Goodnotes 5 อัปเดตใหม่ มีอะไรแตกต่างจากแอปสมุดโน้ต Goodnotes 4 บ้าง ตามมาอ่านกันได้เลยค่า เป็นแอปสมุดโน้ตที่ควรค่าแก่การดาวโหลดมาใช้บน. Recently, GoodNotes launched GoodNotes 5, an upgrade to GoodNotes 4. Even though the company has offered an upgrade bundle so that GoodNotes 4 users can buy GoodNotes 5 for a lower cost, it's still a purchase that users will have to make before support for GoodNotes 4 is discontinued. Notability users don't have this issue. What is the difference between the Business and Personal planner? The Business planner includes a CRM. The Personal planner does not. Is the Key2Success Notebook the same in OneNote and PDF?: Both the OneNote and the PDF version of the Key2Success Planner is the same content. The only difference is one is designed for PDF apps and one is.
GoodNotes is a terrific app for handwritten notes. I often need a combination of diagrams, text, and plain old doodles for meeting notes. The advantage of GoodNotes has always been its excellent handwriting recognition and export. But, I've switched to Notability since a recent update that adds handwriting recognition on top of Notability's other more refined features.
Handwriting
The ink system in GoodNotes is subtly better than Notability. It feels a bit smoother and more realistic to me. But the difference is slight and in my use not important enough to ignore the other application differences.
There are plenty of ink variations in Notability for my needs. I try to avoid using too many colors and almost always use the same line thickness.
Text and More
While I love handwriting in GoodNotes it always felt a bit awkward to type text. Notability makes it a lot more natural to jump between the two modes and provides some additional formatting options that actually keep me typing longer.
As with the ink, there are limited text formatting options in Notability but what's there is easily accessible and covers most of what I want to do. Notability also adds an option to create three favorite formats to quickly apply to text.
The same features exist on the iPhone and the Mac but the favorites do not sync, which is a bit of let down. Still, the simplicity of having just three favorites is exactly how I work with text formatting in my notes. I don't want to fiddle, I just want to call attention to some text or create an informative divider in a section.
Simple formatting is the least of what I like about text in Notability. The support for outlines and checklist is excellent and something that is one of the main selling point over GoodNotes. On any of the supported Notability platforms, just select some text and set the format to checklist. Tapping an item crosses it off the list. Tab indents new items and they even support formatted text within checklists.
Number outlines are also well supported in Notability. I find these particularly useful for meeting agendas. I add annotations with the handwriting ink around the outline and later export the entire thing to my note archive in DEVONthink.
There's a curious option when working with date text in Notability. After typing a date string, it becomes underlined. Tapping or clicking the date reveals surprisingly useful options.
I'd love to see Notability expand on these options to link between dates and calendar events or even allow me to change the date with a calendar picker instead of typing.
Organization and Search
A major difference between Notability and GoodNotes (and many other iOS note apps) is Notability's global search and three level document organization. Through a combination of folders and dividers I can create a moderately useful note organization. I use 'dividers' to separate three top level categories of notes: Home, Work, and Scratch (a.k.a. 'Doodles'). Inside each divider I have 'groups' that hold notes in Notability. I use groups like projects. Groups can have a user selected highlight color as well as an optional passcode.
None of this matters too much because I don't use Notability for long term storage and Notability supports global search across all documents. This means I keep running documents in Notability but if I ever need to quickly jump to a location in a given note, I can use search.
Search in Notability is somewhat basic but it has 90% of what I want, including search of handwriting recognition text, search of indexed PDFs, and hit highlighting across documents.
Multi-Document View and Markup
Notability now also supports multi-document view. It's like split-screen but within the Notability window. This makes working with a reference document (like a PDF) and notes a very nice improvement over using a separate PDF viewer with the iOS split screen mode.
GoodNotes and Notability are comparable PDF annotation tools and both are inferior to a dedicated app like PDF Expert. The markup options are limited to the standard ink tools like drawing and highlights. However, the annotation index is helpful and bookmarking is easy.
My biggest complaint about PDF annotation in Notability is that the 'Stickies' are not true PDF annotations. They are really just image objects you can write on top of. Text and drawings are not contained within the sticky. I'd use these a lot more if they worked a little bit better.
Goodnotes 4 For Mac
Simple annotation in both apps is useful. If I was working on a large reference document and doing a lot of markup, I'd much rather be in an app like Liquid Text or PDF Expert.
Multi-Device Sync
This is an area where Notability is far superior to GoodNotes. Syncing through iCloud in Notability is nearly instant and happens in the background across devices. When I open my iPhone to quickly check on a note, it's already there. I can add content from my Mac and it's on all of my devices within seconds without having to launch the apps.
The iPad is the best way to use Notability in my opinion but that doesn't mean it's a bad experience on the Mac or iPhone. The Mac app is a full featured note-taking tool with great options for check lists, editing, and audio recordings. It lacks some of the nicer features of the iPad like text extraction from handwriting and saved text styles.
Capture and Export
Notability has a couple of ways to capture from a web page on iOS. The sharing extension works well but is very basic. There's no option to capture selected text as an annotation on the captured PDF. Even without this, it's a handy research tool for gathering web clips and annotating them back inside Notability.
There's also an in-app browser inside Notability. Tap the plus button to add an object and then choose web clip. This opens a browser window. But, as with the Safari sharing option, it's very basic. In fact, I find this option nearly useless as it captures an image of the website, an only the portion that fits within the view frame.
