Thanks! We've thought about that. The next update will add some tagging features that won't solve that, but will get you partway to a solution to the timeline issue.
My apologies for the unimplemented features! Please know it's not because we don't care, we have real-human tech support for even our free users because we desperately care. But we have to focus on the largest demand requests. Fwiw, the biggest request is desktop support, which are in beta now.
1. The In-app-purchase gives you inking, linking by drawing lines, freeform excerpts, multiple documents in a single project, and more.
2. Sign-up required: no.
3. Does this require 3rd party servers: no, stores everything locally.
Happy to answer any other questions (I'm founder @ LT)!
Is there any way to export the data into a standard, editable file format? (Ideally something like markdown...)? I hate to build up a huge library of notes that are only usable in one piece of software...
You can export doc+notes as PDF, or export notes as a DOCX file. Uses iCloud Backup for backup, but dedicated solution coming probably this summer. Thanks for asking! (I'm founder @ LT)
I would like to second the multiplatform suggestion. I want to be able to see my notes on any of my devices, not just Mac/ios, otherwise it's just not worth it to me.
Your software looks great! And I would happily fork over cash for it, but I need a Linux client ;)
1. My Dropbox folder of paper pdfs is a total mess, only made manageable because I use JabRef to open them. From within LiquidText, I have a hard time finding the papers I want. Being able to find papers again at all seems to be the main productivity boost in my math research right now, and JabRef has been great for that, even though it doesn't do fulltext search of the pdfs themselves. One important feature, here, is that JabRef helps me see papers in some historical context -- both when they were published and which other papers I was looking at when it was added to my bib file.
2. I consume lots of papers (but not necessarily in careful detail, making LT features potentially less useful), and I found the friction of having to import and manage the library within LiquidText to be a little too much for me, especially through a touch interface.
3. I like having multiple papers in front of me simultaneously. On my desktop, I tend to have multiple documents open across two monitors. I also like being able to use a physical keyboard and to have the precision of a mouse. It's nice that alt-tab (or command-backtick) is a nearly instantaneous operation.
4. Since I don't use my iPad, it tends not to be charged, leading to less use. It's also a model that can't use an Apple Pencil, so I haven't been incentivized to move all my note-taking and thinking to tablet computers.
I would really like a pdf document viewer like LiquidText for both MacOS and Linux. I put my e-mail address in for hearing about the MacOS version.
I also think that I should be using it more. I might just be lazy and not using the right tools.
By the way, Jofish was the one who recommended LiquidText to me. I forgot to also follow up on his advice to send you some immediate thoughts I had in 2016; I'm not sure they'd still be useful, but here they are anyway:
> LiquidText really is good, and it makes me (mostly) happy reading textbooks digitally. My only complaint is that with long books, say 500 pages, I have a hard time scrolling to an exact point because it becomes too sensitive, but I'm not really sure how that could be fixed (maybe a reader device which a hollowed out book you can open up to a particular page? or maybe pointier fingers?) Search-and-pinch is one of the main ways I skip around, though creating temporary comments works well, too. I find "finger-between-pages" double-scroll causes it to crash too often with Springer pdfs, so I've just avoided that feature. Maybe what characterizes LiquidText is that it doesn't disincentivize jumping back and forth between different parts of a book too much.
> Every once in a while, if I want to think of buying something, I click the "multi-doc" button to see the advertisement. Though eventually I'll probably give the LiquidText people money just to support them.
Wow, thanks for the great insights!
Re: 2. Very much agree, we have a "vision" for addressing this, but it'll take time.
Re: 3. Desktop apps coming! :)
Re: 4. Ahh, yeah, for iPad version, it really shines with Pencil.
And thanks for the 2016-era feedback. Some of that should be better now.
And honored to hear Jofish recommended us! LMK if you want in on any of our desktop betas.
Fair point about the updates, we're getting ready to launch a few bigger ones (es. a Win and MacOS version). Hopefully we can improve the other flows you mention. (I'm founder @ LT)
Wish we could! Just not enough people yet--have to keep focused on max return on investment. :) But we do plan to make a web version down the line, and remove the platform dependence entirely (or at least largely).
Hi, long time liquid text user here. I’ve been asking for this simple feature forever but it’s never been implemented. Can we just create a dang blank document? I know we can import documents and webpages, but how hard would it be to just let us start off with a blank paged document without having to import something?
