Hi folks, thanks so much for including us on Product Hunt! Let me know if I can answer any questions.
LiquidText 2.0 is really about helping people understand information even when it's spread across many different sources.
Here's a quick demo of the new version
Report
@craigtashman will you be adding any handwriting options with the apple pencil?
@robertmckee We absolutely plan to! It's more technically complex than it ought to be in our case, but we want to start work soon, and we're hoping to launch it around the end of the summer!
Report
@craigtashman great to hear. That feature is what was missing for me. I will go back to liquidtext and retry it. I look forward to seeing what you come up with. The other features are definitely innovative interface designs.
@robertmckee Thanks a lot, I'm glad the rest of it resonates! And hopefully soon we'll get out the inking as well.
Report
@craigtashman Can we get it for Android or Windows soon?
Report
This looks awesome! I am a PhD student and reading scientific papers in PDF is rather painful when you need to scroll back and forth for graphs etc..Not to mention comparing multiple docs! Would it come to Mac? or even PC?
@rangerq Thanks so much! LiquidText actually came out of a PhD dissertation in interactive computing, so it's wonderful to see it being used in that setting! As for other versions, we hope to release Mac and PC versions--it's a big project to port it, but ideally we'd like to launch Mac and PC versions in Q1 2017.
Report
@craigtashman That's great, thanks! It's worth waiting! I have purchased multi-doc to show my support:) It's just that iPad screen is rather small for scientific journal formatted PDFs, in the layout of Liquid Text... By the way, is it possible to have Evernote integration in the future?
@rangerq Thanks so much for your support! Evernote may be a little tricky, but what I can do is upvote it for you on our request list. If we get enough votes, we'll see about adding it!
Report
Are Android or Windows options anywhere on the horizon? Love the concept but I'm tied down.
@nnewbykew Thanks a lot! We don't have anything planned for Android right now, but we are hoping to launch something for Windows in the future. Ideally, we hope to get it out in early 2017. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Report
@nnewbykew@craigtashman Is the Windows version still in your plan? I think it would be great to be used with Surface. If not, maybe I need to buy a iPad Pro on Black Friday
Report
I don't have an iPad, but I'll make sure that I download this app once I get one! Love the excerpts feature: I could see myself using that a lot. Really cool idea!
@louthinker Thanks a lot! In the future we hope to have a Mac version as well, but for now the iPad is still required. Best wishes with it once you get your iPad :), and let me know if you have any questions.
Report
@craigtashman I understand that, since the iPad seems like the best device for your app. Though I'll stay tuned for the Mac version too!
Report
@craigtashman The Mac version will be definitely the Must have. I do not use my iPad for this kind of text study work but my Mac, and I've been looking for this for ages ! Can't wait for it
@jebasle Thanks so much, I hope we can get it out soon! Let me know if you have any questions!
Report
This strikes me as extremely useful for legal docs. So often when reading legal documents I've had to print off the entire thing and lay it out in front of me to have all the references (as well as printing out the relevant legislation). LiquidText looks like it could help quite a lot with that!
@gideonfarrell Thanks a lot! I think you're quite right--we actually have a lot of legal professionals using LiquidText! But your larger point about print-outs is so true; working with paper is pretty awkward, that was a big part of what research found; our hope in designing LiquidText was to make something truly better than paper.
Report
@craigtashman@gideonfarrell absolutely! i use it to read cases etc too. one question: are there any plans for a laptop/desktop/webapp? as a law student/ soon-to-be lawyer, iPad is still not good enough to be my primary device.
@leejien@gideonfarrell Thanks a lot! Actually yes; we're hoping to build a desktop version soon. It's a big project but ideally we'd want to launch it in early 2017 for both PC and Mac!
@tombarys Thanks so much, Tomas! We really appreciate it!
Report
@craigtashman It really improved my workflow so much – the approach goes behind all boring PDF annotate tools and is even very usable. The only weaker features are exports: I would appreciate exporting workspace – to both PDF and some mindmap file (OPML/.mm?) + with the same granular options when exporting PDF as when exporting DOCs. Best!
@tombarys I completely agree--we struggled with the best way to deal with exporting the workspace. But we'll likely be adding a visual workspace PDF export (to complement the more linear DOC export) soon. Possibly in the next month or so!
@amitsonawane Thanks a lot! Yes, it does--it has some special features for importing/exporting especially seamlessly from/to Dropbox and Box, but also supports importing/exporting from/to anything that supports the iOS file picker system, which includes OneDrive, Google Drive, and others.
@janikeyc Ah, thanks a lot! Yes, we've had some interest in the eBook formats, so we'll keep that in mind. For right now though, there are several web services that will convert eBooks to PDF, which might be the fastest way to get them into LiquidText for right now. Thanks so much again, though!
Replies
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS
LiquidText for MacOS