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Notability records the lecture and syncs it to your notes, which is genuinely clever. Typally puts your words into Notability the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Notability's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.Audio recording synchronised to handwriting, so tapping a note jumps to what was being said. Some versions offer transcription of recordings.
The recording solves capture and creates a new problem: two hours of audio you have to listen to again. Nobody relistens to a whole lecture, so the recording quietly becomes an archive nobody opens.
In practice people use it for: Typed notes alongside handwriting, post-lecture summaries, and the written version of what the recording contains.
There is no Notability extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
One install, one sign-in. Nothing else to configure.
Click first. Typally types into Notability wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Notability is mainly an iPad and Mac app. Typally covers macOS and Windows, so the iPad workflow relies on Apple's own dictation.
Typally covers the written summary that a recording cannot replace. Notability syncs audio to your handwriting beautifully, and almost nobody relistens to two hours of lecture — a two-minute spoken summary the same day is what revision actually uses. Typally is a Windows and macOS app, so this is the desktop half of the workflow.
A student stops relying on the recording and starts speaking a two-minute summary at the end of each lecture. The recordings remain unplayed, which is fine, because the summaries are what revision actually uses.
Use the recording as a safety net, not a substitute. A spoken summary written the same day is what you will actually revise from.
Notability is mainly an iPad and Mac app. Typally covers macOS and Windows, so the iPad workflow relies on Apple's own dictation.
Some versions offer transcription of recordings. That is transcribing the lecturer, not you composing notes.
Rarely. Recordings are seldom relistened to. A short written summary is what survives.
Yes — its text fields accept input from a system-level tool.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
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