PhD Student Reviews Nebo App on iPad

[@MikeJSchindler]

Just installed the app and I'm going to start using it on my Pixel tablet with a USI 2.0 stylus. It's obvious you took no small amount of time or thoughtfulness in putting together your video, and I have no doubt that it is really going to save me, and the rest of the world that will use this app, a great deal of grief in pointing out some of the pitfalls to watch out for (e.g. syncing), and for setting expectations for people just starting to use the app - it's one thing to read about feature sets, but listening to someone describe their real world use of them adds a very helpful extra dimension. So thanks again for the time you spent on this and good luck with your PhD!

[@screwthishi5thing]

Thanks for taking the time to share your experience. I'm surprised by the issues you've found, since handwriting detection shortcuts have existed since the pre-smartphone days, and there are very simple implementations to let scholars access the greek alphabet, such as the inclusion of an optional "scientific" character set or pop-up dialogue. I'm only getting a master's in architecture, so my research workload is relatively light compared to a PhD's, but I've also tried switching to note-taking apps, and in addition to having found trouble with handwriting detection, having to manually tell the program I'm about to sketch is infinitely annoying, since the need to draw a building blueprint, section or detail is often unplanned for during a lecture (or a walk), and if it wasn't for that, formatting options are very limited (as you've experienced), as well as exporting and printing. My current solution is to have a lightweight and high battery life laptop (to avoid carrying the charger around) and an accompanying A4 or A5 sketchbook. I find that it's more versatile and reliable than current digital alternatives on the market. If I need to use anything I produced on paper in a digital format, I lose a few minutes scanning my notebook and transcribing my notes (I find going twice over anything I've written is good practice, anyway), though Apple's Preview can already detect text and make it selectable quite reliably. This video ended up being a compendium of what's still wrong with note-taking tech, especially for the cost. I'm nonetheless impressed by nebo's ability to detect cursive handwriting - shame it has to send all my notes to some random computer at their company cloud and then struggles to send them back, meaning I could just as well have spent that time scanning my notes. I'm certain we're all going to be writing on glass in a decade or two, but the fiddly bits get in the way of any serious users.

[@lifefundadosto1255]

Please show us how to write equations,and convert them to text.Thanks.

[@melanieweber1437]

WARNING everyone! Everywhere it says what great handwriting to text conversion there is. Yes, but NOWHERE does it say that it doesn't work on PDFs. And that's just what I needed it for, filling out worksheets that I have and then I wanted to convert to text. But it doesn't work. :( Why doesn't anyone say that? So frustrating.

[@pookiepats]

You could just use the built in pdf reader on ipad in that case since scribble works anywhere there is a text field

[@Lia-Kim]

Maybe it's changed since than but it does work now :D

[@pookiepats]

Lovely review ma’am

[@merlebrenner1057]

Great explanation. Very clear. How do you underline? It has turned bold. Thank you

[@harsharajbhattacharya]

I would really appreciate if you could kindly help out a bit. I recently came across this while trying to find an easier way to put pre written chapters( to be converted from handwritten notes) in my book(in latex). So, before it buy it could you give a small feedback? Does it have palm rejection while writing, and then it automatically recognizes as the capacitive contact is broken? Also, when I used the web version it converted all my equations almost perfectly(I am a physicist), so have they integrated these options in a better way, like shifting from notes to equations without making a box? Thanks in advance.

[@gnostie]

Hmm... I think I should give up on Nebo and make the most of my Rocketbook and its OCR capabilities. At least with Rocketbook it doesn't lose one's work.

[@raylee3370]

Hi , can i have an answer on nebo? If i import a pdf and i want to annotate, and let's say that i'm in page 20 if i wanto to add a blank page after to write can i do that? (so page 21 will become 22 ecc) I'ts the only thing that block me to buy this app

[@lucatmyscript]

Unfortunately it’s not yet available in Nebo.

[@MelodyDobrinin]

What Luc said 😊

[@vikrraal]

You can do that in Microsoft journal app. Then import the whole to one note and transcribe it.

[@arm8636]

It is now possible since last month I think

[@agersolt818]

I like Nebo for infinite canvas

[@gaofengni3246]

how on earth can nebo not understand your x 😉

[@video724de]

She's a "lefty" and users an "unusual" direction to put the "strike through" - just a wild guess …