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One really useful function that LiquidText provides is “excerpt anything.” This means you can select whatever passage/diagram/figure from the digital text and place it into your digital notebook on the right. Here, in my opinion, is where the magic really happens. It’s like having a blank notebook laid out next to the book you’re reading. In addition to in-text annotation, LiquidText also provided a space on the right-hand side of the digital text for me to take notes and draw diagrams. I can scribble anything I want into the margins (or anywhere really) of the digital text, as I would in a paper-based document. Highlighting (or even double highlighting for added saturation), underlining, circling, etc., can all be done quite smoothly with the tablet pen. If equipped with a tablet that supports tablet pens/pencils, reading and annotating PDFs on LiquidText feels very close to the pen-and-paper experience. Speaking from my experience with the app (about 2 years), I think LiquidText not only covers all of the basic note-taking needs of a researcher in the humanities (such as in-text annotation and margin notes), but it also offers many of the benefits that only handwritten notes can provide (such as mind maps and separate notetaking).

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Although the app can be used on a laptop or PC, I think its potential is best fulfilled when used on a tablet that supports handwriting (I currently use an iPad Air plus Apple pencil). The closest solution that I have been able to find so far is LiquidText, a super handy digital annotation application (compatible with both Apple and Windows).

I wanted something that enables me to map out the passages that I’ve highlighted in a text in structures and networks, in a way that is possible with a pen and a piece of paper. I desperately needed a tool that could help me consolidate my digital annotations and margin notes in a more “at-a-glance” kind of way. There is no way to see how your annotations connect to each other, unless you map them out on a piece of paper and/or write them out in a fresh document. Of course, you can review all of your editorial changes in the “comments” section, but they are listed out again, in a linear fashion. After you have finished reading and annotating the text, all of the highlights and sticky notes can only be reviewed linearly within the text, as you scroll through dozens if not hundreds of pages. We would perhaps use the “highlight text” function to make certain parts of the text stand out, and we would perhaps click on “add sticky note” to add some notes here and there. When we read and annotate a digital text, let’s say a PDF, most of us would open the file via Adobe Acrobat.

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This is also the first post on how I created a digital workflow system for myself that works, as well as tips on how to set up one for yourself. In this post, I will introduce how I use LiquidText, a very useful application for annotating digital texts (such as PDFs and Microsoft Word documents).

Digital Orientalist’s 2022 Conference “Infrastructures”Ī while ago, I wrote a piece arguing that we, as researchers in the humanities, need a better system to streamline academic digital workflow from reading to writing.

The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021.

I think you could use Liquidtext and then export to obsidian but I don’t know. I’d like to know if you know those programs, what you think about, how you use them, if they are compatible with zettlekasten method and Obsidian. I also saw that Margin Note support flash cards and it could be very useful for memory.

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The major pro is that you can use also image excerpt that is impossible (right?) with Zotero and is important if you want put into the annotation an equation. But it lacks bibliographical feature like Zotero.

You can create mind map with excerpt of multiple documents and immediately go back to the specific paper. I found Liquidtext ( ) (Marginnote ( ) is similar but only for Apple ecosystem, not my case) and there are many nice ideas in it. Today I use Joplin as general purpose note-taking but it lacks many linking feature for now. I’ve just discovered this forum while searching a way to smartly organize papers and idea for my engineering thesis for master’s degree.