Note-taking and annotation happen so seamlessly in Notability, that you’ll wonder how you ever relied solely on pen and paper. This powerful tool elevates things to the next level with nifty features like recording and playback options that allow you to save audio while you’re taking notes. And because everything syncs, when you revisit your notes and click anywhere on the copy, the app will play the audio it recorded at the moment you wrote it down, so you get even more out of your meetings and lectures.

Notability’s smart capabilities don’t end there. It also lets you import almost any type of document which can then be annotated, signed, and shared with others. Organizing all of your notes into different folders and making them searchable is incredibly easy too; you’ll no longer have to rifle through crumpled notebooks and pages to find what you’re looking for. So in the long run, moving away from your paper trail with this ambitious note-taker on Mac is a simple switch.