definitely made a lot of progress with each update. I still have not been able to figure out how to activate an external link once I add it to a text box, and how to change the order of the pen & highlighter colours I add to the tool bar. If someone knows how to do either of these two things, I would be grateful!
Noteful does not support external links yet, only hyperlinks. You also can't move around the colours on the toolbar. We have resorted to customising our colours according to the order we want them in.
Hi, thanks for the video. I would like to know how to change the background color in noteful. I found only three options, I want to have customed color or at least “pure black color”, the dark color in noteful is not a “total black”.
I would like to see one more thing and that is I usually use it with multi-window always because i have a book or a study video open on the other side so when devided in half some of the applications the tool bar becomes very small like goodnotes …
Thank you, you are the fantastic human who has helped me to find the app i was looking for. Deal breaker for me between noteful, Notability, and goodnotes was: 1. Goodnotes took up lot of space. My ipad has less space. 2. Goodnote has OCR search. But noteful has the best Tagging feature... For me Tagging>OCR 3. Noteful is one time payment while Notability is subscription based. 4. Layers facility in Noteful is ground breaking which none other note taking app offer. *How I use Microsoft Onenote and Noteful in ipad for note taking* I am a traditional windows user. I recently became a iPad user. And i am the only one in my whole family with an ipad. Being a student outside the USA my budget does not allow me to buy subscription for cloud storage. Especially now with the dollar getting stronger day by day. To juggle in between both platforms(Apple and Microsoft) I have used this trick: 1. Used One note as primary note storage platform. 5GB free is storage. You can add more 5GB free by creating a new Microsoft ID. For those who don't know One note is supported both in ipad and windos pc. But *neither Goodnotes, noteful nor Notability support windows* 2. Once i complete taking my notes in noteful. I keep a copy of note in pdf format in one note. In case my ipad becomes damaged i can read the notes from windows pc. I have only one ipad in my entire family. But 5 windows pc among family and friends if need arises. Also I think tagging feature in noteful is better than the (non-ocr)search of one note. 3. I read my notes from noteful itself. Use tagging and layers for active recall.
You can also store your notes in Google Keep for 15GB free, instead of 5. 😃 You setup sounds awesome though and yeah, tagging is better than OCR searching for us too!
I don’t use notability, but I was considering Noteful since Goodnotes it also going subscription with goodnotes 6 and GN 5 will only be suppler up until ios 18
Hello 👋 As always I love your videos. Thank you! I got notability thanks to you - that was a few years ago. Do you have a series of how-to videos for noteful that teach how to use the elements and what you would use then for? E.g. this is how to create a thread of documents and you would do this to link together different topics that relate to the main one, for example etc etc. I have a disabled daughter and I’d love to teach her how to be organised in her studies but it’d be good to teach her what she can do and why that applies. Thanks again so much. I am hoping that you have the guides I need or are going to do them!! ❤️
Hello 😃 We are working on guides for several apps, and we’ll work on the Noteful one as well. The thread you’re talking about might work better in ZoomNotes though 🤔
Hi! Nice vid. Does that app annotate PDFs? Does it have presentation mode? Is it easy to add pages or does it let a document have endless pages as Notability does? BTW, once Noteful becomes popular (assuming it does) they will adapt a subscription model too. All companies need to have sustained funding in order to keep improving. The number of new users buying in can't keep growing indefinitely.
We're working on a full review to answer all your questions :). Yeah, we get why subscriptions are attractive, we are just not sure developers are targeting the right market and their idea is unsustainable for end users. Applied well, it can work without disadvantaging users. And even then, not every app can pull it off.
@@PaperlessX You’re right about that. Not sure I’d want to pay $15/ yr for notability. There are far too many apps on my iPad to be paying big subs. Who are the main users of Notability? Students? Not gonna work!!!
I have GoodNotes, and I really love it, but I am not happy with they way they dealt with text. The text box was prone to move around because it is selected a bit too easily and I often make handwritten notes that need to be inline with the text. Also, I noticed that if I went to the pen tool and then back to the text tool, the text tool would be selected and when I started typing and then backspace to correct a typo, it would delete the whole text box. Undo wouldn't work in this case because, although it would bring back the text box, it would be missing the text I had just typed in. Also, it doesn't do audio and as I went back over my notes I wouldn't be able to remember exactly what was said. When I saw Notability, I was really impressed by the way it kept your notes synced with the audio, but I was really put off by the subscription model. I really hate that. Even though it's not a huge amount of money, I balked at being a slave to a subscription if I wanted to keep my notes. I looked around, but if I'm being honest, no other app that I found was able to sync the notes as nicely as Notability. Noteful is the only one that I found that came close. It syncs the handwritten notes nicely and contrary to what you stated, you CAN in fact skip to the point of the lecture by tapping on the notes in question. However, it doesn't keep the typed notes synced. SAD. I found that I could do a work-around by jotting down a quick handwritten note next to a block of text. Even a quick number works. It's not as good as keeping each word, but it's nice to be able to skip to a certain point. I'm not in love with it's ability to handle shapes, but for the most part I'm impressed by it's layering system which GoodNotes does not have. So the layering system and audio sold me on Noteful. I also looked at ZoomNotes, but like you said, it's way too complicated and unwieldy. I haven't completely given up on them, but for now, I'm satisfied with Noteful.
