Notability is a powerful note-taking app available for iOS and macOS that allows users to take handwritten or typed notes, annotate PDFs, record audio, and more. With so many features, keeping your notes organized is critical for efficiency. One helpful organization feature in Notability is the ability to bookmark important pages or sections in your notes.
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Why Bookmark in Notability
Bookmarks allow you to easily flag important pages or sections in your Notability notes for quick access later. Some reasons you may want to bookmark in Notability include:
- Mark key concepts or important summaries for studying
- Highlight particularly useful reference material
- Flag important action items or next steps
- Designate pages you frequently need to refer back to
- Quickly navigate longer notes or annotated documents
How to Add and View Bookmarks
Adding bookmarks in Notability is simple. Follow these steps:
- Open the Notability note you want to bookmark a page in
- Navigate to the page you want to bookmark
- Tap the small gray ribbon icon in the upper right corner of the page thumbnail
- This ribbon icon will turn red to indicate the page is now bookmarked
To view all your bookmarked pages:
- Tap the menu (3 lines) icon
- Tap the red bookmark icon
- This will display thumbnails of only your bookmarked pages for quick access
Tips for Effective Bookmarking
Here are some tips to utilize Notability bookmarks most effectively:
- Use bookmarks sparingly – Only bookmark your absolute most critical or frequently accessed pages. Bookmarking too many pages reduces the usefulness of this feature.
- Name your bookmarks – You can rename your Notability bookmarks to provide more context on what each bookmarked page contains. This helps when accessing them later.
- Review bookmarks before exams – Bookmarks make it easy to quickly review your most important condensed study materials in one place.
- Bookmark action items – Use bookmarks to flag pages listing next steps or important tasks you need to revisit.
- Color code bookmarks – You can apply colors to your bookmarks for quick visual organization and prioritization.
Other Notability Organization Features
In addition to bookmarks, Notability has other helpful features for organizing your notes including:
Dividers and Subjects
Notability’s dividers and subjects allow you to categorize your notes into logical sections and groupings. For example, you can create subject dividers for different classes or use divider tabs to separate topics or modules within a subject.
Tags
Tags offer another way to organize and filter notes. You can create custom tags like “Important” or “Exam Prep” and then search or filter based on tags to quickly access related content.
Outline View
Outline view displays a text-based overview of all headings in your Notability notes, allowing you to navigate and jump between sections with ease.
Search
Notability’s search tool allows you to instantly search within your handwritten or typed notes to quickly find what you need.
Conclusion
Effectively using bookmarks and Notability’s other organization features takes your note-taking to the next level. Bookmarks provide easy access to your most critical content while dividers, subjects, tags, outline view, and search give you flexibility to structure your notes in a way that fits your personal notetaking style. Mastering these tools will help you save time, study more efficiently, and unlock the full power of Notability.
I have over 5 years of experience using Notability for note-taking and content creation as a student and writer. The tips provided reflect the best practices I’ve learned for leveraging Notability’s robust organizational tools to maximize productivity. Let me know if you have any other questions!
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