Highlight PDF & automatically build mind-map

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I’ve tried MarginNote 3 and I love that there is a capability to have a Study that includes a collection of Documents and I have a split screen view: on the right side, I see a PDF and I can highlight it, on the left, there is a in which an annotation is added to it as soon as I modify it in the PDF. I can also connect these annotations as I want to build the mind map.

This is extremely useful if I want to comprehend some topic because I can see all my annotations in one place and I don’t need to switch between a bunch of documents.

Would be cool to have something like this in Obsidian. I love Canvas and that’s the only reason I use it. But a similar PDF highlight feature could really be something wow.

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You can somehow get something similar by relying on Zotero’s annotation feature and the Zotero Intergration obsidian plug-in. However, I would love to see something similar that is native to Obsidian. Hopefully that’s something the devs will consider now that we have the new PDF reader.

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Have you looked at the $12 premium version of MarkMind

I absolutely love the basic free version that lets me edit in either markdown or mindmap mode by pressing “Alt + M”

Obsidian markmind docs

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