I still use my iPad Pro 9.7 inch to take notes using Notability. It's useful for just getting thoughts down, keeping my notes digital, and being able to essentially both notebook and books in one device. I absolutely love it!
Personally, Notability has been my daily driver. Sometimes I'll use Nebo but now with the Apple Scribble feature, I find myself just writing into the text boxes manually.
I've been using the iPad + Pencil since late 2016 and haven't looked back ever since. I also prefer the Pencil over glass. The matte screen protector felt nice but degraded the screen visibility enough to be annoying.
Yes, at the end of the day I always come back to Apple Notes. It has good diagramming capabilities, with snap-to-shape for people with crummy sketching skills (draw a circle/cloud/star/arrow/line/etc then hold for a sec), and it recognizes handwriting well. You can group select and edit handwritten text too.<p>I'm really looking forward to a new iPad mini with support for Apple Pencil 2, as I think it would be more natural for note taking than my 12.9.
I still do to this day but most of the time its being done by my dad. He's doing a lot of reconstruction mapping and so on, so its a great alternative for him, al though he's more of a android guy
Yes. I bought the iPad for something other than note-taking but I have found it to be excellent for that purpose, when paired with the Apple Pencil. I currently use the built-in Apple Notes app for this.