Writeaday vs Margin Note

Definitely a solid bullet journal-type app. I've been using it onand off for years, and I've always loved it. The one and only thing I would change is the dusk theme: when using it and looking through your tags, the list of tags are white text on a white background, making it near impossible to use. Luckily, it's still useable in night mode, but I really wish dusk worked. ):

- Aselyn Morris

Love this app, it's beautiful, easy to use and nice for revisiting past thoughts or ideas. However, it glitches every day now and is in need of an update. It does not allow you to edit an entry without only being able to view about a sentance at a time. It's very hard to get over that part. You also sometimes cannot view your full entry without the same glitch occuring. Without any of the common glitches others have mentioned, it would be an easy 5 stars! I just really cant use it this way.

- Kat Turner

I really love the layout of the app and have a slight issue. Everytime I write in the morning and evening area, the content deletes. I seem to have this issue frequently. When I swipe back to the main screen, it sometimes saves the entries and other times it doesn't. If my screen rotates I have the same issue - the entry deletes and I start over. I do love the UI. Thank you for making this app and for your time. Have a great day!

- Kayla Daniels

I’ve used 3 versions of MarginNote over the years, both on my iPads and Macs. A lot has changed, but a lot hasn’t. Each time a new version comes out, I wonder if I want to spend the money and research what else is out there. Maybe I find something interesting and try it, or maybe I don’t, but I always come back. There’s just nothing else that does what MN does. A lot of the other reviews cover why I look elsewhere from time to time... the app can be inexplicably weird or counter-intuitive or just a little bit off sometimes. I can often get it to do what I need, but not without frustration. Often times, where it fails are in standard UX practices that almost every other app follows, but MN chooses to ignore those and do things its own way. I’m not a student, so I’m not making flash cards or anything like that, but I do a lot of research. I really like the ability to add multiple documents to one project. I have one with at least a couple of dozen PDFs and epubs, not small ones either, and MN doesn’t complain. There are occasional sync issues, but I’ve gotten good at backing up and—knock on wood—haven’t lost anything yet. I think if you’re only using it one system, that won’t be a factor.

- Therealironhulk

There is only one competitor app to be MarginNote's alternative and that's the Liquid Text. While their UI is much prettier and cleaner. They have just a really poor mind map experience. What I like about MarginNote in contrast with LiquidText is just how much more organized it is. In LiquidText almost any accidental touch on the mindmap ruins it. Also it's a web of what you put where ever you wish to. In MarginNote however, you have an app that organizes the mindmap into a chart with direct branches that you do not decide how to be put. It organizes the look and keeps it which is just so amazing. It just makes me more and more relaxed to be in the app vs LiquidText. And also in the LiquidText you cannot have book-free studies to just have bookmarks. But the research tool is horribly made. There is no link to the OS dictionary. Or any good offline dictionary. The UI seems horrible and has so many problems. It is just the worst part of any app I've seen. Hope that gets fixed someday. And as far as the price comes, I think it's much cheaper than LiquidText which is awesome.

- pmkary

I had used another app ‘fluid’ for reading research articles, underlining and extracting text for summary and study until they crippled this in the free version and increased price for the paid. This app is far beyond that with a superb design for reading, study, organizing spaces, excellent pdf to text extraction and linear or mind mapping ways to relate to the text extractions and your notes both within and between documents. There is a learning curve for use but much is accessible playing around as well. I will be watching videos to learn better use. I have a lot of PDFs stored in Evernote and this app can access and load from within the app. I have used on my my iPhone when my iPad was not available and it’s workable but it is much more useful on a bigger screen. I like it so much that purchased the paid version and might even cough up the larger additional fee for the MacBook version. One of the few apps that is worth the purchase price and more. Excellent!

- JimK