![]() ![]() Tap any note or excerpt to return to the source point in the document. With the new ink feature, you can connect anything by drawing a line - connect a note to a spot in the text or connect notes and highlights to each other. You can add notes anywhere in the workspace, either typed or freehand. You can move excerpts around or group them together simply by dragging one over another. With the new ink feature, you can simply lasso the text and drag it to the workspace.Įxcerpts always remain linked to the spot in the document where you found them. As you read, you can excerpt text by highlighting it and dragging it to this workspace. This appears to the right of the document in horizontal view and below it in vertical mode. “Here’s one of the first that really tries to rethink how the tablet, touch and pen can improve research, discovery, trial prep, etc.”Įvery document you read in LiquidText is accompanied by a workspace. “Legal apps to date tend to use touch and pen the way we use a mouse and keyboard,” Tashman said. I tested a pre-release version on an iPad Air 2 and it worked well.Ĭraig Tashman, founder and CEO of LiquidText, says this new version reimagines ink as LiquidText first reimagined touch in 2015. While this new feature is optimized for the iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil, it works on earlier iPad versions as well using any stylus. Today’s release takes it to the next level by adding freehand inking - the ability to write anywhere within LiquidText, to connect anything just by drawing a line, and to excerpt anything just by drawing a circle around it. But the essence of it is, as the name suggests, that it turns documents into a more fluid experience that lets you more effectively highlight, select, annotate and connect portions of a document (or of multiple documents with the paid version) in order to enhance your comprehension. The basic app is free, so if you have an iPad, I urge you to install it and try it for yourself. David Sparks at MacSparky called it a better way to review long PDF documents and Neil Squillante wrote favorably about it at TechnoLawyer Blog.Įxactly what LiquidText does is better seen than explained, which is why I’ve include the video above showing the new ink feature. Legal industry reviewers have also praised it. Since coming on the market, it has won praise from many corners, including having been named by Apple as the most innovative iPad app of 2015 and by Time magazine as one of the 10 best apps for iPad Pro. The app is called LiquidText and it has been available since 2015. Out today is a significant enhancement to an app that may forever change how you read and annotate complex documents - at least if you use an iPad and especially if you use an iPad Pro. ![]()
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