Yes, Noteful now skips through audio. That came in an update after this video. Noteful is a great alternative for anyone wanting to avoid the Notability subscription. Like you, all things considered... we're happy with Noteful :)
I’ve been using Noteful and it is wonderful but have issues with the search function. Goodnotes searches not only the titles but also inside the notebooks. Noteful seems to be only searching the titles and no content. Am I doing something wrong?
How can i scroll through pdf on noteful without marking? I cannot always change to the hand option and turn on the highlighter option. I dont use any pencil.. jst hands to go thru the pdf and highlight importance lines from pdf
I am searching desperately for a Notability replacement because the app has become impossible to use for me. It crashes all the time for diverse reasons and the devs have been unable to help. I have been reporting stability bugs through the years and they have still not been corrected. I have been a Notability user for 8 years using it in several devices. The main things I look for in a replacement app are: - Voice recording synchronized with the written text (I almost always use text input with the iPhone keyboard) - Picture import: I take a lot of pics in seminars and conferences from powerpoint slides projected while at the same time writing lots of notes. - Stability: I want to be able to record long sessions within the same note with pics and text input in the iPhone without the app crashing. A single note with 8 hours recording is not unusual if you are taking a course. - Apps for iPhone, iPad and macOS with the notes synchronized between devices using iCloud. I appreciate your help with this.
Have you tried Bear? Not sure if it syncs recording, coz we haven’t studied it in depth yet. But look into Bear or Noted. Since you want audio recording with Text. At the moment, Noteful doesn’t support audio syncing to text. We hope to get the feature soon.
Does Noteful have a read only mode? I downloaded a hyperlinked planner into the App but I can't use the hyperlinks. I've tried searching for a button, but I can't find one. Help!
When copying and pasting, I sometimes have to tap the screen several times to get a paste prompt. Is this a known bug? Is there a shortcut to initiate the paste process?
We've reported that bug as well. The easiest way is to make sure the lasso tool is selected when you want to paste something. We haven't experienced it in a while though.
boy am I a pain!..... sorry, but b/ of you I'm taking a deep dive into Noteful and two things- is there a desktop (mac) version? I routinely use both the desktop and ipad versions of Notability to start a note then follow through on the ipad as I go about my day. As well, the SEARCH function!- If I have several pages of notes in Noteful (handwritten or Typed), the search feature does not find the terms I look for. This could be a deal breaker.
There is no desktop version for Noteful, but search is working. It highlights found terms and everything. Lol, Frank... I thought you were against Noteful...😂😂😂😂
@@PaperlessX Thank you very much. I got it. I’m 68 years young and it takes me some time to get where I want to go. This way is easier; so I may call on you more in the future to get a quick answer. Thanks.
Hi, I wonder if Noteful supports iPadOS’s multitasking. For example, you can have two Notability note on the same screen. For Notability, you can even have two instances of the Notability apps side by side. Does Noteful support that?
We’re working on getting Android and Windows devices. With a Surface, OneNote seems to be everyone’s favourite. But we can’t say for sure unless we’ve tried them ourselves
We haven’t seen that. Have you tried rebooting your iPad? I havnt seen that. You can record a video of it and send to support@getnoteful.com for the developers to see the bug
Not yet. We're working hard to get our hands on a good Android device, hopefully, it won't be long :) If you don't have to sync, Noteshelf is available on Android but we haven't tried it ourselves to know for sure.
Reviews often note that Goodnotes can serve as a PDF reader; can I plan to use Noteful for that purpose (in addition to taking notes and adding comments to a PDF)?
Which one is best among goodnotes 5 , notability and noteful , zoomnotes ? Please please any can suggest me any of these applications which one is best for notetaking
I just have one question. All I use notability is to import my textbooks, then highlight and write notes within the page. Notability does not honor the page numbering in the PDF. Do you know if Notable can do that? For example, I want page 1 to page 15 in the PDF. If you can answer this, I will switch to Notable and definitely buy you coffee!!!
Excelent review as usual!! i would like to know how to add Noteful on Ipad sharing options. As I highlight any random text and press "share" i just see Notability, Mail, Notes... but not Not Noteful. I search a lot but there is no video or tutorial teaching how to do it.
On your share options, scroll through the app and tap *More* > *Edit* > *plus icon* on Noteful to add it to your favourites. When an app doesn't support the file format you're trying to share, it won't appear though.
I finally bought Noteful (couldn't argue at that price although I am sceptical, with good reason, about 'lifetime' licences) since Notability still doesn't do folders and I am intrigued by the idea of layered notes. I'm also wondering if it can be a simpler Liquidtext for pdf markup. I'll soon be starting my language classes again after the summer break so I shall go full on with Noteful and see how it goes.
