I’m having a problem with Notability’s Google Drive backup and hoping for advice.

Here’s what’s happening:

• I have all my notes on my iPad, organized in folders/subjects in Notability.
• Auto-backup to Google Drive is turned on, but the notes are split between two different Drive folders.
  • One folder has older notes (from end of 2024 prior) but some of them seem messed up or incomplete.
  • The other folder has newer notes (from start of 2025 to now) which are accurate and currently syncing fine.
  • There seems to have been a gap of about a week where notes didn’t back up at all.
• I’d like to get all of my notes, including the old ones, to back up into the new folder, preserving my Notability folder structure.
• I’m hesitant to disconnect or reset anything, because I don't want notes to no longer be on the iPad.

My questions:

1. Is there a way to merge the old notes into the new Google Drive folder while keeping folder organization?
2. Should I just export manually folder by folder, or is there a better approach?
3. Has anyone else experienced notes skipping or splitting between Drive folders, and how did you fix it safely?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

I just got a pop up tonight that the notability privacy policy had changed, so I clicked on it out of curiosity. To summarize, this is what I found.

Notability will collect the following types of data about you (anything in bold is data they can sell to advertisers):

• profile data, such as full name, email, and unique identifiers
• payment data
• device/ip data
• web analytics, such as the date and time of visit and links clicked in emails
• consumer demographic data, such as age and date of birth
• geolocation data, such as ip-based location information
• sensory data, such as audio recording of you and/or your environment.
• identifying information in your synced data, such as notes, texts, handwriting, pictures, documents, audios
• other identifying information if you voluntarily provide it

I’m a bit concerned as to why they collect identifying information in synced notes, considering they don’t even provide a notes backup solution to my knowledge outside of iCloud/other drive services. Additionally, I don’t understand why they sell any data, particularly because they’re a paid notes app.

If anyone wants to read the full policy, it’s here: https://notability.com/privacy#Categories%20of%20Personal%20Data%20We%20Collect

Guys, I need dicount code please.

I don't know why folders and subfolders aren't good enough anymore that we need to reinvent this wheel, but here we are.

A lot of my stuff is 1 layer deep, so "subjects" works fine for that. But if I want to do something multi layered I need to turn that top layer into a divider which then doesn't match anything else, or have everything with a divider and some generic (but unique) named subject under each divider because notes have to exist in a subject (or can't exist within solely a divider).

I just can't wrap my head around how this works for anyone, but I'm sure it must, so I'm looking for inspiration on how y'all use it?

Thank you.

Has anyone been able to use images in notability learn or is it not a feature yet? I’m asking as I wanted to use it to help me identify features and instead it gave me a textblurb about what I was trying to identify.

Just wanted to let everyone know that if you use the desktop app and you don't pay for Plus, there is a permanent ad that is impossible to close. Awesome! Thanks notability!

What is the name of the song in the actual YT spot? It's great.

Does anyone know when we can expect the new academic planner? My classes start next week so I've been eagerly awaiting it.

I’m coming from GoodNotes but right now they have SO MANY FKING BUGS and it is really really bothering me!

I don’t want to learn a new such as Notabity (especially as a heavy user) but I’m worried if I don’t sooner, that the bugs won’t be fixed on good notes and that they will get worse

Anyone else experience being downgraded to Notability starter despite being grandfathered via family purchase sharing?

It wasn't until the app updated that I suddenly no longer get Notability classic and restoring purchases does not function. I am still in the same Apple Family and downloading it from their purchases doesn't go through.

Support says family sharing never worked but it was working for the past 6 years until this month...

So I see sometimes there are wavy lines and also the Apple pen skips pixels in the app. Any solution to that?

So, I am using notability for more than 4 years, but I miss few features which will be really useful for many. Those are the essential features. I will list then out

1. Scribble to Erase : when we are writing something and want to erase some part or words. Always selecting the eraser to delete some part will reduce or affect the flow of writing. Instead, if we get scribble to Erase feature, we will just scribble on the part and hold it for a second and that part will be erased. This is just a small feature but this will be useful for many and increase the comfort.

2. Link pages or websites : This is must needed feature in Notability. Like, if i am writing about some topic, and it is connected to some other topic in different notebook or in some online website, we need an option to connect this topic with that notebook or website. This will be very useful for students, teachers, etc.

3. Layers : like if we want to use a table for repeated number of times, we don't have to draw it every time. Instead, we can draw that in a seperate layer, and duplicate it without the contents in that table. This is just an example for usage.

4. Marking Important Topic : like a feature, we mark the highlight the important topic and favourite it for that notebook. This will be useful even while having OCR. Sometimes we forget the topic name to search, so, if we mark the important topic as favourite ,we can see favourite topics by opening the notebook.

Compared to ocr features, these all are simple features but very very useful. I have seen many people asking for these features and yet there is no update regarding this feature. Kindly requesting the team to consider these useful feature for notability's user's comfort. These are must needed feature and it will increase the users of notability even more. As a CA student, I have mentioned the important features for my usage. Kindly consider the request by a 4 year pro subscription user.

