![]() You’ll select this button and then navigate to the synced Dropbox folder containing your Notability PDFs. A new dialogue box will appear with an “Add…” button. In that menu, you’re looking for the “Import Folders” option. Opening up Evernote (in Windows), select the “Tools” drop-down menu. Now what remains is importing these files into Evernote.Ĥ. Also you’ll want to ensure that the export file format is PDF.Īt this point, you should be successfully backing your notes up to Dropbox. Notability notes need to be backed up into a separate, Notability-only Dropbox folder. When you press the blue settings button to the right of the Dropbox setting (visible in the screen shot above), you are brought to Dropbox-specific configuration options. Now, selecting the “Auto-backup” option, ensure that Dropbox is linked to Notability (or go ahead and link it).ģ. First, in Notability, open up the app settings by selecting the gear in the lower right-hand side.Ģ. ![]() So, with your Dropbox account in hand and a Windows install of Evernote, here’s how to set things up.ġ. This solution also requires linking Dropbox to your Notability app to automatically back-up your notes. For some reason, only the Windows version has the “Import Folder” feature that I use to make this work. So, based on this question from Jeff Aman, let me outline how I do this.įirst, and perhaps the deal-breaker for some, you need to have a Windows install of Evernote. In order to make the notes searchable, I always add a few keywords to the note using the typewriter tool in Notability or add a very descriptive title)). ![]() I do this for a few reasons: the first is I use Evernote as my central repository for “keeping all my things” so it makes sense to be able to archive my notes in this way secondly, as I am a premium Evernote user, the notes get OCR’d, so not only are they archived, but can appear as I search for items in Evernote ((It is worth noting that Evernote does a fairly poor job of OCR’ing my handwriting. In concert with my handwritten notes, I’ve developed a paperless workflow that I use to automatically ((Well, as close to automatic as you can get–this process still requires opening Evernote in order to suck up the Notability notes)) import my Notability notes into Evernote. In this earlier post, I outline why Notability is my preferred app for taking hand-written notes on my iPad. ![]()
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