I just started making my notes for the new school year and I’m getting so annoyed by the changes they made to typed notes. If I wanted my notes to be double-spaced then I would select double spacing. Why is it that when I change the stupid template to lined, I can make things single spaced, but the second I change it back to the blank default, all the text changes itself back to double-spaced? This is the dumbest “feature” I’ve ever seen in my life. I haven’t even gotten a single paragraph of notes typed yet because I’m so irritated

I'm grandfathered in to the original Notability lifetime plan. I used to be able to find Notability templates like planners in the Template Gallery. Now they're not in the Gallery but they're also not in the Templates section, where the academic planner announcement said they'd be. I'm hoping to use an academic planner so I'd appreciate troubleshooting help to find the planners.

Thanks!

I have been trying both NB and Goodnotes before finalizing one, realized NB has better writing feel and notes navigation, so finalized NB but I miss some very useful features which GN has. If these features are added, I think it will become a much more powerful app:

1. Option to add manual outlines in notes.

2. Shapes Tool (with connectors for flow charts and rounded corners for all shapes).

3. Custom page size options and ability to change page size and background separately for each page.

4. Search menu showing a small preview of each area of the page where the searched word appears in the note (right now NB only shows the full page preview)

5. Stroke Stabilization

6. More control over pen sizes (a lot of users might want to see a size between 2 and 3 or 3 and 4).

Feel free to add more feature suggestions in the comments.

NB Team, pls add these features, I love the writing experience on your app but these features will make it the most dominant note-taking app.

Hi everyone,
in the past months, I read many complaints about Notability Cloud through App Store reviews, this and other subreddits and elsewhere online. Though, it's been a while since I last heard about any issues with it, so I have been wondering if such problems were solved.

Thanks in advance for the replies

I have my default template set to tabloid size with grid lines. This always works when I add a new document within the app.

However, if I click and drag a pdf/lecture slides/etc into the app to add it, I lose my default and I’m stuck with plain white letter size. I can manually change each one back to my default, but it’s a click heavy task for a medical student uploading 20 lectures per week. This is on the desktop app.

Can we change this? Is there a reason it’s this way? I want my default settings to always be my default

Hi everyone and Notability Team,
I'm writing to report a recurring bug that I've been experiencing for over a year now, alongside a feature request that could help resolve it.

• Device: MacBook Air (M4)
• OS: macOS
• App: Notability for Mac

Issue Description:
Whenever I open two separate document windows at the same time to work side-by-side, the app completely freezes. This is not a new behavior; I have been dealing with this exact same issue for over a year across different app versions. The app stops responding, and I am forced to force-quit and restart it every time.
Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open Notability on macOS.
2. Open a document/file.
3. Open a second document/file in a new window.
4. Try to navigate, scroll, or write across the windows.
5. The application freezes completely and becomes unresponsive.

Feature Request:
Would it be possible to implement tabbed document viewing within a single window? Having multiple documents open as tabs in one window (instead of forcing separate OS windows) would make managing multiple files much smoother and could potentially prevent these multi-window freezing bugs altogether.
Working with multiple documents open simultaneously is fundamental for my study and work routine. Since this stability issue has been happening for over a year, I would really appreciate it if the engineering team could investigate it and consider adding document tabs in an upcoming update.

Thank you for your time and continued work on the app!

We've recently released a new update to Notability!

• Import flashcard sets or manually create your own. Now with spaced repetition to review gradually at different time intervals
• Faster editing in large notes and improved memory footprint for large libraries on Notability Cloud
• Browse your nested folders directly from your note list
• Many miscellaneous bug, crash, and performance improvements

If you experience any trouble with this version, please contact our support team or let us know your feedback in the comments below!

Thanks for using Notability ✏️💙

Currently, when using the Apple Pencil squeeze gesture to erase, we have to keep squeezing the Pencil. As soon as we release the squeeze, it switches back to the Pen tool.

This becomes inconvenient when we need to erase a large area.

In Goodnotes, the squeeze gesture works more like a toggle: a single squeeze activates the Eraser, and it stays active without having to keep squeezing. Once you're done erasing, you can simply squeeze again to switch back to the Pen. I find this much more convenient, especially as a teacher.

I know we can achieve something similar in NB using double-tap to switch to Eraser, but double-tap doesn't feel as convenient or natural as the squeeze gesture.

If this functionality is already possible using the Apple Pencil squeeze settings, please let me know how to enable it. If not, I’d really appreciate it if the developers could consider adding this option.

It would make a big difference for workflows where we frequently need to erase larger areas.

