![]() ![]() Want to maximize your productivity when it comes to PDFs and documents? Then iAnnotate is a great option to consider. For those who need this kind of workflow, there's no better app than LiquidText out there - and possibly no better workflow. The Apple Pencil makes all of this even better, giving users specific gestures to highlight and pull out annotations as they review documents. And all of this is lightning fast and wholly enjoyable, thanks to LiquidText's speedy and simple UI. You can pull annotations out from the document they belong to - like clippings or post-its - and organize them together or even link them along the right side of the screen. For instance, you could look at an introductory thesis statement next to its midpoint argument to see if it properly connects the dots. You can use multitouch gestures to pinch together large sections of a document. There's a better way to organize your research, and this app is it.Īt its core, LiquidText focuses on the pain point of annotating lengthy documents, giving users a number of tools to do it in a way wholly unlike any other PDF app on the market. ![]() Lawyer and Mac enthusiast David Sparks describes it as being "engineered around the idea of reviewing long PDF documents better." It looks at books filled with post-it notes and string-covered bulletin boards and laughs. A traditional sign-and-form-fill annotation app this is not - LiquidText is built for projects, novels, research papers, and dusty libraries. I've rewritten this intro to LiquidText about five times now, largely because the multitouch annotation app has this slippery way of defying description. PDF Viewer can even rearrange, delete, or insert blank pages within a PDF, though it doesn't have some of the more advanced combination features (like merging multiple PDFs or adding existing PDF pages into a document). For instance, if you're looking at a document, you'll be shown the tools for sharing, zooming, and browsing through annotations tap the annotation button, and the app brings you into Annotation mode, with its various tools - still simplified into easy-to-understand icons. Taking a page from Apple's own iWork suite, the app provides a series of nested views depending on which feature you're using. It is a perfect in-between for users who need a bit more than what the iOS Markup tool provides, but don't need the power of apps like PDF Expert or LiquidText.Ī PDF app's interface can frequently appear daunting to the average user, thanks in part to the sheer number of annotation options developers try to shove inside of them, but PDF Viewer smartly simplifies this process. It's just $5 in the App Store, or less than you spent this morning on that child's milkshake from Starbucks that you somehow convinced yourself is a cup of "coffee".PDF Viewer has a clean, simplistic interface and powerful annotation tools. If you use PDFs in anything more than a cursory fashion, you should check out Highlighter. The developer is OMZ Software, the same folks behind the NewsRack (formerly NewsStand) RSS reader for iPad and iPhone, itself a pretty slick app. ![]() The level of polish is very high, and its hard to see what could be added in a future release. Links are clickable, and open in a small, popover browser instead of sending you off to Safari, and you can highlight a word and look it up in the same popover using Wikipedia.įinally, there is full support for hierarchical tables of content (with clickable links) and search in both the library view (search by title) and when reading a PDF (search-as-you-type shows the results as torn paper-strips with the search-phrase highlighted inside a few lines of text for context). You can invert the display for night-reading, tweak the contrast for tired eyes and even choose between eight shades of gray or beige for the page background. The display of the PDF can be jiggered with, too. Page navigation is classy, too, with a Pages-style loupe which shows thumbnail previews as you slide your finger across the navigation-bar at the bottom of the screen. Turn a page while zoomed in, for example, and the app respects the zoom level, but shifts up to the top of the next page, ready to read. These features are winners on their own, but the little details are what really make the app. ![]()
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