No, use Nebo when you need converted text. For example, if you know you will need to convert the notes of a specific document, use Nebo instead. So, our setup is that we use both apps.
Hi. This looks like a nice tool. I’ll try it. I would have wanted to support you by buying a notebook or two, but I noticed at the purchase process that it seems my region is not included in your schedule. I’m based in Nairobi, Kenya. Perhaps there is a way to still purchase even though my region is missed out?
We looked into this… it seems Spring doesn’t support purchases from some African countries (not sure if it’s all countries). We’re looking into changing the platform the first chance we can.
It’s hard to explain. But each app has a different handwriting feel unique to its code perhaps. So, Noteshelf feels pleasant on some devices… but it lags in another. It’s easy to tell apart handwriting from different apps. So that effectively affects the user experience you get from each app
We don't have any experience with Windows apps yet. But we do know that you can get Noteshelf, Nebo and, GoodNotes on Windows. We haven't tried them ourselves, though, to know how good they are.
We will cover this in a dedicated video. But in a nutshell, Notability format can’t convert to Noteful format. You can only export PDFs and images out of Notability
I have a bit of an opposite experience. The app keeps crashing after i imported a 300 page file that i have been writing in goodnotes. The app seems to be not handling either more no.of pages or different page templates good. Good notes handles them like a gem in my view.
It must be a bug, have you tried rebooting your iPad? We've had no trouble with 600+ pages. That makes the first bug we've encountered or heard in the app.
@@PaperlessX It is a bug and I've reported it to the Noteful team They are working on it as per my communication with them. Yet to find a solution for it. But I found a workaround for the time being.
Without the ability to skip through audio notes like you can in Notability I don't think I'll be switching, as it's one of the coolest features in Notability for my use. Looks pretty solid otherwise though. Also, does it have a Mac app? The fact that I can open up Notability and have all my notes synced there is also a feature I'd miss.
I want to like this app but there are too many things missing, for example, you can’t click in a link because the app doesn’t recognize it as a link even if it is inside a text box (at least not that I know), I can’t duplicate something the only way I can do is if I copy and paste. I can’t group objects and there is no way to save favorite tools like pens and etc. I also can’t send a document or let’s say a pic from an outside app to Noteful like I do in notability unless I am in the app and then import the pic or file to Noteful. And finally it doesn’t convert hand writing to text. I love the fact the Noteful is not a subscription app. For that reason I purchased their app. Even if I don’t use them a lot I still want to support them.
Noteful uses tags instead of folders, which, IMO is brilliant: you can have a document with several different tags and find it under each tag you assign it.
Please refer to this to better understand how to create ‘folders’ in Noteful: howto.beingpaperless.com/docs/3-pro-hacks-to-organise-your-notes-free/#Tags
Hi, Paperless X: Does Noteful allow same files names under different subjects/dividers? One thing bugs me a lot about Notability is that it doesn't allow same names for different files in different subjects. For example, I have two subjects - math and physics. For each subject, I took lectures throughout the term, and will label them as Lecture 1, lecture 2, etc. But I can not use the same name Lecture 1, Lecture 2, etc. for both math and physics courses, and have to rename them. Otherwise Notability complains. How do you deal with this problem? I understand Notability wants to track each file independently, but I don't like it. What else should I name it besides Lecture 1,2, ...?
Noteful doesn't have that problem. So far, we managed to add 3 Lecture 1 documents in 2 different folders. Two in the same folder and another one in a different folder.
Noteful stoped writing ✍️ I can’t use my pencil on it I paid for and everything was fine for a 7 months I have all my notes on it How can I fix it Someone help me please 🙏🏻
This might help: 1. Try tightening the screw on the Apple Pencil tip. 2. Or try turning on *Draw on Hover.* More about that here: ruclips.net/video/JrvTbCv0i6Q/видео.htmlsi=JbmS6oKsayXcjkDL
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Thank you for the recommendation…really liked the writing experience in this app.
You’re welcome 😃
Your videos are so clear and thorough. I love the niche that you’re in. It’s really needed. Keep up the great work. I’ve been a subscriber for a few years now and this review has me pumped to try Noteful! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
😃 Thank you very much for your support
Thank you so much for your videos. I have now watched about 8 of them but I will be watching more. I only rarely like and subscribe, but in this case I did so because your presentations are ... Clear ... Fun ... Intelligent ... and you have the best welcome message of any of the RUclipsrs I have listened to.
😃 Welcome to the family! 😃😃😃😃😃
I still love your explanation.
Thank you for introducing the app Notetaking that I didn't know!
At Notability, the most important thing for me is the voice recorder.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome :)
Thank you so much for this video. We finally found something that is better than notability. No shade on notability for I have used it for years, however noteful's hashtaging feature allowing you to better organize notebooks is too good to pass up. I also like the simplicity for exporting PDF's of notes. My notes show up correctly in the pdf and it looks great. I will be testing both this week to see which I prefer.
