NowLedge is a book-focused note taking app that works with PDF files. Read your book like you would do with a PDF Reader, take highlights and add notes in bullet point format. Your notes are displayed nicely in a grid format when needed.

Hello! NowLedge is an app for taking highlights in books in PDF format, allowing users to take highlights very easily as they go through the book, save them and display them nicely when needed. The end goal is to build a product that helps to achieve maximum information extraction from a given document. I started with a focus on books because that’s what I needed, in a sense NowLedge was built to solve a problem I had. I have a lot of digital books, especially books that I want to learn from. For that purpose, I need to take notes of my understanding as I read the book, this is a common technique for using educational books efficiently. The problem is that I am a lazy and messy person; I looked at solutions to help me easily achieve that and I could not find something that had a minimalistic interface, was really simple to use and ergonomic enough to highlight PDF documents. Since I could not find what I wanted, I decided to build it myself. As of now, NowLedge answers to 80% of my demands: I can now read a book that I enjoy learning from, take efficient notes as I read it , access them very easily in a nice grid formatted page and download my “understanding” of the book in a matter of minutes. This works as I actually have all of the information that I want to recall from the book in that grid. What I find funny is that now, when I read a book, my final goal is just to build this grid, I don’t care about reading all of the book. I optimize my time and try to find directly the information I want to save it in my highlights grid. I personally find this approach really efficient to learn from any books. My next focus would be to be able to export highlights easily and to have a nice interface for white books, research papers, this has been asked many times by the beta testers. I really hope that you will find it useful and that it can solves a problem you have, it solved mine :) Have a good day! Some really good free e-book I recommend to try the app, Getting Real from Basecamp Start Marketing the day your start coding from Rob Walling (This post is an extract of my blog post: https://tichit.net/posts/nowledge/ )

That's exactly what I was looking for to annotate my readings !

@malik3 Thanks man, really appreciated !

This is promising! I'll give it a try with the white paper I'm currently reading

wow this is very helpful tool

@vivekweb2013 Thanks mate, I built NowLedge for myself first because this was indeed a painful problem I had :) There is a cost of entry, in the sense that you need to annotate a full book with it before seeing all of the benefits but in total objectivity I've read more than 5 books with NowLedge and could not do without it now. If it's useful for you I'm happy :)

That's exactly what I was looking for to annotate my readings !

@malik3 Thanks man, really appreciated !

This is promising! I'll give it a try with the white paper I'm currently reading

wow this is very helpful tool

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Take notes easily from your books in PDF

Take notes easily from your books in PDF