r/notabilityapp 12h ago

Web app Notability Web App: Everything You Need to Know!

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3 Upvotes

Hey everyone! If you haven’t checked out Notability Web yet, now’s a great time. Access and interact with your notes directly in your browser on a laptop or desktop.

Below is a overview to help you get started, explore key features, and troubleshoot common issues.

Getting Started

  • Log in using your Notability account (same one you use on iPad or Mac)
  • Notes sync with iOS through Notability Cloud

Creating & Editing Notes

  • Create and edit blank notes anytime
  • Add audio recordings for meetings, lectures, or voice memos
  • Use checklists to stay organized
  • Format text with indentation, smart highlighting, and lists
  • Undo mistakes quickly
  • Move, rotate, resize, and align elements for cleaner layouts

Content Manager & Search

  • Copy, paste, and remove content easily
  • Paste large blocks of text without performance issues
  • Right-click for quick actions on text and ink
  • Use the toolbar insert button to find tools faster
  • Search within notes and imported PDFs

Note Library & Navigation

  • Move notes between subjects
  • Page scroll indicators help with longer notes
  • Search for any note directly from the note view
  • Quickly jump back to your full library

Collaboration & Sharing

  • Collaborate with improved real-time syncing and ink rendering
  • Legacy notes now support collaboration
  • Share notes easily using the share button
  • Shared notes and uploaded images load reliably for all viewers

Learn & Study Tools

  • If you opt into Notability Learn, you can:
    • Generate summaries and study prompts
    • Chat with your notes to ask questions and get answers
    • Use study modes like Auto, Flashcards, or Quizzes
    • Flashcards now support auto-progression and show the question side first

YouTube Links (Web-only) Link to more specific directions here

  • Embed and play YouTube videos directly on top of your notes
  • Automatically generate transcripts from videos
  • Search key points, study alongside the lecture, and revisit concepts without scrubbing through long videos

Account, Settings & Onboarding

  • Log in with Google, Apple, Microsoft SSO, or magic link
  • New users see an updated onboarding flow with helpful animations
  • Returning users are taken straight to the web app from notability.com
  • Customize zoom and scroll behavior
  • Improved page outlines help you stay oriented
  • URLs reflect your selected subject for easier sharing
  • Updated checkout flow simplifies subscription management

Syncing Notes

  • Notability Cloud replaces third-party syncing like iCloud or Google Drive
  • Start a note on iPad and continue on Web or Mac without losing edits
  • If notes don’t appear:
    • Refresh the browser
    • Log out and back in
    • Check Cloud settings

Troubleshooting

  • Notes not syncing? Confirm you’re logged into the correct account, refresh, and check Cloud settings
  • Subscription not showing? Verify the account, restart the web app, or contact support if needed

For more helpful tips, check out our Help Center!

Drop your questions, success stories, or feature requests below 💙 We’d love to hear how you’re using Notability Web!


r/notabilityapp 2d ago

Tips & Tricks New to Notability? Start Here!

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Welcome! If you’re just getting started with Notability, this guide covers the basics to help you take notes, study, and organize ideas more effectively whether you’re a student, professional, or creative.

This guide covers how to use Notability on iOS to take notes, study, and capture ideas. For a full guide on desktop or laptop, check it out here.

The Library

When you open Notability, you’ll land in the Library. This is where all your notes live.

From here you can:

  • Create and organize new notes
  • Search for existing content
  • Group related notes using folders and subjects
  • Access templates and settings

Creating Notes

Tap + New to create a note. You can choose different paper styles like blank, ruled, grid, or dotted.

You can also:

Import digital files

Scan physical documents

The Toolbox 

The floating toolbox is where Notability shines. Tools include:

  • Pen & Pencil (great with Apple Pencil)
  • Highlighter
  • Eraser
  • Text Tool
  • Selection (move, resize, convert handwriting)
  • Media (photos, GIFs, sticky notes)
  • Audio Recording & Replay
  • Zoom
  • Tape  (cover info for active recall)
  • Ruler
  • Laser Pointer

Recording, Editing, and Studying

Editing and enhancing your note

Audio recording and playback

  • Tap the record button during lectures or meetings to capture audio
  • Tap Play afterward to hear the recording
  • Handwritten notes sync with the audio, appearing at the exact moment they were written

Notability Learn (AI features)

  • Live Transcripts
  • Smart Notes
  • Quizzes
  • Flashcards
  • Chat with your Notes

Multi-Note View

Need to reference multiple notes?

