Jotura
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Highlight a passage on your phone, and find it in your notes on every device.

Most reading apps keep your highlights to themselves. The Jotura reader on Android saves each highlight, and your comment on it, to a plain Markdown note for that book. The note syncs to your computer like any other, where you can link a quote into lecture notes, an essay outline or the notes on your next book.

How it goes in practice.

  1. Add the books

    Put EPUBs, PDFs and CBZ comics in your vault. Books up to 95 MB sync to the phone and wait for Wi-Fi unless you allow mobile data.

  2. Read and highlight

    Press and hold on a passage to highlight it in one of four colours and add a comment if you have one. Highlights work in EPUBs and in PDFs that contain text.

  3. Open the note

    Each book gets a Markdown note in your highlights folder, holding every quote and comment. Edit it on any device.

  4. Connect it

    Link quotes into lecture notes or an essay outline, and tag them by course or theme, like #history/victorian.

What helps along the way.

  • Continue reading on the phone lists the books you have started, and your place syncs privately between devices.
  • Delete a quote from the highlights note and the highlight leaves the book.
  • The phone searches by title and text. The desktop adds search by meaning.
  • The reader is on Android, and iOS is planned. The highlights notes open on every device.
Highlights / Middlemarch - Highlights.md

Middlemarch highlights

Highlights from [[Middlemarch.epub]] by George Eliot.

> It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Opens the essay on Dorothea. See [[essay-outline]].

The same app, seen from other kinds of work.

Research
Every paper for the project, searchable beside the notes you wrote about it.
Writing
The reading, the outline and the draft, linked together in one folder.
Consulting
Each client gets a folder of their own, and you can share one without opening the rest.
Operations
Runbooks the whole team can edit, with the history of every change kept.
Households
The shopping list, the trip and the boiler manual, shared with the people you live with.

Start with a folder you already have.

The app is free, works offline and needs no account. Jotura Sync is the paid part: it carries your notes to every device, keeps their history and lets you share them.

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