Yeah, Noteful can certainly replace Notability :)
Finally!! I totally concur, Notability was a hype and there was a time when they were the best notetaking app but now there are so many better options
Yeah, a lot of apps are coming onto the market with much better promises :)
Success at last. By experimenting, (to create a moving marker with the voice recording) I found that when voice recording whilst writing continuous words (cursive script) or any character or drawing (without lifting the pen or highlighter) a greyed out version becomes inked in with the recording - curiously not on the first replaying, but on subsequent replays of the recording. Thus each time the pen or highlighter is lifted off the page, that corresponds to each inking in of the continuous section of writing that has been made - as you listen and watch the recording.
Please send us a screen recording of that. We’re curious to see what you mean 😃 We’re on Facebook and Instagram 😁
I clicked to hear Ropsie say “fantastic human”. It is so soothing and calming. Back to the video.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This looks like a great app.
I use Notability for all my note needs, but have been frustrated at many things that seem too be resolved in Noteful.
For the price, it is worth getting it just to try it out.
I hope it is able to sync with an iPhone app as well.
Thank you for a very interesting video. I look forward to seeing more 😊
It does have an iPhone app, so it should sync.
I'm not gonna change my app sooner but still came to listen her " say whattt !! "
💕 From India, Ropsie
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I currently use Good Notes, the way we can zoom notes on Noteful is fantastic and my writing in Noteful is more beautiful 😅 but still leaning on Good Notes because of Hex codes, elements, precision eraser and view mode that you can easily move to hyperlinks. Hopefully they add that feature on Noteful. Thank you for your review 😊
The only thing Noteful doesn't have from your list are Hex codes and elements
In my opinion the eraser of GoodNotes sucks, even though they added the precision eraser, it’s still not as precise as I would want
@@PaperlessX What's Hex Code?
Is it for Color?
Hi how to horizontal scrol in noteful
@@m1iles are you drawing in GoodNotes lmao
I wouldn't compare it with notability, at least in my usage case : I use notability mainly for annotating a body of text, as in classical word processing apps (but easier and with more refined features) ; while (I believe) apps such as Goodnotes & Noteful don't allow a text body (not a text box) which stays put in the background and remains stable. Those apps seem more dedicated to either pure handwritten note taking, or PDF markup. While notability is way more suitable when it comes to docx style documents.
That is true! Notability has a better text tool
I also wanted to leave notability behind for a long time, but no other app has the same writing experience. I don’t knew what is,but it definitively has something. I’ll give this a try
I also had that issue for a long time. But Noteful managed to fix that problem for me. Let me know if it works for you
now that they killed Notability with their new update , people are searching for another solution this may suffice. Notability is now dead, they ruined it
I’ve been using Noteful for a year and it really worth paying it! I love the app and I always use it for taking notes ❤❤❤
How do i convert or export my notes in notability to noteful? When I stop my subscription to Notability will I lose access to my notes?
Hi. Thanks for your video. The only way to type text in Noteful is via textbox? If so, It's terrible. I tested a lot of things before buy it and considering this was like a standard feature (basic) in notability just select text, put the cursor in the line and just typing I thought this was the same in Noteful. Quite not happy with Noteful with the text box. I hope there is a way just put the cursor and typing the text. Thank you.
Brilliant!
Thanks for your great reviews. It would be nice if the handwriting and hand annotation capabilities are embedded into Obsidian and saves in markdown format
That would be cool indeed
Thanks for the video! Is it possible to insert a pdf into a layer? I created an A3 landscape notebook, and I want the portrait pdf to take up the left side of the page. Or maybe you can suggest a way to do an equivalent of this?
You can't add items to layers like that. OneNote is your best shot for that.
Hi, thanks for your review😀. I‘m a digital planner on Zoomnotes, and I wonder if Noteful has an Calendar function and if the completed pages are exportable in a .png file in order to put it in a Photobook app, for a yearly photo album? Can I scroll the papers like a book, or horizontally?
Thank you
No, Noteful does not have a calendar like you get with ZoomNotes. You can export your documents as images (JPEG). It supports both vertical and horizontal scrolling but it's not like you get with a book (2-page view and stuff).
Very good software. Recommended 🤜👍👌
I'm also keeping an eye on other note taking apps in case Notability goes subscription only (it can happen and I do not do subscriptions). But still, for my purposes Notability is best. And mainly because of the audio recording feature. If I ever need to replace Notability then I know where to look Ropsy 😊 Thanks for the video 👍
Anytime 😃😃😃😃😃
it now did lol
Hello! I've been thinking of buying noteful because collanote is heating my ipad after some time of writing.
Do it have a "dark mode" like collanote? I coudn't find it... When i put the paper in dark color, i have to use white color on the pen, it doens't change the pen color based on the paper color automatically :/
Only CollaNote and ZoomNotes support true dark mode. Other note-taking apps don’t have it yet. They just use dark paper and white ink which you can’t switch
I use goodnotes and zinnia side by side and that will never will neeever change
I really need to be able to jump to audio playback location by clicking on locations within my notes. That should be within text and on drawing and handwriting. I also need handwriting OCR to text and audio voice to text automatic transcription (and searching through both). Does noteful do these things?
