I posted this on Reddit iPad, but thought I would share it here as well. I’m a grad student who loves MarginNote 3’s ability to tag individual annotations. I read pdfs and then tag my annotations so that when I want to search or cross-reference information, I use the search by tag function. However, MarginNote 3 is not as asthetically pleasing as Agenda. So, here is how I use both apps together as a knowledge base:
I annotate my PDF’s in MarginNote, and tag each annotation as well. Then, once I’m done annotating, I copy and paste the outline in a new document in Agenda. It’s much easier to read and keep track of what I have actually read. The super cool thing about this is that Agenda keeps the links in the tags to the original pdf in MarginNote. This means that if I want to reference back to the PDF, I simply click on the tag in the Agenda note and it switches right over to MarginNote 3 and automatically open the source document.
Thanks for sharing, sounds like a great combination indeed!
Thanks for sharing this method. But I was wondering how you could copy and paste the outline in MarginNote 3. Do you export your into Word document and then copy them in Agenda? Or is there a better way? Thank you.
The OP was describing the other way around: copy the outline from MN 3 and pasting into Agenda. You could, of course, copy and paste data from Agenda or other app into a note in MN 3, though, for myself, I don’t see much reason to do that.
Thanks for your reply. I meant to ask how I can copy the entire outline in MarginNote. Should I do it in Document mode or Study mode?
If you can export to OmniOutline, it should be possible to maintain the outline hierarchy, I would think.
Hi, OP here. What I do is, I make my notes from my PDFs in MarginNote. I then view the notes as an outline. I then click “select” and check the various notes in the outline that I want to copy into Agenda. Once they are selected, I click on the “copy” button in MarginNote. I then flip back over to Agenda and paste the notes into a new or existing note. All of the notes, complete with tags, are then pasted. If I click on any of the tags on the note, I am immediately flipped back to Marginnote to the exact PDF highlighted segment that the tag was appended to. Hope this helps!
Yes, absolutely. Thanks a lot for your tips.
I used marginnote before, but the lack of transparency and updates from devs made me quite. I’ve been using liquidtext and it makes as a study tool, then I link the excerpts to the “notes”(cards) related to it in Agenda
Not sure if you’ll see this, but can you explain how you do this? I’m an academic and have liquid but hate the visuals
Hello,
Today liquidtext has improved a lot. Not using it anymore, but it is pretty easy to get links and copy/paste them in Agenda.
As for the structure, you can treat a project as a note and notes as Cards (zettelkasten cards if you like that). The fact you can add color to notes is a plus to categorize more.
Marginnote has updated to marginnote 4, I use it and enjoy, also cheaper… liquidtext is too expensive