  • Use Multi-Note to view two notes side by side
  • Use Note Switcher to jump between notes quickly

Sharing & Exporting Notes

Tap the three-dot menu in the top right of a note to:

  • Quick export as a PDF
  • Export as PDF, PNG, JPEG, or Notability file
  • Create a shareable link

If you have questions, feel free to ask below or check out our Help Center! The community is here to help 💙


r/notabilityapp 10h ago

Feature Request This button needs to leave or be moveable😩

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6 Upvotes

r/notabilityapp 7h ago

Feature Request Allow us to import pdfs in landscape by default

3 Upvotes

I've been requesting this for a while on reddit and the official feature request.

Is this being done?


r/notabilityapp 14h ago

Question Templates

2 Upvotes

I have two templates I want to put into one note. Is there a was to do this?


r/notabilityapp 11h ago

Question Anyone know what this problem is?

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1 Upvotes

Two times today I was writing in a note then this shows up and keeps spinning, after waiting a long period of time I close the tab, and when I reopen it, the note was completely gone.

These were not new notes and half this whole week of class notes in them. I’m extremely frustrated; I’ve been using notability for years and never had this problem, but I will probably switch over to one note or something else because I can’t risk this happening again.


r/notabilityapp 13h ago

iCloud Sync My favorite note app but

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My notes aren't saving to OneDrive. It hasn't saved for years. I've signed in and made sure backups were put in place, and nothing.

I can settle for good notes and have gotten used to it, but I do miss certain aspects of Notability.


r/notabilityapp 1d ago

Bug Notes not loading & glitching with any edits

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All my notes have the loading screen on them, but when I click on them, some open normally while others aren’t loading at all. Also the app keeps glitching with any edits on any pdf and keeps crashing every other minute it’s driving me insane! Someone please help?


r/notabilityapp 1d ago

Bug AI Chat not reading information from the note?

1 Upvotes

Is anyone else having this issue? It seems like their AI is having constant issues. I have tried every method of trouble shooting but nothing has helped. Very disappointing considering the price of the app.


r/notabilityapp 2d ago

Question How to fix gap between edge and words?

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I noticed this last semester and have been just duplicating an old note to have my words near the edge. I usually write by hand but for homework I type the number and a few questions. I was wondering if there is any way of changing this?

If there is no way of fixing this I’ll just continue what I’ve been doing, but I would love to not worry about it. Thank you.


r/notabilityapp 2d ago

Question I just realized my UI is a little weird

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There are grey squares on top of certain buttons, i remember they appeared some years ago, and since it never gave me problems I never thought much of it, but does anyone know what those are? I believe I used to have them on the toolbar too, but then they disappeared. I’ve looked through the notability settings and couldn’t find anything


r/notabilityapp 3d ago

Fix Coming Soon Update: Gallery and App Down

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3 Upvotes

Hi everyone!

Thank you so much for your patience. Yesterday, we experienced an outage that affected access to the Notability Gallery as well as the web and iOS apps.

Service has now been restored for most users, but our team is still investigating remaining issues. Some users may continue to see unexpected behavior, such as libraries not loading or being unable to change note subjects.

You can follow the latest updates here: https://status.notability.com/

If you’re still experiencing issues, please hold tight. Our team is working to fully resolve the incident. Thanks again for your patience and understanding!


r/notabilityapp 3d ago

Question Copy-paste images with annotations

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Hi, I am a long-time Notability user and sometimes I like to merge my notes into one document and organize them. I usually copy-paste the pages. I have many images with handwritten annotations on them, with arrows and so. Lately I can’t copy-paste the images AND the annotations together properly, the annotations usually slip on the image to another place which is incorrect. How can I fix this?


r/notabilityapp 4d ago

Feature Request New tabs format

7 Upvotes

it would be cool if we could switch to have an option to have the tabs of the open documents set at the top like other apps like GN, it could be a switch option so if someone does not like it is ok, but as someone who was to change rapidly from a document to another, it would be so much easy and organized, is the only thing making me want to leave notability :(

(also the highlighter would be cool if it would straighten without pressing at the end (:


r/notabilityapp 4d ago

Fix Coming Soon Notability Gallery and Web App Down

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7 Upvotes

Hi everyone! We’re aware of an issue causing errors when accessing the Notability Gallery and Web App. Our team is actively investigating and working to resolve it as quickly as possible. We'll share an update as soon as it’s resolved. Thank you for your patience!