Noteful's audio playback links only to handwriting and you can skip through it. It doesn't link to text, though and certainly doesn't have transcription.
is it save application for important notes?
I have used Noteful off and on over the last year and they have definitely made a lot of progress with each update. I still have not been able to figure out how to activate an external link once I add it to a text box, and how to change the order of the pen & highlighter colours I add to the tool bar. If someone knows how to do either of these two things, I would be grateful!
Noteful does not support external links yet, only hyperlinks. You also can't move around the colours on the toolbar. We have resorted to customising our colours according to the order we want them in.
I would like to see a more recent in depth update of this comparison.
Hi, thanks for the video. I would like to know how to change the background color in noteful. I found only three options, I want to have customed color or at least “pure black color”, the dark color in noteful is not a “total black”.
At the moment we’re limited to the those three colours.
I would like to see one more thing and that is I usually use it with multi-window always because i have a book or a study video open on the other side so when devided in half some of the applications the tool bar becomes very small like goodnotes …
Thank you, you are the fantastic human who has helped me to find the app i was looking for.
Deal breaker for me between noteful, Notability, and goodnotes was:
1. Goodnotes took up lot of space. My ipad has less space.
2. Goodnote has OCR search. But noteful has the best Tagging feature... For me Tagging>OCR
3. Noteful is one time payment while Notability is subscription based.
4. Layers facility in Noteful is ground breaking which none other note taking app offer.
*How I use Microsoft Onenote and Noteful in ipad for note taking*
I am a traditional windows user. I recently became a iPad user. And i am the only one in my whole family with an ipad.
Being a student outside the USA my budget does not allow me to buy subscription for cloud storage. Especially now with the dollar getting stronger day by day.
To juggle in between both platforms(Apple and Microsoft) I have used this trick:
1. Used One note as primary note storage platform. 5GB free is storage. You can add more 5GB free by creating a new Microsoft ID. For those who don't know One note is supported both in ipad and windos pc. But *neither Goodnotes, noteful nor Notability support windows*
2. Once i complete taking my notes in noteful. I keep a copy of note in pdf format in one note. In case my ipad becomes damaged i can read the notes from windows pc. I have only one ipad in my entire family. But 5 windows pc among family and friends if need arises. Also I think tagging feature in noteful is better than the (non-ocr)search of one note.
3. I read my notes from noteful itself. Use tagging and layers for active recall.
You can also store your notes in Google Keep for 15GB free, instead of 5. 😃 You setup sounds awesome though and yeah, tagging is better than OCR searching for us too!
I don’t use notability, but I was considering Noteful since Goodnotes it also going subscription with goodnotes 6 and GN 5 will only be suppler up until ios 18
The audio recording is the feature I'm looking for on Android, anyone know an app that works?
Jnotes is the only one we have found so far.
@Paperless X lecture notes works as well, I found out.
Hello 👋
As always I love your videos. Thank you! I got notability thanks to you - that was a few years ago. Do you have a series of how-to videos for noteful that teach how to use the elements and what you would use then for? E.g. this is how to create a thread of documents and you would do this to link together different topics that relate to the main one, for example etc etc.
I have a disabled daughter and I’d love to teach her how to be organised in her studies but it’d be good to teach her what she can do and why that applies. Thanks again so much. I am hoping that you have the guides I need or are going to do them!! ❤️
Hello 😃 We are working on guides for several apps, and we’ll work on the Noteful one as well. The thread you’re talking about might work better in ZoomNotes though 🤔
@@PaperlessX we use the record feature for everything really on notability - so if we change app it has to have this!
Nice video again Ropsie, thanks.
Welcome
Seems promising but I doubt I will switch since I got permanent license on Notability eventually.
Hi! Nice vid. Does that app annotate PDFs? Does it have presentation mode? Is it easy to add pages or does it let a document have endless pages as Notability does? BTW, once Noteful becomes popular (assuming it does) they will adapt a subscription model too. All companies need to have sustained funding in order to keep improving. The number of new users buying in can't keep growing indefinitely.
We're working on a full review to answer all your questions :). Yeah, we get why subscriptions are attractive, we are just not sure developers are targeting the right market and their idea is unsustainable for end users. Applied well, it can work without disadvantaging users. And even then, not every app can pull it off.
@@PaperlessX You’re right about that. Not sure I’d want to pay $15/ yr for notability. There are far too many apps on my iPad to be paying big subs. Who are the main users of Notability? Students? Not gonna work!!!
How do you transfer notes from other apps to noteful? And where do you leave the notes saved in noteful, is it in iCloud?
We'll do a video on moving to Noteful. The app saves your documents on your device and it syncs across devices
I hope they bring out a MacOS version that synchs with the iPad.
Hope so too!
