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If, however, you are stuck in a world of “please take a look at page 187 line 9-11 of document XY”, I am glad that LiquidText also has “old world”-inspired features like jumping to a particular page using a shortcut (Ctrl+G in this case). Once you have extracted a number of words to your workspace, you can copy them very conveniently using the lasso function and paste them, for example, into an excel file to create a glossary. If you double-click on a word (or any part of a document you have selected) and choose “auto excerpt”, it will copy the word to your workspace automatically. It is equally easy to create links between passages of different documents. Like this you can create a selection of the most important text passages while keeping the link to the source document. You can excerpt parts of the document and paste them into your notes (“workspace”) very easily. LiquidText is all about interconnecting and extracting ideas. If you are more of a keyboard person, you can press Shift and scroll to get the same effect. It has marvelous gesture control features, especially the pinch gesture to collapse a document and only see your highlights, or your text search results.

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iPad) world – but it works just as fine on a Windows PC with or without a touchscreen. LiquidText clearly comes from a tablet (i.e. Let’s hope that Microsoft decides to integrate OCR again! So navigation is definitely not the strongest point of this tool (which also makes it the most paper-like option).Īll in all, OneNote is intuitive and colourful, which makes it a great companion for a paperless office.

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Once you have imported, say, a multi-page pdf into OneNote, you cannot jump to a particular page either, so this kind of self-made bookmark may be all the more helpful. I also used to miss a proper bookmarking function but found my way around this by inserting little text boxes saying “page 3 line 23” or simply “xxx” to highlight important paragraphs. One downside that put me off using OneNote recently is that the automatic OCR function that used to be included (and even worked for handwriting!) has somehow disappeared, which makes searching for text and copying words and inserting them into a glossary impossible. Like this you can create a potpourri of essential parts of different documents very conveniently. OneNote is also an excellent playground for the Microsoft snipping tool, which by pressing Windows+shift+S (⇧⌘4 on a Mac) lets you take a snapshot from all or part of your PC screen in no time.

I also appreciate the fact that, when jumping back and forth between documents, they remain “open” on the page I had last viewed, instead of automatically going back to page one. To me, this makes all the difference when I need to find my way around different “piles” of documents in a split second or know in which section I am in the first place. I absolutely love the fact that you can give special background colours to different pages. It converts your handwriting to text, and you can even insert voice notes/audio files and videos. You can import all sorts of documents (using the “insert/file printout” function) and annotate them using your pen on a touchscreen or typing on the keyboard. It is organised in “notebooks” and sections that look like card files. This is probably the reason why it comes closest to what some of us remember as a paper-only office. OneNote has been around for ages – at least in Germany some might remember Mark Kreuzer( paperless experiment back in 2012, or my blog post from 2014. So here are my top 3: Microsoft OneNote – the classic So I thought it might be useful to give a short overview of my top three, OneNote, LiquidText, and PDF XChange Editor, with their pros and cons – hoping that this might inspire you, dear readers, to give me some further tips and recommendations. When it comes to handling heaps of documents on one single screen (or two or three), I just can’t decide which document management program best serves my purpose.