Need Better Evernote/Reference app integration – MarginNote 2 Review

It is a great app to learning and reading academic literatures. However, I find myself having trouble sync the read/studied paper in cloud when my own iPad/Mac is not around. For example if I want to read on my lab’s mac, I will either install a new MarginNote (and buy a license for that as well?) or I could only export the read file as a pdf, upload it to my Evernote, then open my Evernote on my lab’s Mac to read it. This makes it very difficult to keep my notes and reading progress up to date on all devices, so I have to bring my iPad around all the time and I have to stay on my iPad for the reading tasks. In addition, MarginNote has no integration with Mendeley or Zotero or any reference managing apps/services, that even though I use this as my major reading app, I have to keep a separate copy of all my papers into my references management apps. And none of my notes are synced to those references apps, so when writing new papers I will need to switch back and forth between apps to be able to find my notes of a specific paper and add citations of the same paper from another app. Another thing is I wish the app has better Apple Pencil support. I have tried to write handwriting notes on my papers while I read to keep me actively reading instead of wandering off the paper, but the writing is not very smooth and look kind of weird to be honest. This has not been an old feature and hopefully we can see some improvements soon. This is a good app for reading and studying. I think what I spent (I bought pro for both iPad and Mac version) is worth it, but I wish you can make it better. The apps haven’t been updated in a while now and I really hope that you can constantly improve it. Thank you very much!
Review by msjduua on MarginNote 2.

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