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Posted by Lucas
Mar 19, 2024 at 04:16 AM
A few more notes:
I was looking for these criteria (in addition to the criteria stated above):
1) notes created automatically from highlights
2) highlight-notes accessible in an integrated view rather than only in connection with a given PDF
3) preferably, highlights saved permanently to PDF.
RemNote and Logseq seem to excel at criteria 1 and 2, although they don’t meet criteria 3. I find RemNote to work a bit more intuitively than Logseq for this purpose.
However, there is also a lot to be said for using Readwise for all of one’s PDF highlighting, and Readwise has integrations with Logseq, RemNote, Obsidian, etc. In this regard, I found the integration with Logseq to work well, whereas I didn’t get it to work with RemNote. So Readwise plus Logseq is a compelling option. RemNote would potentially be even better if the sync would work (and it has the advantage that changes to highlights are supposed to sync as well).
(In Logseq, one would potentially want to create a special query to find all highlights. This is probably a bit easier to do in RemNote.)
Also worth mentioning is this Obsidian plugin:
https://github.com/RyotaUshio/obsidian-pdf-plus
It’s highly configurable and includes an options to create notes from highlights and to save the highlights permanently to the PDF.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 19, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Again, do check out LiquidText, which allows you to pull together notes from multiple PDFs in a single document (PDF) consisting of notes and excerpts.
Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 23, 2024 at 06:58 PM
LiquidText is very nice on devices with input devices like Pencil or the like. On keyboard-only devices it’s a PITA. It’s also become pricey—$175/year for a subscription. The subscription isn’t necessary, if you just want to use the app on one device only.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Actually, I’d forgotten about LiquidText, which is also available
>for Windows. It uses a slightly different model from MarginNote, but
>does much the same thing: https://www.liquidtext.net