There are three export formats supported by Notability: PDF, RTF, and Notability. I always use PDF. But, if you want to share with another Notability user, use the native format to retain all of the features, including audio recordings. If I was sharing coursework notes with a friend, I'd probably use the Notability format. Most of my export is for long term archive, so I use PDF.
In addition to exporting single documents, Notability also provides support for combining multiple documents into a single export. This is a great way to take a lot of little notes and convert them into a single weekly archive to store in DEVONthink.
Notability also provides an option to combine documents without exporting as well as a quick name editing mode that saves a lot of time over editing one document title at a time.
Conclusion
I'm all in with Notability now. It's still a close race with GoodNotes but overall I think Notability is an easier app to use. I'd prefer if Notability could extract all of the text from a document without needing to manually select chunks of handwriting. I'm not sure what patent limits this but there are very few apps that have this option, with Nebo being the exception. I simply don't like the other features of Nebo enough.
Notability | Universal iOS | $10
GoodNotes | Universal iOS | $8
PDF Expert | Universal iOS | $10
Liquid Text | iPad | Free
Nebo | iPad | $6
Goodnotes 4 For Windows
I have been using both GoodNotes and Notability for a bit now. Control key symbol. Both purchases were made after recommendations and some research. Most people seem to pit these two against each other as if they are rivals. But I beg to differ. I'll tell you why at the end.
GoodNotes
What really attracted me to GoodNotes is the Zoom Window feature. It is second to none in its class. A zoomed in view bar of the selected line section of your page appears from the bottom. Here you can write as you normally do in quite comfortable large handwriting. What appears is a smaller version of your handwriting looking very neat. As you reach the end of the window line a greyed-out window appears at the beginning (left-hand side) showing you the end of your writing. To continue just write in the grey area. This means you can write continuously without breaking your writing speed. Very neat.
This implementation is better than Notability's version of the Zoom Window in which the greyed-out area (right-hand side) is already there and into which you write. After a long enough pause the writing moves to the front. It is this pause which breaks your writing speed. Notability's version isn't bad but GoodNotes's implementation is just better if not the best.
Openshot add voiceover. With this point said I would like to point out that even though they use the a similar kind of handwriting input system their purposes are different.
There are several feature differences between GoodNotes and Notability which make them different beasts (like tigers and lions). Firstly, GoodNotes has a TV-out AirPlay ‘hide use interface' feature for projectors and TV screens. This is a strange feature to have for a so-called 'note-taking' app. Sure you want to use it for annotating research PDFs but do you do it on-screen? Hardly.
For me this feature is what I use most for for filling in answers in textbook gap-fills or for highlight important parts of the textbook for students to see. In other words my students can focus on what I want them to focus on. But because the handwriting input system is so good I can use it as a whiteboard as well.
In short, the handwriting input system and on-screen mode are the selling points for GoodNotes.
Notability
So what about Notability? As I said they are like lions and wolves (as ferocious as each other but one is felid, the other canid). The core design to Notability are the Library and Notes Views. The Library View is designed to let you organise and navigate your notes easily and quickly. Looking rather like a folder window on your desktop even down to the collapsable divider tree makes visualising how you organise your notes easy to understand. Limited to three 'tiers' – divider, subject and notes – it is more than enough and keeps things uncomplicated. That only the divider tier is collapsable makes organising subjects easy. And that only notes go into folders means things are found quickly and organised neatly. notice also your notes are notes and not notebooks. This makes a huge difference to your thinking and approach to them. One no longer sees a need to fill in an entire notebook with that pretty cover but that they can be as long or short (more often short) as you want them. They are like loose leaf pages to be put into subject 'folders' when necessary.
So coming to notes as I said they are like loose leaf pages. The input method can be either handwriting and/or keyboard. Whereas GoodNotes aims to be handwriting input based Notability aims to be keyboard based. Why I say this is because this is where it excels. The entire page of a note can be used for continuous typing. This is unlike GoodNotes which uses only text boxes. Not only that the other objects (images, figures, webclips, stickies, etc) automatically work around – or rather wrap around – the text. In other words the text dominates the landscape with other things working around it. This is highly intuitive for digital text and is something well implemented by Notability. The fact that Notability chose to force the app to use the entire width of the iPad screen means Notability was never concerned with looking at the entire page as if it is some kind of PDF but as a note-taking tool.
This is thinking outside the box on the parts of both Notability and GoodNotes. GoodNotes is, in my opinion, suitable for projector/TV presentation-based of content effectively, while Notability is suitable for serious note-taking that keeps people focused on that. This is evidenced by the difference in their concentration of text input methods (handwriting vs. keyboard) and in the difference in uses (on projector screen vs. on tablet screen). Both are same but different, but both are just as effective and as deadly in the killer-app sense. Jw org research library.
Conclusion … use them for what they do best
These two apps were designed to serve different purposes. GoodNotes is great for on-screen productivity. While Notability is great for not-taking. They are both good at what they do and shouldn't thought of as doing the same work. GoodNotes fans will tell you it is great for handwriting and they are right. Notability fans will tell you it is great for taking notes and they are equally right. But whether you want to do your note-taking in handwriting or keyboard is the question. Personally I don't really need my notes to be handwritten. But I do love being able to handwrite on-screen all over my digitalised textbooks and workbooks so GoodNotes is my app of choice for classroom teaching productivity. But equally I do love the organisation and ease of note-taking with Notability so that is my app of choice for research productivity. No one ever said I had to either use GoodNotes or Notability. Why not use both for what they do best and not what you are told they are intended for.
[note: the original has been corrected from '… as tigers and lions …' to '… as lions to wolves …'. Both tigers are and lions are feline. Again I get this mixed up as I did as a child.]
