MarginNote is an iOS PDF annotation / note taker / mind map app. Looks like version 3 is on the way soon with interface updates and othe new features. A beta tester posted this video

https://youtu.be/54BmOABbAVQ

And MN 2 today posted an AppStore update with code to support an in-app upgrade to MN 3.

I haven't used MarginNote, but I have a project coming up where it could prove useful. Thanks, Paul, for highlighting the new version and the video.

MN 3 is now available on the App Store. $5.99 for in-app update from MN 2 to MN 3 -- MN 2 has to be installed for this to work. $12.99 otherwise.

There appears to be no way to migrate data from MN 2 to MN 3. Bummer.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll definitely check this out. I've always preferred MarginNote over LiquidText, but the learning curve of the last version was fairly extreme.

This looks like a great app, but I am curious about whether it has utility for working with printed documents, or is it just for PDFs?

Steve

Printed documents?

The app works with PDFs and ePUB format.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:

This looks like a great app, but I am curious about whether it has
utility for working with printed documents, or is it just for PDFs?

Steve

To be clear, I understood that. I was just wondering if there are ways people have found to use printed documents... i.e. photo scanning a page or something like that.

Paul Korm wrote:

Printed documents?

The app works with PDFs and ePUB format.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
This looks like a great app, but I am curious about whether it has
>utility for working with printed documents, or is it just for PDFs?
>
>Steve

MarginNote 3 does not have a "capture with camera" feature. I was curious about how to do what you were looking for, Steve, and found it extremely cumbersome to get an scanned imaged into MarginNote without first using other apps to turn the image into a PDF. I think the short answer, Steve, is "not easily".

This is another one of those apps that seems like it would be perfect for me, but which I actually can't use at all. My ideal would be one that didn't try to do mindmapping but just generated a simple Workflowy-style outline. There is a view which works kind of like this, but in the end it is just easier for me to use PDF Expert and export my notes to Dynalist and process them there...

Looks like MarginNote 3 for macOS will soon be available. This week there was an update to MN 2 for macOS on the Mac AppStore, whose sole purpose was to enable in-app upgrades to MN 3. I use MN 3 on iOS regularly and enjoy the ability to create a notebook of highlights and notes across a set of multiple PDFs. The mindmap view of notes and highlights is very useful. The product is still a work in progress I think, but it's evolving nicely.

The MarginNote flashcard feature seems very useful. I always wanted this while a student, and an outliner with spaced repetition features to review items at the best intervals and see the context. Org-mode has this but the learning curve was too much, and emacs did a number of my left pinky finger while trying to figure it out.