throwaway72v2

To speak for myself, I don't care about ink. I don't even use Apple's pencil. I want to type things into a comment box and be able to search for what I typed later.

This app got started in 2012. It's 2020, and I can't.

I tried LiquidText some time ago, as it looked well suited for the intense period of self-learning I was about to embark on. It was indeed very good overall, except for the lack of one essential feature, which was an absolute deal-breaker:

I can't search for my own notes.

The searches turn up everything in the texts written by others that you put into this app, but not the stuff you yourself write.

No serious learning from any non-trivial text is possible unless the learner can engage in a dialogue with the text. There are entire books and academic journals dedicated to marginalia and reader commentary through the centuries. I'm not going to use a piece of learning-related technology if it renders me completely unable to go back to my own thoughts on a subject, which I put work into.