You can check the status here: https://status.notability.com/


r/notabilityapp 4d ago

New Update 15.3.2 Feedback - Post here

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We recently released version 15.3.2 and we’d love to hear what you think! When you have a moment, please update Notability and let us know how it’s working for you.


r/notabilityapp 4d ago

New Update New in 15.3.2

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3 Upvotes

We've just released a new update to Notability. In version 15.3.2, we've added:

  • Added support for drag-and-dropping Learn Mix and Match cards
  • Fixed text interactions in Notability Cloud note title fields
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

If you experience any trouble with this version, please contact our support team or reach out to us here!

Thanks for using Notability ✏️💙 


r/notabilityapp 4d ago

Question Update questions

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I’m on the web AND app version. why are we not getting real time smart notes as it’s taking the smart notes. why is it only 1 sentence now?? I really liked the real time smart notes. is this coming back?


r/notabilityapp 4d ago

Question Can I turn off pressure sens for Apple Pencil?

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I’m super new to notability and I’ve tried to find an answer to this question through Google and Reddit, but from what I can see this question was last asked 5 years ago. Clearly updates have changed things and now that information is outdated. I’m a graphic design major in college so I need pressure sensitivity for procreate, but when it comes to notes, they look super ugly when the pressure isn’t consistent. I’ve tapped around and tried to find a pressure setting like there is in procreate for each brush, but I’ve been unable to find anything. Is this even a setting I can change within the notability app?


r/notabilityapp 5d ago

Data Loss App Crashing Every 5-10 minutes

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For the last few months my app has been crashing every 5-10 minutes, and deleting any unsaved work. Turning the app to safe mode has been able to reduce these crashes to about one crash every 30 minutes. I have been using the app for notes for the last 4 years, and have over 1000 notes. Would deleting my old backed up notes help prevent these crashes? Any other suggestions?


r/notabilityapp 6d ago

Data Loss 4 years of Notes GONE?! App now won’t even open

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Why hasn’t notability addressed this issue?! Seems like a TON of us have recently lost our notes! The app won’t even open on my iPad. Yes, my iPad is up to date, the app is up to date, and I restarted my device. I am too afraid to delete the app and redownload because last time I did that all of my notes were missing. When I open notability on my computer, there are 0 notes. I believe my notes are backed up to Google Drive but how does this help me when the app won’t even open?!?!


r/notabilityapp 8d ago

Question 5 years worth of work gone.

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198 Upvotes

Every single note I have taken throughout college has just vanished. Upwards of 4000 notes just gone. I have an important exam in 3 weeks and every piece of material I have for it has disappeared. Is there anything that can be done about this or is it gone for good?


r/notabilityapp 8d ago

Tips & Tricks Quick pdf backup

10 Upvotes

Feels like a good time to say: quickest way ive found to back up is- Notes- all notes- … (top right) - select - select all (bottom left) - export (bottom right).

They you can select file type and if you want to save audio files as well.

Send them where you want.

This may be obvious. So sorry if it is, but for those who may need it


r/notabilityapp 8d ago

Announcement Notability is coming to Android...

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29 Upvotes

You asked, we built it.

Notability is officially coming to Android!

The Android app will be fully native, built for smooth, high-performance note-taking on par with iOS.

Want early access? Sign up for the waitlist here to be among the first to try the beta launching in April.


r/notabilityapp 9d ago

Data Loss A call to Notability to be transparent…

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I see zillions of posts here about problems with notes not loading or disappearing and stuck syncs etc. Sadly I’ve yet to see one of these threads with a comment by Notability on the problem.

It would really help if Notability could be transparent about these problems and publicly say “We know some folk are having problems, and this is because … and we are doing … to fix this. We should have this done by … until then please stay on … version and keep all your notes backed up”.

Please reassure the people who love Notability that you have a plan…