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Yeah, I noticed it last month (insider builds). Can’t call them out for being lazy too much, as Chrome did the same thing. But still, not a fan of the new icons.
Hell, even Skim (https://skim-app.sourceforge.io/) has a decent Big Sur icon.
> Do you guys use any anti virus?
No. Apple transfers virus identifier files to Macs on a regular basis, so a Mac can already defend itself against viruses. Macs also have a built-in Firewall which you can (and should) activate in the Settings. Also, well over 90% of all viruses that target the OS directly are for Windows, so they wouldn't work on a Mac anyway. Furthermore, antivirus software tends to burry itself deep into the operating system and can cause slowness, or at worst instability.
> Never used safari either, any apps like ad blocker?
Safari has adblockers, e.g. 1Blocker and Wipr. Though I vastly prefer uBlock Origin on Chrome (more effective, can use more adblocking lists).
> Has anyone combined workflow with the ipad pro?
There are useful Sync features, e.g. Notes Sync, Calendar Sync, Safari bookmarks and tabs Sync etc. Starting with macOS 10.15 Catalina and iPadOS 13 scheduled to release this wall, you can also use the iPad Pro as a secondary mnitor with your MacBook, which is cool.
Must have apps for me:
As a media player, I like IINA, better than VLC in my opinion, lightweight & stable, makes great use of the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar:
iMazing is a great management tool for your iPad with various backup & restore options, you can also save (not run!) your iPad apps locally on your Mac, which is useful if Apple deletes an app from the Mac App Store or if you want to return to an older version of some app:
If you want a customizable and lightweight PDF reader with great annotation features, I highly recommend Skim:
Great project! The features are very impressive!
Jumping back and forth between the references and the main content could be annoying though. Since I discovered Skim several years ago, I have been unable to use another software for reading research papers because of a single (killer) feature: Hovering the mouse pointer over a link will show its destination (check this screenshot to see what I mean). I hope you could implement a similar feature for Sioyek.
> At the moment, each section is a rectangular portion of a PDF page, with optionally a question/title attached. It is very easy to export a JSON from it (without the PDF itself, just the coordinates of the sections), but maybe there is a better way to import it directly to Anki. The best would be to use an add-on that is already capable of showing portions of PDF files, so the output of DoYouNotes could be used in Anki right away.
Currently, I use an app called skim extensively to read PDFs and one of the really nice things about Skim is that it saves stuff that I highlight in a separate file. The great thing about this is that those files are searchable in macOS, making it easy for me to interact with it. The not-so great part of it is that there is still a switch in context where I have to switch over to Markdown formulate a few cards, get those imported to Anki.
What am I getting at here is that your App could work really if your app lets me add some (minimal) text to what might be a question at a particular set of coordinates, and also let me download those things into any structured text form, e.g. MD or JSON then I can load that into Anki while using your app.
So I think what you are saying might work out of the box? I personally don't care about loading the entire PDF into Anki, just whatever pieces of the PDF that I highlighted or typed into.
Skim is a venerable free and open-source PDF annotation app with some powerful features. I like that I can save the annotations to a side-car file so the original PDF stays pristine.
Skim (https://skim-app.sourceforge.io/) has support for a similar feature which should do what you need. It is called "Split PDF" and is found under the View menu.
However, it is technically the same window (rather than 2 completely separate instances), and it can only do (as far as I know) the vertical split.
If you consider Skim be sure that you understand that Skim has the feature to use a non-standard highlighting format that even can be saved in an extra file. This is great for peace of mind when you want to keep your highlights around. But skims format is not readable by other pdf readers:
> The highlights are saved with the document, so also other Skim users can see them. The highlights are not saved in the PDF data itself, therefore other PDF viewers will probably not be able to show the highlights.
This includes iPad PDF readers, too. I didn’t mind it when I was a student because Skim is really good. But you basically hard commit to Skim forever if you use it for a while and accumulate highlights.
I used to recommend Skim. It’s close to ideal. It needs one change to be perfect, but they refuse to fix it. Might still be useful to you.
Maybe you should specify what you like and need from PDF Expert, since, from my point of view, Preview (the default Apple app) is good.
For alternatives, depending on the features that you want:
Maybe you should specify what you like and need from PDF Expert, since, from my point of view, Preview (the default Apple app) is good.
For alternatives, depending on the features that you want:
Maybe you should specify what you like and need from PDF Expert, since, from my point of view, Preview (the default Apple app) is good.
For alternatives, depending on the features that you want:
If you're too lazy to click the links Ms. Cai provides, perhaps I can shame you into clicking these.
https://macvim-dev.github.io/macvim/
Unfortunately there is no way of doing that, the only access we have to the highlight feature is to create them. In fact from a little light reading on the Web, it looks to be a fairly unusual capability all around, even among dedicated PDF software like Adobe's stuff.
I would recommend the open source software, Skim. You can open PDF files out of Scrivener into a program like that, using it for annotation, and export notes to RTF. It's also possible to "bake in" your Skim annotations so that they become visible in other programs (like Scrivener)---but do be aware that in doing so they will be lost to Skim for the purposes of being considered notes it can work with. It after all uses the same toolkit we do and are subject to its limitations.
Are you aware of Skim? The "about page" in the app says:
> This software is licensed under the BSD License: https://skim-app.sourceforge.io/license.txt