I have GoodNotes, and I really love it, but I am not happy with they way they dealt with text. The text box was prone to move around because it is selected a bit too easily and I often make handwritten notes that need to be inline with the text. Also, I noticed that if I went to the pen tool and then back to the text tool, the text tool would be selected and when I started typing and then backspace to correct a typo, it would delete the whole text box. Undo wouldn't work in this case because, although it would bring back the text box, it would be missing the text I had just typed in.
Also, it doesn't do audio and as I went back over my notes I wouldn't be able to remember exactly what was said. When I saw Notability, I was really impressed by the way it kept your notes synced with the audio, but I was really put off by the subscription model. I really hate that. Even though it's not a huge amount of money, I balked at being a slave to a subscription if I wanted to keep my notes.
I looked around, but if I'm being honest, no other app that I found was able to sync the notes as nicely as Notability.
Noteful is the only one that I found that came close. It syncs the handwritten notes nicely and contrary to what you stated, you CAN in fact skip to the point of the lecture by tapping on the notes in question.
However, it doesn't keep the typed notes synced. SAD. I found that I could do a work-around by jotting down a quick handwritten note next to a block of text. Even a quick number works. It's not as good as keeping each word, but it's nice to be able to skip to a certain point.
I'm not in love with it's ability to handle shapes, but for the most part I'm impressed by it's layering system which GoodNotes does not have. So the layering system and audio sold me on Noteful.
I also looked at ZoomNotes, but like you said, it's way too complicated and unwieldy. I haven't completely given up on them, but for now, I'm satisfied with Noteful.
Yes, Noteful now skips through audio. That came in an update after this video. Noteful is a great alternative for anyone wanting to avoid the Notability subscription. Like you, all things considered... we're happy with Noteful :)
I’ve been using Noteful and it is wonderful but have issues with the search function. Goodnotes searches not only the titles but also inside the notebooks. Noteful seems to be only searching the titles and no content. Am I doing something wrong?
Universal search is limited to titles, yes. You have to open the notebook to search for its content.
How can i scroll through pdf on noteful without marking? I cannot always change to the hand option and turn on the highlighter option. I dont use any pencil.. jst hands to go thru the pdf and highlight importance lines from pdf
Scroll with two fingers
I am searching desperately for a Notability replacement because the app has become impossible to use for me. It crashes all the time for diverse reasons and the devs have been unable to help. I have been reporting stability bugs through the years and they have still not been corrected. I have been a Notability user for 8 years using it in several devices.
The main things I look for in a replacement app are:
- Voice recording synchronized with the written text (I almost always use text input with the iPhone keyboard)
- Picture import: I take a lot of pics in seminars and conferences from powerpoint slides projected while at the same time writing lots of notes.
- Stability: I want to be able to record long sessions within the same note with pics and text input in the iPhone without the app crashing. A single note with 8 hours recording is not unusual if you are taking a course.
- Apps for iPhone, iPad and macOS with the notes synchronized between devices using iCloud.
I appreciate your help with this.
Have you tried Bear? Not sure if it syncs recording, coz we haven’t studied it in depth yet. But look into Bear or Noted. Since you want audio recording with Text. At the moment, Noteful doesn’t support audio syncing to text. We hope to get the feature soon.
Does Noteful have a read only mode? I downloaded a hyperlinked planner into the App but I can't use the hyperlinks. I've tried searching for a button, but I can't find one. Help!
Long press the hyperlinks
@@PaperlessX Thanks!
I agree that Zoom Notes is complicated. This is why I never used it for a long period at time either.
Could you pls tell how were able to transfer all your notes from notability to note-full???
I didn’t. Generally, it’s not wise to transfer your notes between apps, unless you don’t mind them being converted to PDF
How to do the rotation of page, i just dont know how to get to see all pages as on 6:29
Four-squared icon at above the pen tool
When copying and pasting, I sometimes have to tap the screen several times to get a paste prompt. Is this a known bug? Is there a shortcut to initiate the paste process?
We've reported that bug as well. The easiest way is to make sure the lasso tool is selected when you want to paste something. We haven't experienced it in a while though.
boy am I a pain!..... sorry, but b/ of you I'm taking a deep dive into Noteful and two things- is there a desktop (mac) version? I routinely use both the desktop and ipad versions of Notability to start a note then follow through on the ipad as I go about my day. As well, the SEARCH function!- If I have several pages of notes in Noteful (handwritten or Typed), the search feature does not find the terms I look for. This could be a deal breaker.
There is no desktop version for Noteful, but search is working. It highlights found terms and everything. Lol, Frank... I thought you were against Noteful...😂😂😂😂
Hi Ropsie. I have a question. How can I import files from “Pages” (*IOS) into Noteful app? Notability does not seem to have that problem.
Export a pages document into Noteful, you mean? You have to export a word document out of the app, not use the traditional sharing icon.
@@PaperlessX Thank you very much. I got it. I’m 68 years young and it takes me some time to get where I want to go. This way is easier; so I may call on you more in the future to get a quick answer. Thanks.
Brother make a video on Goodnotes 5.9 now it’s free but I purchased that a year back what if I update now I need pay again 🥺
You don’t need to pay for the new update of GoodNotes
Hi, I wonder if Noteful supports iPadOS’s multitasking. For example, you can have two Notability note on the same screen. For Notability, you can even have two instances of the Notability apps side by side. Does Noteful support that?
