what is up guys karma medic here and
welcome back to another dose today i'm
gonna be walking you through my
notability app which is the best
handwriting notes app on the ipad by far
i'm gonna be walking you through all the
notes that i've made here on the left
hand side over the last three years i'm
to show you how it is that i actually
write these notes here in notability and
also show you some of the really cool
new features including this gallery
which is where you can share and upload
your own notes to the community and you
can download notes from the community
into your own notability as well anyways
we'll get into that later in the video
and a big thank you to notability for
sponsoring this video you know i've been
endorsing notability and telling pretty
much anyone who asks me anything about
the ipad to make sure they download it
for about three years now and so when
they reached out to me and asked if they
could sponsor one of my videos i said
yes absolutely let's get right into it
so one of the questions that i'd often
get asked when making my old ipad and
notability videos which i'll put
somewhere up over here is is notability
worth the nine dollars or however much
it costs and i'd always say yes because
i think this app is worth its weight in
gold but you don't have to worry about
that anymore because notability is
completely free seriously if you have an
ipad or an iphone or a macbook download
this app it's been completely
life-changing for me over the last few
years and now it's completely free if
you want all the extra features then you
can pay for an annual subscription which
is like 12 a year which in my opinion is
like infinite value but anyways that's
it for the cost of the app all right now
let's get into the app so this is the
icon over here the new update just makes
it look even better than it already did
but this is kind of what it looks like
where on the left hand side you have all
of your
folders you can say so each one of these
little toggles is a folder kind of the
equivalent of one of these this is a set
of notes that i wrote over a four year
period at the university of toronto it
kind of looks like this on the inside
extremely extremely dense tons of
information in there anyways one of
those folders is kind of like this over
here let's say human development or
supporting life and then within each of
those folders i have different subjects
so i have cardiovascular disease
respiratory disease one and two
anesthetics and drugs renal disease and
then within those subjects let's take
cardiovascular disease for instance i
have all of my different lecture notes
case-based discussions tutorials lecture
slides etc within there and this kind of
demonstrates the first thing that i
absolutely love about notability and
what i think has completely changed how
it is that i take notes and store notes
and review notes over time is this sort
of organizational hierarchy where you
have the big folder then the subject
then the notes within that so it makes
it really easy to find information that
i did in my second year of medical
school here mbbs2 i'm now a final year
medical student so that was quite a long
time ago but anyways now the new update
has allowed us to add dividers within
dividers which i cannot explain how
excited i am for that i've i've wanted
this in notability for so long but we'll
get into that in a bit moving on before
i get carried away this is kind of what
one of my typical lecture notes will
look like now before you leave me a
comment down below letting me know how
messy my handwriting is i know but i can
read it and that's all that matters so i
have kind of the title of the lecture
here in the middle in light pink and
then i surround that in three columns of
information and each one of these
columns will have different subheadings
so here we have the cardiac cycle and
the ecg and then underneath it all the
information that's relevant to that
subtitle as you can see i use a ton of
colors to sort of signify and denote
different types of information things
that have come up on previous exams that
are likely to come up important
information lists you know i have a
whole color coding system i'll leave a
link to a video that i did about that up
over here but this is kind of what one
of my lecture notes looks like so this
over here on the left mbbs2 are all the
notes that i made in my second year of
medical school and then mbbs 3 is all
the notes i made in my third year of
medical school etc etc now what you'll
notice if you look into my notes is that
i tend to use a lot of images i tend to
take a lot of lecture slides or door
diagrams and i annotate them and this
was one of those things that was a
complete life changer for me when it
came to taking notes at university using
notability i could really easily take
this image from one of my lecture slides
copy paste it into my notes and then
annotate on top of it this was just
mind-boggling coming from a laptop with
just a keyboard and a screen where
something like this would have been
impossible and since i'm a really visual
learner as you can probably tell by how
i have everything organized here on the
page you know this type of studying this
type of learning was really beneficial
for me and just to demonstrate how easy
this is let's go to one of my lecture
slides over here let's say i want to
copy this image open up the lasso tool
make it a square copy use this note
switcher to go back to the note that i
was just at find a blank space paste and
there we go so now i can have this image
inside of my lectures then i can
annotate and say that this over here is
the classic butterfly rash seen in sle
something else you can do is take images
directly from the internet so let's say
i wanted to google an image of
not cats like i have over there let's
say i want to google something like
lupus rash and then i can take any of
these images and literally drag and drop
them straight from google
into my note-taking app
can we just appreciate this for a second
this is
mind-boggling and i used to do this all
the time back when i was sitting down in
lectures and taking my lecture notes i
found this extremely extremely helpful
anyways i think that's enough of me
showing you my notes we'll take a look
at some more later on in the video so
last year when i was studying for the
