MarginNote 3 vs LiquidText: Which app is BEST for YOU?

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Auto backup & syncing 1:16
Sharing your PDFs with others (Exporting options) 3:27
What each app is good at 5:46
The search tool 9:58
OCR 10:40
Free style notes 11:32

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[dachem]

College professor here.... about to share your channel with my students!!!

[aswansara]

Because of you I went paperless. I am a general surgeon

[jackiekittie]

Your videos always make me really regret not buying the 12.9-in instead when I had the chance.

[yeraen]

I use marginnotes 3 for studying and mind-mapping. I find liquidtext useful for after-class questions, I just excerpted the questions I did wrong and revised them before exams without going through the original question banks.

[lgude]

Clear MarginNote is the choice for my study. Many of my books are ePub so even that small detail is critical.

[mayrawinan]

Finally! Thank you so much for putting so much effort into scrutinizing these two giants. 😍❤️❤️❤️

[PatrickDunca]

I totally prefer the MarginNote methods, but the infinite unconstrained mind maps, as demonstrated at the end of the video, is a required feature for me.

[htx]

Marginnote 3 is amazing, I love it especially for reading

[steven]

Thanks you for sharing. I love this video.
I have both applications, in my view, i love liquid text more when it comes to user friendly, however, I found that liquidtext oftenly out of response when deal with large size pdf. On the other hand, margin note can sync easily across different device between IOS and Mac OS, if you have a MacBook, you should choose Margin note.

[SciJoy]

Thank you for really deep diving into the good and bad. This was incredibly helpful.

[fhydan]

I really love using LiquidText, but I agree that it's document-management system makes no sense.

[AbidKhan-lrwb]

Hi 🙋🏻‍♂️ there...I have only tested margin notes 3 in trial mode and it’s very stable but it’s down side is it’s complicated user interface.
On the other hand LiquidText user interface is simple and awesome. But it’s very BUGGY. It always crashes. When you make 20 plus pages ink notes in the workspace canvas and you have 10-15 books in the project, then the inking will be very laggy, eraser will not work, search function is completely broken etc. So it becomes literally unusable. The developers of the LiquidText are very nice people. They are trying their best but there is something fundamentally wrong that they can’t seem to rectify...After few months, I’ve stopped using LiquidText and switched over to GoodNotes for pdf annotations and notes.So the idea 💡 of LiquidText is great but it doesn’t work with big project’s containing pdf textbooks and after 20-30 pages ink notes in the workspace, the inking becomes horribly slow and eraser doesn’t work. Search in multiple documents and for tags is completely broken.literally unusable.
May be in future, if GoodNotes doesn’t do well (at the time being I am reading, annotating big pdf textbooks without any issue!) then I may go towards margin note...Margin notes developers must work to simplify user interface to make it more user friendly. NOTE: hardware info: I have iPad 6 (2018) WiFi only model with 128gb ssd. I use it Apple Pencil 1.Thanks and regards.

[ThePetKeeper]

If you work between multiple systems (iOS /Windows/ Android) avoid Margin Note 3 like the plague. I've got so many notes that are locked away in my Margin note 3 files. The reason being that it exports flattened PDFs, the annotations of which are not accessible to other devices and pdf readers. So I could not continue editing the PDF on windows.

I've also brought this to the developer's attention on the forums, to which they respond that they're focusing on other features.

Liquid text at the very least leaves the highlights accessible to you.

[BurOnOz]

Hi Ropsie, Windows version available now 30May20. I wonder your thoughts about it, hope you can add to one of your review later. Thanks.

[sallyoy]

My MarginNote fucked up my notes which cost me weeks to finish because it sucks at synchronization.... i am here to think if i should continue to use it

[davidannohjr.]

Hi! Thank you for a very detailed and useful review.
Do you still use Liquid Text for any purposes?

[prax]

How to get the margin note mind map to the left of the screen and book to the right?

[gozzilla]

thanks a lot for the video! I've recently got an Ipad Pro and am searching for an app which is 1) a very solid PDF reader (don't care about e-pub too much); 2) able to add expandible, hand-written notes wherever I tap my finger on the document. MarginNote is among those I tried the closest to my need, but I find it overwhelming for my simple needs (don't really need all the mindmap/review thing). would you have anything in mind that may suit me? any feedback would be very much appreciated!! and... keep up the great job!

[majeedfarruja]

Hi guys i want to buy one of this app in your opinion which one i should pick
Thanks;););)

[fynn]

Hey :) I am searching for an app to support my master thesis writing. I mostly have to go through a lot of pdf documents, highlighting stuff and exporting phrases / paragraphs. Normally I just copy & paste the paragraph into a word document and make a remark where I got it from. Do you think MN3 or LT could help there? I normally organise my material like a mind map and connect all the different findings by topics (e.g. theoretical background, analysis of the subject, ...) and from what I saw in your videos, both of the apps would give a huge boost in efficiency for that kind of work. If I want to read up on a specific phrase that I copied, I would not have to open (and search) for the pdf but could use the provided link on the canvas.