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- Homebrew
brew install --cask marginnote
About MarginNote
MarginNote is a reading and study app for Mac and iPad. Highlights you make in PDFs become cards that you can arrange in a mind map and review later with spaced repetition, so an excerpt, a mind map node and a flashcard are the same item in three forms.
It targets long-term reading work such as medical school, law casebooks, graduate and professional exams, research literature reviews and language learning, and works alongside tools like Zotero and Anki. MarginNote has been developed since 2013; the current version is MarginNote 4.
Strengths
- Highlights turn into mind map nodes and flashcards
- Built-in spaced repetition review
- Works alongside Zotero and Anki workflows
Limitations
- Mac and iPad only
- Takes time to learn the card and mind map workflow
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumDistributed through the App Store; check the listing for current pricing.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- MarginNote
- Platforms
- macOS, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Students and researchers studying long PDFs on a Mac or iPad
- Categories
- PDF tools, Note-taking, Learning tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to MarginNote
Compare allSoftware that can replace MarginNote for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Flexcil
A study app that combines PDF reading, annotation and handwritten notes on tablets and the web.
Flexcil pairs PDF reading and handwritten notes on Android, iOS and the web, but lacks MarginNote's mind maps and built-in spaced-repetition flashcards.
Notability
A note app combining handwriting, audio recording and transcription with AI summaries, quizzes and flashcards.
Notability centres on handwriting with audio recording and AI-generated flashcards and quizzes on iOS, Android and web, instead of linking PDF highlights into mind maps.
MarginNote as an alternative
Listings that name MarginNote as an alternative.
Highlights
A PDF reader for Mac, iPad and iPhone that turns annotations into exportable notes.
MarginNote turns PDF highlights into mind maps and flashcards on Mac and iPad, with spaced repetition review but a steeper learning curve.
LiquidText
An active-reading app for annotating PDFs and pulling excerpts into a flexible workspace.
MarginNote links PDF highlights to mind maps and flashcards with spaced repetition, running on Mac and iPad but not Windows.
RemNote
Note-taking app that pairs outlining with built-in spaced-repetition flashcards.
MarginNote turns PDF highlights into mind map nodes and flashcards with spaced repetition, but runs only on Mac and iPad and centres on reading PDFs.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Anki
Flashcards that schedule themselves, showing you a card just before you would have forgotten it.
MindMeister
An online mind mapping tool with real-time collaboration, AI map generation and a presentation mode.
Scrintal
A visual note-taking web app that places linked notes on boards for research and study.
MyScript Notes
A handwriting note-taking app, formerly Nebo, that converts pen input into editable typed text.
Diigo
A web annotation and bookmarking service with a browser extension for highlighting, tagging and saving pages.
Kami
A web-based classroom platform for annotating PDFs and other resources and making them interactive.
