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Getting your head around complicated subjects is already challenging enough. Fortunately MarginNote Pro offers tools to aid you in learning new things from text.

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Annotate Away

At its core, MarginNote Pro is an app that allows you to make annotations on text documents, aiding you in learning a subject matter and making it easier to reference back to at a later date. Beyond its core, however, the app allows the taking of text, audio, and video notes, as well as highlighting and sketches directly onto the document, and even hashtags. You can create a mindmap (like a flow chart), and use the app to make flash cards. It supports PDF and EPUB formats, and can convert web pages into EPUB. It also supports exporting to some degree.

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MarginNote Pro is a very useful app, though it would be nice if it supported more file formats. It does have a tendency to use a lot of system resources, worth bearing in mind on older computers or laptops running on battery. The user interface is also a bit daunting at first, but once you've got your head around it, it's a very helpful application.

  • Pros

    • Annotate documents
    • Make notes in audio and video
    • Supports highlighting and sketching
    • Export functionality
  • Cons

    • Only supports two file formats
    • Very intensive on resources
    • UI not particularly easy to understand
    • Does not work directly with web pages
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App specs

  • License

    Full

  • Version

    4.2.5
  • Latest update

  • Platform

    Mac

  • OS

    OS X 10.10

  • Language

    English

    Available languages

    • German
    • English
    • French
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Chinese
  • Downloads

    98

    Last month's downloads

    • 3
  • Size

    454.38 MB

  • Developer

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MarginNote_Pro_V4.2.5.dmg
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