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MarginNote 4 4+
Redefine Your Study
Beijing Yunsi Software Technology Co., Ltd
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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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
TBD
I rarely post reviews, but MarginNote is probably the most important app in my toolbox. AT THIS TIME, I would just caution people with older computers or huge study sets to realize that MN has its limitations when interacting and updating. The app works fine on my iPad 11" Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, but it’s too slow and/or glitchy on my MacBook Air M1 with 16GB of memory and 1TB of storage. No idea why this app is so slow other than the fact that I have some massive medical textbooks and pictures. I have also been bogged down by a really really slow interface, despite other apps zipping by. I have lost work. I have been frustrated studying really boring topics that otherwise MN is great in helping me stay on top of, and it’s made my ADHD worse as I go down the rabbit hole looking for alternatives, I start pulling out physical note cards (impossible given the amount of things I’m studying), and counting my pennies to see what I can afford. Heptabase is sleek and useful, but it doesn’t have a review section like MN, and MN is better for students at the moment. Unfortunately, it has become unusable for now on my mac, which has something to do with the computer’s ability to run my study sets. I typically run many apps simultaneously to switch back and forth while learning and looking up things, but it’s only since updating to Sequoia that I have been having issues with MN. I am debating moving over to something else like LiquidText although I really don’t want toooo :(
Developer Response ,
期待您将更详细的截图或者视频说明发送在我们的论坛里( https://bbs.marginnote.cn),这样工作人员可以更好地协助您
A briliant piece of engineering
Since I first ran into MarginNote in 2020 it has been my go-to tool for studying. I don't think I could have ever succeeded in my endeavours without it.
The application is a masterpiece of engineering but I agree with some of the users that say that the lack of documentation and support is a big drawback. Only the community is there when one has a question and only in a handful of times the dev team speaks up.
For years we had been asking questions, requesting features and reporting bugs to no avail. Then all of the sudden, MN4 was released.
It is, once again, a BRILLIANT application, but the developer needs to pay more attention to their users, focus on documentation and support.
This app saved / is saving my life
I have severe adult adhd inattentive type with an incredibly hyper active non-linear thinking style. Margin note has helped me cope more than any other app to help me organize all of these thoughts and information I am constantly taking in and trying to create sense of / integrate. My brain works so hard and is always on 5 topics at once. Things click for me at random times, not when they would for typical people and not linearly. If I don’t capture that in that moment and put it into a web of other knowledge, it will be lost forever and I will have to return to the same scenario repeating mistakes without having learned. Margin note lets me keep sources and context with my ideas while also organizing them into hierarchies and defining relations later when I have time so my momentary awareness can stick and nothing is lost. My data and information input is more likely to become Learning. Rather than it disappearing into the disorganized inbox of my mind.
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, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Beijing Yunsi Software Technology Co., Ltd
- Size
- 379.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2023 Beijing YunSi Software Technology Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- 14 days Free Trial $0.00
- Upgrade to PRO from MN3(iOS) $4.99
- 14 days Free Trial $0.00
- Unlock PRO Forever (New) $12.99
- Unlock MAX Forever (New) $49.99
- Unlock MAX based on PRO (New) $38.00
- Upgrade to MAX from MN3(macOS) $19.99
- Subscription to MAX (3 months) $4.99
- Subscription to MAX (Annually) $12.99
- Subscription to MAX (6 months) $7.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.