MarginNote 4 4+

Redefine Your Study

Beijing Yunsi Software Technology Co., Ltd

    • 4.1 • 32 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Dedicated to every extraordinary and unique seeker of knowledge.


MarginNote 4 incorporates cutting-edge techniques and theories to enhance cognitive processes and learning efficiency. It supports various learning stages including previewing, in-class participation, post-class comprehension, practice, and memorization. By leveraging advanced theoretical methods, it simplifies the replication of successful learning experiences.


Dynamic Space for Critical Thinking

• Quick Extend Note: Instantly expand the writing space next to paragraphs, to add personal insights, related materials, or questions.

• Multiple Handwriting Layers


Active Learning by Doing

• Study Set: Advance your learning project. Explore the connections between the materials. Support PDFs, MP4s, EPUBs, MP3s, etc.

• Book Compile: Craft your book in real-time. Mix and match pages.

• Bi-article comparison: Bind closely related materials into one view.

• Distraction-free Mode

• High-performance OCR engine on book layout and text recognition.

• Connect to External Document Source: Access files from any location (Zotera/USB drive...) without copying.

• High-performance Full-text Search Engine


Connect and Reflect with Visual Learning

• Mind Map: Tree-like framework. Cards repurposed with attention.

• Concept Diagram: Use links or gestures to create cross-structural summaries.

• Infinite sized canvas for sketching in mind maps.

• Auto layout for strokes by the branch style. Hide selected strokes with one click.

• 10 mind map branch styles.

• Outliner: Easily edit, select, and control the text nodes.

• Card Board: Classify cards according to colors and tags. Visualize the cards in a Zettelkasten-styled card board layout.


Strategic Notetaking: Relieve Your Germane Cognitive Load

• Custom Toolbar: Let highlighting/annotating become a knowledge encoding process. Colors, labels, and cloze to denote different concepts.

• Content Detection: AI-powered on-demand auto-extraction (formula, chart...) from academic papers.

• Zettelkasten: Card note Markdown supported

• Automated Generation of Mind Maps: Based on up to 10 properties such as labels and colors.


A Knowledge Bridge From What You're Learning to What You've Learnt

• Multiple contextual view combinations. Support real-time internet search.

• Keyword Title Link: Assess past notes by keywords and colors. Auto match previously studied contents.

• Context Backlink: Easily create notes with note-taking trajectory, including cards, page numbers, mind map positions, and stroke timestamps.


Spaced Repetition for long-term memory.

• Inplace Flashcard Editor: Make flashcards with excerpts in one step using the front/back flashcard editor.

• FSRS spaced repetition: Schedule reviews with the latest algorithm


Demo, Share, and Collab

• iCloud note sync across all platforms

• Backtrack via cross-application URL scheme. Support community plugins.

• Adapt to multi-monitor/multi-window views with drag and drop.

• Visible operations in presentation mode. URL sharing for the frozen frame of an operation.

• End-to-end Sharing: Public-key encryption ensures that the study set cannot be distributed without your permission.


Tiers of Membership


Basic:

Take smart notes! Brand-new book reading and quick extend notes for free. Study set read-only for free.


Pro:

Study like a Pro! Tap into iPad & Pencil's potential to support learning. Keep up with the latest hardware features. Leverage Apple Silicon for OCR and AI model, with one-time purchase.


Max:

No need to purchase iPad, Mac, or future devices separately. Introducing Max for all Apple devices! Embrace the future of paperless learning with addtional professional and academic features. One-time purchase or choose Semester to subscribe Max upgrade from Pro.


14-Day Free Trial


For more details just email service@marginnote.com.


Terms of Use:

https://dist.marginnote.cn/MarginNote_Terms_and_Conditions.pdf

Privacy Policy:

https://dist.marginnote.cn/MarginNote_Privacy_Policy.pdf

What’s New

Version 4.1.13

• Added a PDF page rotation feature.


• Handwriting synchronization between Mind Map and Document is now enabled by default.

• Fixed an issue where the popup margin could not scroll or disappeared abnormally during scrolling.

• Adjusted the logic for handwriting gestures in the Mind Map.

• Fixed a crash issue that occurred immediately upon launching the app with certain PDFs.

• Fixed display issues with certain PDFs after the 18.2/15.2 updates.


Changes related to text boxes and labels have been postponed to the next version.

Ratings and Reviews

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4.1 out of 5
32 Ratings

32 Ratings

trt88 ,

Great Mind mapping, poor UI

One thing I liked about MN4 vs MN3 was the option to change a card to H1 heading. That made the card title clearer and cleaner. It’s not TOO difficult to learn it, but the UI/UX is poorly done. For example, things like Menu location, Home ICON (as simple as that!!) could be improved by using standard design. Functions are there but a bit all over the place. If they redesign the UI closer to apple standard, this product would be hard to beat for reading/understanding textbooks and journals as a student.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback! Your suggestions have been submitted to the development team.

cherry 998 ,

Great improvements have been made comparing to MN3

Academic wise, the new version is 100% cool, but it is also 100% more complex than the old version. If you are willing to learn this app, I am sure it will greatly facilitate your work/study (with mind-map / dictation / document review etc.) ‘WILLING TO LEARN’ means wasting hours to understand & adjust features to work in your way. Like setting highlighters / fonts / Notes/ Cards/ keyboard short cuts. It literally took me the whole day to understand the new features and how to use. By the way, the tutorials they provided are not very useful. You still need time to configure the app to the way you like, especially if you have previously used a MN 3. A lot of things changed. Good thing is the highlighting function on MN4 works better than the MN3, and they finally provided more options for mind-map structures. I compare MN4 with Goodnotes and Notability, I think it is more compatible for Mac users rather than iPad. If you use Mac to study, then it is a good option for you. For MN3 user, the sync function works well. All your old notes integrated to MN4. I used iCloud to backup all the notes, so the transferring works well for me between the 2 apps.

Nigel Cutler ,

Best app for pdf notes

For years I have been collecting notes from multiple sources for writing my own articles. Collating these into some sort of order has been a time consuming nightmare, particularly when wanting to refer back to source. This app seems to meet all my needs, I have only just started using it and it seems too good to be true. I’m waiting for something to go wrong! For it to crash or go into overload with all the information I’m sending it, but so far so good. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Congratulations to the developers!

App Privacy

The developer, Beijing Yunsi Software Technology Co., Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled. Learn More

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