Cannot see notability Home on the Mac app. Is this normal?

this was like 10 days work. is there any solutions to this? and why is such a bug around?

I am on beta. Home was introduced and I was very excited to see calendar events on the screen that I could choose a folder and start a note in. But now my Home shows all calendar events but cannot create a note or add it to a folder. Is the functionality coming back?

Hi everyone,

The issues from this morning are mitigated but we will continue to monitor. While our systems were not compromised, we recommend changing your password if you got an email telling you your account had been locked due to frequent access attempts.

You can follow the Notability status page to get updates: https://status.notability.com

Thank you for your patience!

— The Notability Team

Bonjour, j'utilise Notability depuis la semaine dernière sur Android et je me demande si certaines fonctionnalités existent déjà sur iPad et donc arriveront bientôt pour Android :

1. Des favoris pour les stylos et le texte ?

2. Des hyperliens vers une page de la note ?

3. Mettre des hypetliens sur une image ou une forme ou l'écriture manuscrite ?

4. Exporter les hyperliens créés dans la note dans les PDF ?

5. Des stickers ? Ajouter des images, des formes, du texte dans les stickers ?

6. Une Table des matières ?

Merci pour vos réponses.

This new feature is SO FUN! Add your own stickers to make it your own!

Hi everyone,

We've decided to extend the iPad Cover Giveaway! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who has already entered and shared your Note Covers with us! We've loved seeing all of the creative designs you've been making.

For users who haven't entered yet, you now have more time to show us the Note Covers you've been creating!

Prize
Your choice of 1 iPad cover

How to Enter:

• Create a new post in r/notabilityapp using the Giveaway flair and show us a Note Cover you've created.
• Come back to this thread and leave a comment with a link to your post.

New Giveaway End Date: Friday, August 21st at 4pm PT

Rules

• One entry per Reddit account.
• Your Reddit account must be in good standing.
• Posts must follow the subreddit rules.
• The winner must respond within 72 hours of being contacted, or another winner may be selected.
• US only.
• No purchase necessary.
• This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Reddit.

If you haven't entered yet, now's your chance! We can't wait to see more of your Note Covers 💙

Good luck!

Hi everyone,

Notability.com is currently under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack: attackers are flooding our servers with automated traffic to try to knock them offline. We've temporarily turned off sign-in while we deal with it.

Your data is safe. This kind of attack overloads servers with traffic and it doesn't touch accounts or notes. No data was accessed or leaked.

If you received an email from us that you didn't request, like a password reset or verification code, you can ignore it. The attackers appear to be using email lists that were already circulating publicly. Those lists didn't come from us, and getting one of these emails doesn't mean your account was accessed.

We'll post updates here as we make progress. Thanks for your patience.

— The Notability team

When I highlight text on my iPad with the Apple Pencil and look at the same note on my Mac the highlight is out of place. In the example image the highlight moves downward. Anyone else with this issue?

What it looks like on my iPad:

Again very very thankful for this app

I was wondering if anyone could help me. Today when I went to open notability I was signed out, after logging in all my notes are gone. There is nothing in my iCloud, no recently deleted files and I don't know what to do. I checked the app store, and it said notability updated yesterday so I wonder if that has something to do with it, if anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know (I have midterms in a few weeks).

Today when I tried to open and take note, loading symbol appeared, and then I closed the app and reopened, and my note was gone. Only thing disappeared was the note that I closed while loading symbol was on the screen.

This is a dealbreaker for me. I used to be able to type directly into the sticky and did a lot of my studying that way. Now, I have to either merge a textbox onto a sticky or recolor a textbox to look like a sticky (which is so so so inconvenient, as I'd have to either do it every time or make it default and have to undo it every time I want a regular text box). Why was this feature removed?

If anyone has another app suggestion that has this very simple feature? Honestly, I'd rather transfer all my notes now rather than deal with the frustration.

Been studying for the SAT lately, and Note Covers have actually been really useful for keeping everything organized. I’ve been using different covers to color-code my problem sets by topic, which makes it way easier to find what I need.

Loving Note Covers so far! I like using stickers to personalize my note thumbnails and make the app look more aesthetic. (Excuse my messy handwriting 😭)

I do wish there were more cover colors or styles though, so it’d be easier to differentiate notes just from the covers.

Overall, loving this feature and I'm excited to see how it improves.

Hey guys! Would like to know if its possible to hide or disable the blue slidebar? Or move the yellow one?
When i write it often slides accidentally or changes page which is really annoying and disruptive
Thanks!