![]() ![]() ![]() For those who need this kind of workflow, there's no better app than LiquidText out there - and possibly no better workflow. The Apple Pencil makes all of this even better, giving users specific gestures to highlight and pull out annotations as they review documents. And all of this is lightning fast and wholly enjoyable, thanks to LiquidText's speedy and simple UI. You can pull annotations out from the document they belong to - like clippings or post-its - and organize them together or even link them along the right side of the screen. For instance, you could look at an introductory thesis statement next to its midpoint argument to see if it properly connects the dots. You can use multitouch gestures to pinch together large sections of a document. There's a better way to organize your research, and this app is it.Īt its core, LiquidText focuses on the pain point of annotating lengthy documents, giving users a number of tools to do it in a way wholly unlike any other PDF app on the market. Lawyer and Mac enthusiast David Sparks describes it as being "engineered around the idea of reviewing long PDF documents better." It looks at books filled with post-it notes and string-covered bulletin boards and laughs. A traditional sign-and-form-fill annotation app this is not - LiquidText is built for projects, novels, research papers, and dusty libraries. ![]() I've rewritten this intro to LiquidText about five times now, largely because the multitouch annotation app has this slippery way of defying description. ![]() PDF Viewer can even rearrange, delete, or insert blank pages within a PDF, though it doesn't have some of the more advanced combination features (like merging multiple PDFs or adding existing PDF pages into a document). For instance, if you're looking at a document, you'll be shown the tools for sharing, zooming, and browsing through annotations tap the annotation button, and the app brings you into Annotation mode, with its various tools - still simplified into easy-to-understand icons. Taking a page from Apple's own iWork suite, the app provides a series of nested views depending on which feature you're using. It is a perfect in-between for users who need a bit more than what the iOS Markup tool provides, but don't need the power of apps like PDF Expert or LiquidText.Ī PDF app's interface can frequently appear daunting to the average user, thanks in part to the sheer number of annotation options developers try to shove inside of them, but PDF Viewer smartly simplifies this process. I still take pen and paper so that I can quickly sketch something if I need to share or develop an idea, but I can easily take photos of anything drawn (by any participant) at the end, and the timestamps give me an easy way to associate things with an event.PDF Viewer has a clean, simplistic interface and powerful annotation tools. Nowadays I make audio recordings and cough or tap my fingers when the discussion reaches something particularly relevant - if I'm able to participate, I'll use a key phrase such as "So to summarise what we've just discussed." You can get the recordings transcribed pretty cheaply with AWS and the results are usually excellent, you have timestamps that you can match against any pictures you took and since I use Mac and iPhone just about everything ends up in iCloud for access from anywhere. I found the LiveScribe products did a good job, back when I was taking paper notes. I think Apple's iPad handwriting recognition (Scribble) is pretty amazing, but writing on an iPad still doesn't feel natural enough for me to want to use it for more than a demo or signing a credit card receipt on an iPhone at the Apple Store. Whether this product is able to deliver something that finally hits the mark is yet to be determined. I don't currently have a pressing need for this type of product, but I still feel that it is an unfilled need and something worth trying to solve. ![]()
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