



If you click on New you can start a new mind map notebook. I prefer to think of this as the mind map area. OK, let’s click out of the screen and go to the You can also use this select button to choose specific notes to tag, merge, change color, delete, or add to the card deck. You can hit notes list to see all of them together. This little arrow handle here allows you to slide to the left to see all of your highlights and comments. This 3 dots icon gives you some other more granular options. This doesn’t seem to be particularly useful, unless you were reading a large document and then the thumbnail view would be very helpful for navigation. This is the search icon and an icon where you can see contents, thumbnails, and bookmarks. I’ll go into this a little bit more later. This is confusing since they call the document-specific list of excerpts a notebook, BUT they also use the same term to describe the primary document for mind maps.
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This next icon allows you to upgrade your notebook for study purposes. I prefer text format, and would ideally want it to be emailed.
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MarginNote essentially exports in PDF or Word document format. I definitely find myself wanting more options here. This icon here will allow you to export your excerpts. If you click out of the excerpt/annotation mode, and click on this icon that looks like a stack of papers, you can see the notebooks for this document. So you can draw, highlight, erase, but remember, unless they are on an excerpted portion, those edits or notes won’t be available in your notebook AND you won’t be able to pull them into a mind map. Annotation simply allows you to mark up the text, but those edits and markings are not available in your notebook – they are just visible in the document. So, anything you excerpt will be added to a default notebook for the document. This is a really nice option for PDFs without text recognition. Or, if you are not selecting text, you can use one of these two icons to select an image in the shape of a rectangle or in a freeform shape. These tools also allow you to add a comment. You can highlight the text using these two text selection tools and choose from a variety of color options. MarginNote gives you a couple of different ways to do this. In order to use those portions of the document in a mind map, you will need to excerpt them. OK, so in other PDF annotation apps, excerpting is like like highlighting and your notebook is like the list of highlights. Again, this is confusing since there is very little documentation, but what I have determined is that you use the excerpt function to add portions of document to your notebook. The pencil icon allows you to Excerpt and Annotate, which is what you will be doing most frequently with your documents. Once you import your document, you have these options indicated by icons on the top.
