The best iPad app for taking notes on documents just got a huge upgrade

It's like a virtual desk on your iPad, but better.
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Kellen Beck
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The best iPad app for taking notes on documents just got a huge upgrade
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LiquidText is the go-to iPad app for reading and taking notes on documents, whether they're Word docs, PDFs or PowerPoint presentations. You can pull out sections of documents for reference and take notes on them, eliminating the need to print out your documents for editing and studying.

After its 2.0 update, LiquidText now allows you to work with multiple documents at once after a one-time, in-app purchase. 

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Just drag and drop the documents you want to work with into your workspace and you can easily switch between them or view the documents side-by-side. After grouping up documents, you can quickly search within all of them at once.


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You can pull out excerpts on multiple documents and group them together for easy viewing. If you have a graph on a PowerPoint presentation and some corresponding text on a Word document or PDF, you can group those together by highlighting them and dragging them out together.

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Like the Microsoft suite and Google Docs, you can leave comments on the documents as well, but with LiquidText you can leave a comment that points to more than one document. After you make the comment, you can tap it and pull up the corresponding document sections.

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If you're working on a project that requires looking at multiple documents at once, LiquidText's latest update could be a huge help if you want to keep your work in a digital space. 

The app itself is free, but to use the new multiple document feature you'll have to pay $8.99.

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Kellen is a science reporter at Mashable, covering space, environmentalism, sustainability, and future tech. Previously, Kellen has covered entertainment, gaming, esports, and consumer tech at Mashable. Follow him on Twitter @Kellenbeck

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