big usmle step one exam i took an
infinite amount of notes and i would not
wish this level of studying upon anyone
so as part of studying for this exam i
had to learn a whole bunch of drugs and
kind of what categories they fall into
what mechanisms of actions they have
whatever and this is kind of how i would
organize them so i had sketchy medical
farm was the big folder and then within
that subject of cardiovascular and renal
so the heart and the kidneys because i
couldn't make another subdivider i had
1.0 was heart failure drugs and so we
had 1.1 1.2 those were both related to
heart failure then 2.0 was diuretics 2.1
2.2 2.3 2.4 were all related to
diuretics but now with the dividers
within dividers let's see what we can do
i'm gonna make another divider and i'm
gonna call it cardio
vascular and renal so now i can add a
subject into cardiovascular and renal
and we can call that one heart failure
move that down here and so now i can
move all of these heart failure notes
into the heart failure subheading oh
i've been waiting years for notability
to include this amazing amazing amazing
then to organize the rest of these notes
i can of course include another subject
and we will call that one diuretics move
that into cardiovascular and renal move
diuretics loop diuretics fatigues
and potassium spraying diuretics as well
so now within cardiovascular and renal i
have all those different subjects let's
just finish this off for ocd's sake
all right all done so now i can remove
cardiovascular and renal that i had here
as a big subject and i have a
cardiovascular and renal divider and
then when i open that up i can see the
only heart failure drugs over here
diuretics anti-hypertensives and
anti-arithmetics
amazing and i definitely need to do that
for all of these other subfolders that i
have over here there's tons and tons of
notes that i need to go through but
we'll leave that for another time but
honestly thank you notability this is
going to make my organizational
structure of these notes even better i
forgot to mention that the more i used
notability and the more i started to
store my notes over here i actually went
back in time to my handwritten notes and
i scanned them and i put them on my ipad
because i'm never gonna look through a
folder like this it's just it's never
gonna happen and even if i did i would
never find the information i want like
just look at this writing the fact that
i could take handwritten notes like this
and convert it into a nice organized
systematic structure mbbs year two human
development endocrinology fertility
pregnancy and if you click on each one
of these we have lecture 16 then we have
lecture 17. over here you know this
makes it way easier to find the
information that i actually need anyways
i mean over the years that i've been
using this ipad i've written 1053
notes honestly some crazy crazy stuff in
this ipad have become very close over
the years this is 32 pages of notes that
look like this i've i've written a lot
of notes on this ipad and honestly if i
had written them on paper a i would have
probably lost them but b i could have
never organized them in as good of a way
anyways that's enough of this one thing
that i really want to show you guys
which has been incredibly helpful for me
is being able to search your notes or
control f all these notes so again i
have
1053 notes over here like literally
endless endless pages they might as well
be so let's say i want to search all of
my notes for something like
tuberculosis so it'll search all my
notes and show me the ones that contain
or are about tuberculosis we can do the
same thing with something like hepatitis
and again all the notes where i've
written or talked about hepatitis will
come up right here now this is
incredibly powerful and i cannot explain
the amount of times that i have done
this when i'm in the hospital on the
wards and someone mentions some
conditionary illness that i haven't
heard about in a couple of months and
i've forgotten everything about i'll
open up my phone open notability and
search for it and go find my written
notes about that exact topic now think
about trying to do that in a folder like
this
literally impossible how am i gonna find
tuberculosis in this massive folder this
is physiology what is this clonal
selection whatever it's never gonna
happen and the fact that i can search
for these notes on my ipad
on my phone or on my computer wherever i
am in the world is just absolutely
insane all right now let's talk about
the notability gallery because i think
this is really cool and i honestly think
it's going to change how it is we study
as a community so if you click this
little button up here in the top right
this is the new notability gallery and
you can go through and search for notes
that other people have written on the
things that you're studying which is
just crazy to think about so let's see
what we've got over here we've got some
notes about chemistry benzenes
that looks way neater than i would ever
be able to do it let's download that put
it in notability oh cranial nerves this
is not in english so i'm not going to be
able to understand anything i think it's
in spanish i'll i'll leave it for for
all you guys who speak this language to
to use but it's going to be useless for
me just going through we have them some
ophthalmology and liver does does
notability know that i'm a medical
student i feel like there's a lot of
medical content here okay cool so before
you even download it you can open it up
and have a look inside wow these are
putting my notes to shame feel a little
bit embarrassed but whatever anyways you
can download the note from here which i
think we've already done so let's go
find it in notability so now i have the
note that i just downloaded that
somebody else made in my own notability
and i can go on top of this and i can
annotate what's this it's an accessory
gland if we wanted we could also
for example just black these out over
here or block them out and then test
ourselves say okay what is this it's the
false form ligament delete cool it is
i'm right so yeah so now i've got
someone else's notes in my own
notability i hate to admit this but
these notes do look a little bit neater
and better than my own just a little bit
just a little bit okay i'll admit i'll