What’s the best way to deal with sweaty hands when taking notes on an iPad a16 with a USB-C Apple Pencil? I usually rest my hand on the screen although I'm not left-handed while writing. I’m thinking of getting a drawing glove or an Apple Pencil sleeve (both priced around €10), and I wanted to know if you have any recommendations available on Amazon EU. I already have a case with a holder for the Apple Pencil, so if I go with a sleeve, it needs to be as thin as possible. Do you think a glove would be enough, or should I get a sleeve too?

I read on Reddit that someone used matte and paperlike protector on their ipad to fix the problem, but I don't feel comfortable with them, so feel free to recommend good no paper-like or matte screen protectors that can help with sweaty hands too (~20€).

Hi, I recently bought an iPad A16 and use it heavily for taking notes with my usb-c Apple Pencil. I'm looking for a good screen protector which doesn't alter apple pencil sensibility and performance — preferably not a paper-like or matte one since those tend to wear down the tip. I found lot of them on amazon but they seems to be too slippery or retain lots of fingerprints seeing the reviews; I'm seeking for something similiar to the experience without screen protectors. My budget is around 16€, and I'm based in Italy. Could you recommend some options available on Amazon EU/IT? Thanks~

If you can, suggest a good case (around 20€) with pencil holder too :)

I’ll be writing normally, and then as soon as I put the pencil to the screen, these giant random lines pop up. Doesn’t go away if you close the app, you have to reset the entire iPad to stop it from re occurring. Why does this keep happening? Anybody know any fixes. And yes, I’m actually paying for this app, and it’s screwing with my note taking because it’s impossible to stop it from occurring. Help me please.

We've just released a new update to Notability. In version 14.12.10, we've added:

• Stability improvements, bug and crash fixes

If you experience any trouble with this version, please contact our support team! Details on how to contact support here.

Thanks for using Notability ✏️💙

My textbook PDF randomly just went completely blank. This has happened before in that the pdf background wasn’t there but my annotation were. This time the whole note is blank. I don’t what to do, how do I fix this?

As i move towards the highschool and the beginning of College, I am thinking of Getting a Macbook, Because WE ALL KNOW that School computers suck (especially in the US public schools).

My main incentive behind it is that a MacBook will last me throughout college and be the most preferable for study. As you all know Notability is kind off the life hack when it comes to notes and just aking life easier overall. As much as i love it on my phone, the MacBooks don't allow apple pencil to pair, and also not having touchscreen altogether making life harder.

i wanted to know what you guys think, please advice.

Upgraded by iPad Pro to the new OS. Erased all my notes, and re-imported all the notes from iCloud. Too about 1h yesterday for ~1600 notes. All was working fine. Today, back to the spinning symbols and "This note is still downloading" for ~30% of all my notes. Notability has become totally unreliable for me.

I've tried updating the app, allowing access in my settings, making sure the "T" was selected. Nothing has worked. Is there any other options I can troubleshoot without hindering my productivity? Or would going over to Goodnotes be a better option with these bugs?

I've been using Notability since the beginning and I'm paying for the subscription to support this app, as it is very useful for my everyday life.

Today I got myself a new iPad Pro and of course the first app I want to install is Notability. When launching the app, it requires me to "Sign in to Notability", with no way to skip this screen.

I don't want to log in as I don't need any of the functionality it offers and also for privacy reasons. It is also not in-line with their own Terms of Service:

You can use the Notability mobile application without registering any account with us.

Am I missing some obvious way to skip this login screen? Is this a bug?

I have several BnB “books” which are just 5-6 slides put in one page,I have them on my iPad as pdf,is it possible to merge 5-10 pages (30-60 slides) in 1 page? So instead of reading 40 pages I only read 4-8. How do I merge multiple pages together so that they take minimal space and are arranged perfectly. I do not want to merge so that it is just a very long vertical page,that is pointless,I want to push as many slides as possible into 1 page. And before someone tells me my idea is nonsensical BnB slides have so little words,very little content,100 slides of BnB are equivalent to 10 page textbook

I just got the subscription to be able to convert my scribble to font to look nicer, but whenever I do the font text colour keeps switching to black automatically as soon as I start writing. This sucks cause I like to write my notes on black paper.

Any advice on how to fix this?

I want to switch to notability so bad. I just got the beta for goodnotes and the new ui is horrendous, and I've always had battery life problems with goodnotes, along with the fact that it takes up a lot of space on my ipad. The ONLY thing that stops me from switching to notability is the fact that there are so many posts that complain about the horrible icloud sync with this app, and the fact that so many people are losing their important exam notes just weeks before they have to take them. Is there any fix for this? Are the people who complain about this problem at fault, or is it the app that has problems. Should I switch to notability or stay with goodnotes?

TLDR: Looking into possibly switching to notability from goodnotes due to high battery consumption and new ui, but icloud sync problems and hearing about people losing their notes is holding me back. Is there a fix to the icloud problems or a way to fix it? Or should I just stay with goodnotes 6.

I have some bug in notability, not apple note, goodnotes.

I don’t know this error..