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目前看到有官方說法的文章
可以直接拉到最後面啦
最後那句看了真的火都上來了
吃相怎麼能這麼難看？

Why the best iPad app for handwritten notes is going freemium
BY JARED NEWMAN
https://bit.ly/3nTkbR1

For those who prefer taking digital notes by hand instead of typing, Notabilit
y has long been an iPad must-have.

對於那些更喜歡用手寫數位筆記而不是打字的人來說，Notability長期以來一直是iPad的
必備應用程式。

The app lets users take handwritten notes on an iPad, ideally with an Apple Pe
ncil. It supports an array of brush styles and paper formats, and it has a kil
ler audio recording feature for lectures and interviews: Recordings and writte
n notes are synchronized, so you can tap on what you wrote and hear the audio
from that exact moment. (The app is also available for iPhones and Macs, where
 it’s mostly helpful for reviewing existing notes.)



But after 11 years of selling the app for an up-front price—most recently $9
–developer Ginger Labs is leaving that model behind. Notability is now free t
o download, and will require a $15 per year subscription—or $12 per year for
a limited time—to unlock all of its features.



Non-paying users will have limits on how many times they can edit a note and h
ow many brushes they can save as favorites, and they’ll no longer be able to
automatically sync notes to iCloud or other online storage services. K-12 scho
ols will get the full version of free, but existing non-education users won’t
. Instead, they’ll get one more year to use the app without restrictions.



The switch to a subscription model may not sit well with all of Notability’s
15 million users, but Colin Gilboy, the lead engineer at Ginger Labs, says it
’s necessary to serve a larger goal: By getting more people to try the app, t
he company is hoping to create an ecosystem where users can share notes and te
mplates with one another.



“It’s not really driven by revenue or profits, so much as how we want to exp
and and increase our reach, and build a broader ecosystem,” Gilboy says.

Gilboy說：「這不是真的以收入或利潤為考量的，而是我們希望擴大和增加我們的客群，
並建立一個更廣大的生態系統。」

CREATING A COMMUNITY
建立一個社群

The centerpiece of this new push is a gallery where users will be able to find
 notes that others have uploaded. Students, for instance, might use the galler
y to look up notes on a certain study topic. It could also be a place to disco
ver new note-taking formats or coloring pages. Users will then be able to down
load, edit, and highlight those notes for themselves.



Overall, it sounds like a nod to the way apps such as Notion and Coda are buil
ding communities around shared document templates. Both of those services offe
r free tiers as well, the idea being that it helps promote a bigger ecosystem.

總的來說，這聽起來像是致敬Notion和Coda等應用程式圍繞共享文件模板構建社群的方式
。 這兩項服務也都提供免費的會員等級，其想法是它有助於促進更大的生態系統。

Last year, Notability tried a different approach, selling templates, planners,
 themes, and stickers to its users through an in-app shop. A “Feel Good Journ
al,” for instance, offered coloring pages and other mindfulness exercises—Gi
lboy says it was the store’s most popular offering—while a “Digital Life Pl
anner” provided an array of calendar views and goal-planning pages. Notabilit
y also sold extra features such as handwriting recognition and math conversion
.



Those features will all become part of the new subscription plan, but Gilboy s
ays he’s more excited to see what users will come up with on their own.

這些功能都將成為新訂閱計劃的一部分，但Gilboy說，他更期待看到使用者會自己想出什
麼。

“We see the future of Notability as being more focused on collaboration and s
haring,” he says.

他說：「我們認為Notability的未來將更專注於協作和共享。」

Still, Ginger Labs wants to nudge users toward subscriptions even if they’re
not taking advantage of those sharing features, hence the limits on cloud back
ups and edits. The company won’t say exactly how many edits it will allow on
a single note before hitting users with a paywall—for now, it wants to be abl
e to tweak the number based on what it sees from users—but it does want its h
eaviest users to eventually pay up.



“We want to make sure that people can’t just use Notability and make it all
the way through med school for free,” Gilboy says. “That would leave us with
out a business.”

Gilboy說：「我們希望確保人們不能一路免費使用Notability直到醫學院畢業。」「這會
讓我們沒生意做。」

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