admit but anyways even if you don't want
to study if you're just looking for
inspiration on starting a new project or
you want to relax and color something in
or you want a to-do list or a planner
you can get that too over here so let's
search for planner and see what comes up
we've got this really neat looking thing
over here i can dive in and see what
it's all about before i download it oh
that's cool
i like the use of that you can check out
another one nice nice good stuff let's
say i just want to color something in
because i'm feeling bored and i want to
relax art inspiration templates class
notes study materials let's see what's
in art this kind of looks like my
drawing capabilities over here this
looks like it's way out of my league
anyways the point is there's a lot to
choose from and as i'm using this now
this whole thing is still in beta by the
time this video goes live and you guys
have downloaded notability and are going
through this gallery section it'll be
populated with hundreds and hundreds of
different notes let's look at class
notes chemistry physics
quantum chemistry anatomy of the nose
that sounds like it's right up my alley
physiology acute acute inflammation i
would like notes on that yes please i
definitely need to review this after
this video so anyways this gallery
allows you to both share your own notes
and also download other people's notes
from the community i think i should
upload some of my own notes to the
gallery after this video i'll make a
little section and i'll upload some of
the notes that i've written throughout
medical school so download notability
and go check them out there's a couple
other things that i want to mention
about notability that i've been using
over the last few years and i found
incredibly helpful that i want you guys
to know as well the first of which is
that you have the app on your ipad on
your iphone and on the mac and they sync
between the three pretty much
immediately so when i'm in the library
taking notes i have everything on my
ipad when i'm in the hospital on the
wards or in a clinic i can easily access
all those notes on my phone and then
when i'm sitting here at home studying
and i'm doing things on my computer i
can just pull up the mac app and have
the notability notes right over there an
additional benefit of this is that i can
never lose my notes no matter where i am
in the world no matter what device i'm
on i can always access them and i'll
never forget back at the university of
toronto it was like a week before a
really important exam and i lost one of
these bundles of notes something like
this i just couldn't find it and i lost
weeks and weeks of work writing them and
i was devastated and to know that that
could never happen to me again because i
have them backed up on the cloud on my
google drive and on these three devices
stored locally makes me feel very safe
and very comfortable inside one thing
that i forgot to mention is how much
customizability there is in this app
within how you organize the notes like i
already showed you and then within the
notes themselves and with the sort of
appearance of the app so let's say i
make this new note over here i can
completely change how it looks so if we
go to templates over here i can make it
a grid shape i can make it dotted i can
change the color of the background
there's also these hexagonal grids which
are useful for drawing those benzene
structures that we saw a little bit
before there's engineering manuscript
tian zeggy whatever that means or is
used for kind of looks like graph paper
to me and then you can get creative and
there's all kinds of things over here
and of course you can download a whole
host of templates from that notability
gallery section as well anyways let's
just go with grid this color over here
there you go got a completely different
looking style on top of that if you go
down to the settings you can change the
theme you know there's a light theme i
personally prefer the dark one there's
this jet black one which i think is a
bit too dark but let's just say with
light you can change all kinds of other
settings over here that i'm not going to
get into but the point is that you can
customize the app to make it your own
and make it beneficial for you so one of
the things that's really important to me
with all of the note taking that i do is
my ability to share my notes share those
notes with my friends or with myself if
you want to share any of these notes
it's really really easy you literally
just click the share button then you
have the ability to send it via email
you can upload it straight to google
drive which is what i have it's doing
automatically in the backgrounds that i
have them backed up somewhere by the
share card here you can do pdf and image
pretty much however you want but with
the ability to view all my notes using
the app itself on the ipad on the phone
and on my computer i found myself
needing to share things less and less
over time and if you're like me and you
have over a thousand notes and some of
those notes that you've written have
like tens and tens of pages then this
next feature that they just added in the
new update is essential and it's the
ability to bulk manage your pages so
previously you only had this one page
over here and you had to individually
move all the pages or edit them now you
can click select you can select all you
can select some of them and you can just
bulk manage move them around copy
duplicate edit i'm so happy that this is
finally here and honestly i think that's
everything that i wanted to show you
about my notability all the notes that
i've taken in here and how i use it to
organize my studying life i hope you've
been able to see in this video just how
much i genuinely enjoy using this app
and how much serious value it has added
to my life over the three years that
i've been using it if you haven't
already downloaded it go to the link in
the description down below and check it
out i really don't think you're gonna
regret it and that's it for me guys
thank you so much for watching this
video and a big shout out to notability
for sponsoring this video as well if you
did enjoy the video please don't forget
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the future and i'll catch you in the
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