Search & Filter in Notes Sidebar

This is one of the most important features in MarginNote 3, but seems to be missing in MarginNote 4.

  • Ability to search the notes list or filter by tags.
  • Ability to show chapter headings in the notes list.
  • Ability to view the notes sidebar and document search sidebar at the same time.

Images to demonstrate:

MarginNote 3:

MarginNote 4:

Without these features, I wouldn’t be able to upgrade to MN4. When conducting research in large documents, the ability to search and filter through hundreds of annotations is really useful, so I’d say it’s one of the most important features in MarginNote.

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Hello

Can you please explain your needs and usage scenarios with screenshots? This is more conducive to our understanding of your needs! Thank you!

Kind Regards,

Support Team

Hello.

I don’t really have any screenshots, but the main reason is that on some PDFs, I might have over 100 annotations. If I want to quickly view annotations for a specific topic, I need to be able to search/filter the annotations list. Otherwise, I would have to manually check every annotation in the list, which slows down my workflow quite a lot.

Thank you.

Hi there Aurelius,
I had the same concern when I upgraded as I was a heavy user of the notes/outline in MN3. The functionality is still in there and you can access it whether you are in Document or MindMap/StudySet mode. Look above your list of annotations to find the Card button and hit that, which presents you with the same list of notes plus a search/filter bar at the top. In Document mode you cannot reorder them, but in StudySet mode you can.

Screen grabs below to show what I mean.