A perfect app, made even better
Edit: Please, I would very much like to join the Margin Note forums, but I never get the activation email. Please could I be assisted. Original review: I am a long time Margin Note 3 user. I have been around so long that I was able to suggest features through reviews and see them implemented over time. I think we can all agree that Beijing Yunsi Software Technology could work on their marketing strategy a bit better, as it was radio silence for about 8 months and some of us were starting to wonder if Margin Note was a dead app. Then suddenly, they drop this bombshell. Every little niggle, every slight issue I had with the old app has been addressed. It is now flawless. Forget Notability or Goodnotes, this is the app you want. You can make space as margins around textbooks (hence margin note) but now you can even split the book at any position to make space to write as much as you want - a feature criminally lacking in all other apps. You can make mind maps, review items using spaced repetition, and have an infinite canvas to write on (some other ENTIRE apps are JUST that, here it is dropped so casually as an add on feature). My favorite thing about the new app though is that the interface has become flexible enough to be customized into a very minimal state, allowing you to focus on the books you are reading and utilize your screen real estate for just that. What’s more, the placement of all the buttons is just in the right place. Other apps are still figuring out where to put the tool bar and so on and so they let you as the user do it but it ends up being that wherever you put it, it is kind of annoying. Here, (of course), you can also put it wherever you want because the developers are just about empowering you like that, but there is a clear place that it would be best for it to go. But there is more. While other Apple Store apps are very “apple” - they tell you what you can do and you will like it cause the developers know best - here the power is placed in your hands. It takes some getting used as there are many many options right from the get go, but this means that everything you want is in there. For example, you can view one, two or three versions of the documents you’re looking at at the same time, with the screen split however you like. You can have the book on the left and your notes/mindmap on the right, or the other way around (THANK YOU). You can duplicate all the tools and make them have default settings for quicker access. You can put th