Noteful does support multiple instances
do you have a best app for windows/android users, I have a Surface Go.
We’re working on getting Android and Windows devices. With a Surface, OneNote seems to be everyone’s favourite. But we can’t say for sure unless we’ve tried them ourselves
Hi, I had a problem with eraser, a square appears and disappears after erasing my lines, do you have the same issue?
We haven’t seen that. Have you tried rebooting your iPad? I havnt seen that. You can record a video of it and send to support@getnoteful.com for the developers to see the bug
I get the same issue, but only when erasing with more than one layer, if that makes sense
Can a moving marker accompany the voice recording ? This is a great feature in Notability.
Yes
Sorry, could you explain?
Thank you for the video. Do you have any advice about a good note taking application like Goodnotes on Android?
Not yet. We're working hard to get our hands on a good Android device, hopefully, it won't be long :) If you don't have to sync, Noteshelf is available on Android but we haven't tried it ourselves to know for sure.
@@PaperlessX Thank you very much!
Reviews often note that Goodnotes can serve as a PDF reader; can I plan to use Noteful for that purpose (in addition to taking notes and adding comments to a PDF)?
Most note-taking apps are decent PDF readers.
Which one is best among goodnotes 5 , notability and noteful , zoomnotes ? Please please any can suggest me any of these applications which one is best for notetaking
They are really good. But your workflow determines which one will be the best for you
@@PaperlessX workflow, which is yours?
I just have one question. All I use notability is to import my textbooks, then highlight and write notes within the page. Notability does not honor the page numbering in the PDF. Do you know if Notable can do that? For example, I want page 1 to page 15 in the PDF. If you can answer this, I will switch to Notable and definitely buy you coffee!!!
We responded to you on the website already explaining all the possible options you have with this.
Excelent review as usual!! i would like to know how to add Noteful on Ipad sharing options. As I highlight any random text and press "share" i just see Notability, Mail, Notes... but not Not Noteful. I search a lot but there is no video or tutorial teaching how to do it.
On your share options, scroll through the app and tap *More* > *Edit* > *plus icon* on Noteful to add it to your favourites. When an app doesn't support the file format you're trying to share, it won't appear though.
I finally bought Noteful (couldn't argue at that price although I am sceptical, with good reason, about 'lifetime' licences) since Notability still doesn't do folders and I am intrigued by the idea of layered notes. I'm also wondering if it can be a simpler Liquidtext for pdf markup. I'll soon be starting my language classes again after the summer break so I shall go full on with Noteful and see how it goes.
LiquidText's setup might be difficult to replace with Noteful. But, the layers will be great for language notes :)
Somewhere you commented that one could use Nebo to convert Noteful documents to text. Can you show us a step by step workflow to do that?
No, use Nebo when you need converted text. For example, if you know you will need to convert the notes of a specific document, use Nebo instead. So, our setup is that we use both apps.
Hi. This looks like a nice tool. I’ll try it. I would have wanted to support you by buying a notebook or two, but I noticed at the purchase process that it seems my region is not included in your schedule. I’m based in Nairobi, Kenya. Perhaps there is a way to still purchase even though my region is missed out?
Thank you for your support, we appreciate it. Not sure why your region is not supported though 🤔. We’ll look into it and get back to you.
We looked into this… it seems Spring doesn’t support purchases from some African countries (not sure if it’s all countries). We’re looking into changing the platform the first chance we can.
What should be pen settings for good handwriting? I actually love goodnotes because my handwriting there seems to be good.
Maybe our course can help you with that:
Pen tool: ruclips.net/video/Kr7p5ialQWo/видео.htmlsi=2TPxuucPEq0bK5EP
how does goodnotes hurt your hand when writing when it's both screen writing please explain
It’s hard to explain. But each app has a different handwriting feel unique to its code perhaps. So, Noteshelf feels pleasant on some devices… but it lags in another. It’s easy to tell apart handwriting from different apps. So that effectively affects the user experience you get from each app
Ty for your good informative veds. I got GoodNotes I lost all my notes. How I can retrieve those note..Ty I will shift for these.
Did you have a backup for your notes? You can restore them from the backup
Don't see a way to copy from the clipboard (as shared with a Mac)?
Copy sections?
@@PaperlessX Thanks! Copying from the clipboard does work after all. Just force a 'paste' flag on the page and it pastes from the Mac clipboard.
Can we click pdf with hyperlink? I have planner template and usually used it in goodnotes.
Yes you can. You have to long-press the hyperlinks with your finger
@@PaperlessX thx I will buy it then
No ink to text conversion is a deal breaker for now.
Noteful not currently available on Apple's Macintosh App Store???
Yeah, it's not. It's only available for the M1 Macs
It will be good if the app can support gif. Better still if it can embed videos. 😆but it still a very good app at this price.
hi could you suggest noteful alternative for windows.
