Notability has an active developer who seems to be active in the education community. It has a smaller footprint - its update file is 66MB, compared to 260 MB for the OneNote update file. Notability, on the other hand, seems to be very quick and nimble. One example - when you cut-and-paste a handwritten selection to move it down the page, there is a bit of a delay. It works well, but there are a few minor friction points. OneNote appears to have myriads of features, many I have not tried. Notability syncs with iCloud, but also saves to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box or WebDAV. OneNote plays well in Microsoft's ecosystem - syncs with OneDrive, for example. For this particular feature, OneNote caught up with Notability with today's update. Stray marks will not appear when you touch the screen with your hand or finger. By disabling the 'Draw with touch' feature (under the little hand/stylus icon in the Draw mode), only the Pencil will mark on the page. Today's update for OneNote greatly improves the support for Apple Pencil. I'm glad I waited.Ĭlick to expand.Hard choice, pros and cons for both.

None of them were perfect, or even good enough. Over the last several months I spent many hours reading and watching videos of various stylus reviews. It's more elegant to do this using the IPP/Pencil than using paper and pen. While taking notes with the IPP and Pencil, I quickly realized that I could just jot down 'shorthand' placeholders or even just the first letter of the word or item, then go back later and insert the correct text using either the pen or keyboard. When taking handwritten notes of lectures over the years I have always been frustrated that I couldn't quite keep up during the particularly interesting or 'meaty' parts of the lectures. I like to select lined paper for the background - helps to keep things neater. Will probably never use paper and pen again for notes.Īs someone mentioned above, select the 'Draw' function in OneNote to use the Apple Pencil. Even though I had never used the Pencil before (and I'm still learning), this experience went very well. I arbitrarily chose OneNote to take notes for an all-day on-line investment conference from Morningstar last Saturday, all using the Apple Pencil on the new 9.7' iPad Pro. I've tried OneNote and Notability so far.

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