Of all the PDF viewers on macOS, it seems only and support marginal comments, GDocs-style. I wonder why it's so rare.
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(and I think _no_ ebook reader supports it… pretty wild)
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I have a Google Scholar alert for new citations of 's 2011 LiquidText paper, but alas there have only been a couple high-quality cites. I just can't get over how little has been added to those ideas in the past decade!
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Have you tried a remarkable yet?
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Yes, have been using one on and off since early 2020. Useful, though has its own deep software issues.
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The main issue is that the device doesn't take itself seriously as either a digital reader or a digital notebook, at the book level. It takes the micro, page level quite seriously. One-page sketching, drafting, etc—that's all fine. But the levels above that are basically absent.
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This is my biggest problem with it too, but they are definitely improving. The projection function is quite good and now I’ve started relying on the app to connect more workflow.
Also some apple scripts and shortcuts for document ingestion have been very helpful there.
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Stepping up a level from that, to a broader professional workflow, it's extremely unserious. A device like this doesn't exist in isolation—it wants to ingest documents from some living source and produce work to be consumed by other tools. It's truly awful at this.
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And not sure if you’ve used any of the community developed tools but take a look, specially KOReader
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Yep, I've played with KOReader and a bunch of the others. Still awfully kludgy! :)
(As a dear mentor kindly told me once and it felt good:) Your job is to be professionally frustrated, so good job!
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Emphatically does not feel good! :)
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