You can change the icon and color by tapping the edit button in the upper-left corner and then tapping the gear icon at the top of the right pane for a subject. (In Notability's organizational scheme, categories contain subjects, and subjects contain notes.) Each subject has an icon to the left and a color tab to the right. On the left pane are your categories and subjects, and on the wide right pane are your notes. Tap the library button in the upper-left corner of the screen to return to Notability's home screen. One lets you zoom in on an area of your note for finer control, and the other offers you a virtual and resizable palm rest should your palm interfere with your inking. Two buttons reside in the lower-right corner. These text boxes are handy because you can resize and reposition them on a note. The "+" button in the lower-left corner lets you add a photo, an image of a Web page, or text boxes of typed or written text. Three buttons sit at the bottom of the screen. One lets you create numbered or bulleted lists, and the other lets you change the style, size, and color of your font. The most helpful of theses buttons are the two in the middle. Notability uses the standard iPad keyboard, but places a row of its own buttons along the top. Tap the paper-icon button to the right of the tool buttons in the menu bar to select a paper type - color choices along with it being blank, lined, or grid-lined. You can customize the look of a note by tapping on either the pencil or highlighter tool button to choose the size of the point and color. There is also a microphone button that lets you record voice memos to attach to a document. To the immediate left of these tools buttons are undo and redo buttons. At its center are five tools buttons, which let you choose to type, write, highlight, erase, or select a section to cut, copy, delete, or restyle. In summary, a menu bar runs along the top of the screen. When you first launch the app, it opens to a document titled "Welcome to Notability." It's an interactive guide that shows how to navigate the app. If your note-taking needs require both methods, I think you'll find a lot to like about Notability. This 99-cent app combines note-taking via keyboard of apps such as Drafts and Outline+ with the inking capability of a sketch app such as Paper. If you have been back in school and are still searching for the right note-taking app for your iPad, Notability brings a lot to the table, or desk in a lecture hall, as it were.
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