Academic Workflow - Any Suggestion for an Application/s?

Posted by Darren McDonald
Oct 23, 2019 at 08:24 AM

@J J Weimer

Thanks for the information about MarginNote vs. LiquidText. I think I will stick with just MarginNote then and see how it goes with my workflow. It is fortunate that there is a macOS and iPad version of this software available.

Let us all know how you go with Flexcil. I would like to read how to felt this appllcation is.

J J Weimer wrote:
@Darren McDonald
> >To reference some of your questions/concerns:
> >* I would not consider MarginNote good enough to use outside its own
>eco-system. It does not export anything but flattened PDFs. It does not
>do any cloud sync other than iCloud (and that is often unreliable). I
>have been able to kludge a work-flow to transfer tagged notes from
>Bookends to MarginNote on the iPad.
> >* I gave up on LiquidText when I found that it munged the import of
>annotations from PDFExpert. At least MarginNote imported properly. If I
>am going to be limited to using a type of “side-sheet” note system, I
>also found the tagging feature of MarginNote to be important in its own
>right.
> >* Flexcil looks like a good app to use to cull notes from documents. It
>seems that I have yet another app to try.