We don't have any experience with Windows apps yet. But we do know that you can get Noteshelf, Nebo and, GoodNotes on Windows. We haven't tried them ourselves, though, to know how good they are.
How do I export my notes in notability to noteful?
We will cover this in a dedicated video. But in a nutshell, Notability format can’t convert to Noteful format. You can only export PDFs and images out of Notability
Can you import your notability notes into noteful ?
Is there any way to add links of web pages...?
Not yet, no.
Hey, only for iPad still! Come on developers!!
Which notes app makes sounds while writing with apple pencil?
CollaNote
@@PaperlessX thanks from India
Looks like it doesn't have the ability to save favorite tool settings like Notability? At least I couldn't find a way in the free version.
It doesn't.
Awesome
I have a bit of an opposite experience. The app keeps crashing after i imported a 300 page file that i have been writing in goodnotes.
The app seems to be not handling either more no.of pages or different page templates good.
Good notes handles them like a gem in my view.
It must be a bug, have you tried rebooting your iPad? We've had no trouble with 600+ pages. That makes the first bug we've encountered or heard in the app.
@@PaperlessX It is a bug and I've reported it to the Noteful team They are working on it as per my communication with them. Yet to find a solution for it. But I found a workaround for the time being.
Looks decent, but without a corresponding Mac app, it doesn't fit my needs. This is a serious oversight, imo.
Without the ability to skip through audio notes like you can in Notability I don't think I'll be switching, as it's one of the coolest features in Notability for my use. Looks pretty solid otherwise though. Also, does it have a Mac app? The fact that I can open up Notability and have all my notes synced there is also a feature I'd miss.
It doesn't have a mac version yet, just an iPhone one. Yeah, skipping through audio is very important.
I want to like this app but there are too many things missing, for example, you can’t click in a link because the app doesn’t recognize it as a link even if it is inside a text box (at least not that I know), I can’t duplicate something the only way I can do is if I copy and paste. I can’t group objects and there is no way to save favorite tools like pens and etc. I also can’t send a document or let’s say a pic from an outside app to Noteful like I do in notability unless I am in the app and then import the pic or file to Noteful. And finally it doesn’t convert hand writing to text. I love the fact the Noteful is not a subscription app. For that reason I purchased their app. Even if I don’t use them a lot I still want to support them.
For hyperlinks, you have to long-press.
Can we select PDF text?
No, you can’t
But does it recognize your handwritings just as Goodnote or Notability does? Major deal breaker if it doesn't.
It doesn’t have handwriting recognition yet
@@PaperlessX : That’s a pretty major drawback.
I don't know if I am stupid, but how do I create folders in Noteful???
Noteful uses tags instead of folders, which, IMO is brilliant: you can have a document with several different tags and find it under each tag you assign it.
Please refer to this to better understand how to create ‘folders’ in Noteful: howto.beingpaperless.com/docs/3-pro-hacks-to-organise-your-notes-free/#Tags
I just paid immediately, best experience with the pen I have.
The pen tool in Noteful is definitely the best on the iPad at the moment!
Outlines!
What do you think of CollaNote?
Working on a review for that
Does it have presentation mode ?
We haven’t tried presenting from the app. But there is no indication that it has
Can you share and collaborate notes with others? Thanks.
No you can’t.
Hi. Love from india.. Waiting for Margin note videos with updates
😃😃😃😃😃
Is noteful free?
Hi, Paperless X:
Does Noteful allow same files names under different subjects/dividers? One thing bugs me a lot about Notability is that it doesn't allow same names for different files in different subjects. For example, I have two subjects - math and physics. For each subject, I took lectures throughout the term, and will label them as Lecture 1, lecture 2, etc. But I can not use the same name Lecture 1, Lecture 2, etc. for both math and physics courses, and have to rename them. Otherwise Notability complains. How do you deal with this problem? I understand Notability wants to track each file independently, but I don't like it. What else should I name it besides Lecture 1,2, ...?
Noteful doesn't have that problem. So far, we managed to add 3 Lecture 1 documents in 2 different folders. Two in the same folder and another one in a different folder.
The only thing I don’t like is the app icon
notability was also one time price in the beginning lets hope noteful won't take the same path
That path is an uncool one!
Gotta go purchase Noteful, esp now that Notability put a yearly subscription Even though we initially bought the app as a once off😡😡 such frauds
They reversed that for old users. You get to keep the app for free if you already bought it.
Do you consider this one better than GoodNotes?
For us it was. It really depends on your needs
Noteful stoped writing ✍️ I can’t use my pencil on it I paid for and everything was fine for a 7 months
I have all my notes on it
How can I fix it
Someone help me please 🙏🏻
Can you send us a screen recording on social media? Facebook or Instagram.
@@PaperlessX I have sent you a video in instagram
This might help:
1. Try tightening the screw on the Apple Pencil tip. 2. Or try turning on *Draw on Hover.* More about that here: ruclips.net/video/JrvTbCv0i6Q/видео.htmlsi=JbmS6oKsayXcjkDL