Notability

Notability is a full-featured note-taking app for iOS that helps students take notes they'll want to review, revisit, and actively use. If there's a chart in the textbook they want to reference quickly, they can snap a picture and add it to their notes. If a concept is better explained by drawing a picture, they can do it right there, too. On a single page of notes, students can type, write, draw, highlight, record audio, cut, paste, and even insert content captured from websites. When they're finished, students can organize notes for later easy access. The audio recording feature is especially flexible. If you play from the start of the recording, the notes you took darken and fill in as the recording continues, letting you see the notes appear as you wrote them. Similarly, you can tap on any point of the note (whether it's writing, typing, or a photo) and jump to that point in the audio recording.

Students can also use Notability to organize their notes, tagging them by color and organizing them by tags or categories. Users can also share their notes across a variety of platforms (like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box), via email or iTunes, or across devices through the Notability app itself. 

Notability equips all students to take high-impact notes. While note-taking may be a way for students to get down important information, not all students benefit from the note-taking process. Notability recognizes that students have different learning needs and note-taking preferences. Students can choose to record as they talk or record their teachers' lectures and make minimal written notes ("test review starts here!") to help them jump to appropriate points in the audio recording when they revisit their notes later. Students can also record themselves sharing key information or record a conversation with a teacher when they received feedback or reviewed for an assessment. Learners who respond better to images or drawings can add photographs and drawings to their notes, while learners who excel with charts and diagrams can create such images with a stylus or with their finger. 

Keep in mind that not all of these options work for everyone, and it might be overwhelming if you try to use them all at once. It's up to students and their teachers to develop thoughtful, efficient strategies for using the app's many capabilities in the most efficient, most meaningful way possible.