The selection jumped around in unpredictable ways whenever a footnote or endnote was within the desired selection or nearby. (I can’t show screenshots of it because that would expose the client’s work product.) The trouble seemed to be most commonly associated with footnotes. On the very first document I tried, Highlights wouldn’t select the text I wanted it to, overselecting in certain areas and underselecting in others.

So I put copies of those documents in a new folder and started going through them in Highlights to see how much more effective it would be than my current system. I subscribed to the Pro version (necessary to get plain text exporting) so I could give it a try.Īs luck would have it, I had just finished a couple of projects in which I had done a fair amount of document summarizing. 1 It seems like a perfect fit for how I want to work. Highlights is a focused app with a straightforward user interface for highlighting and commenting on text in a PDF, and it can export the highlighted text as plain text. But my experiment with Highlights led me to giving LiquidText another try, and with a new perspective on how to use it, LiquidText fits my highlighting needs pretty well. Ironically, it was very bad at highlighting text in the kinds of documents I deal with. After trying it out on a few PDF documents that needed to be summarized for my job, I learned that it wasn’t going to work for me. I decided to get a copy of Highlights after reading this John Voorhees review in MacStories. Next post Previous post Highlighting with Highlights and LiquidText

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