Notability

app · in 7 sources (2018)

Sources by year: 2018: 7

Also named in the threads: Ali says more videos for students are coming: on motivation, productivity, how he makes notes though he doesn't like making notes, the apps on his phone and how he uses the iPad for medical school.

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

iPad Pro (10) · Anki (2) · University of Cambridge (5) · Cambridge (3) · spaced repetition (2) · active recall (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2018

• 2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali writes up his notes on an iPad Pro with the Notability app. — 00:29:52
• 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali uses an iPad Pro with Notability for all his note-taking and is in the planning stages of a video about it. — 00:07:10
• 2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — Ali: On a new topic Ali has no qualms about making a quick document of brief notes in Notability, the app he uses on his iPad. — 00:04:23
• 2018-05-28 · Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36 — Ali's palliative care topic was the final moments of life: he turned guidance from a hospice website into an eight-point checklist in Notability, his iPad note-taking app. — 00:04:32
• 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali scans lecture handouts into OneNote when he is typing, or into Notability when he is handwriting on the iPad. — 00:03:18
  • For the on-screen writing in his video on what happens after medical school, Ali wrote in Notability on the iPad: with a black background, the screen blending mode removes the black so it looks like writing on a transparent surface. — 00:05:30
  • Ali will film a video about Notability and how to use the iPad to take notes in medical school, at some point when he has a day to himself. — 00:20:46
• 2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — recommendation: Ali calls Notability the best note-taking app for the iPad if your laptop or desktop is a Mac; it is not available on Windows, so Windows users should use something like OneNote. — 00:04:19
  • Notability's dividers with subjects inside them are intuitive, Ali says, because that is how handwritten notes are naturally split into folders. — 00:04:48
  • Notability integrates with Google Drive and Dropbox; since all of Ali's life is on Google Drive, he imports PDFs from it straight into Notability. — 00:05:18
  • Ali prefers Notability to OneNote because it limits you to pages, which suits people used to paper, while OneNote's infinite canvas lets notes sprawl. — 00:05:47
• 2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: Charlotte, who has used her 2018 iPad for months, says she has never felt it slow; Ali noticed a very slight lag on button taps in Notability, such as changing pens and colours. — 00:04:54
• …and 11 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018