There’s a world of read-later apps, and then there’s a world of note-taking apps.
And there’s rarely any overlap.
GoodLinksfinds the sweet spot.
It’s a natively-designed read-later and link collection app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
It syncs securely using iCloud and can easily add and show articles from anywhere.
But the best part is that it comes with convenient research aids usually reserved for note-taking apps.
It’s like you’re using Apple Books, or a Kindle.
On Mac, select your text, right-click, chooseHighlightand the app automatically applies your default highlight color.
you’ve got the option to right-click again to change the color if you’d like.
On iPhone or iPad, select your text and use theHighlightoption from the pop up menu.
you’re able to tap the text again to change the color.
To change the default color, go toSettings>Highlights>Default color.
And then there’s the contextual note taking.
you’ve got the option to add notes to a highlight, or to any selected text.
Any text where you add a note will be highlighted automatically.
Here, just key in anything you want, and GoodLinks will save it with the highlighted text.
GoodLinks has a very nice design detail in the scroll bar.
It shows little color labels that correspond to your highlights, and the color of your highlights as well.
This makes it easy to track or quickly jump to a highlight just using the scroll bar.
you could even add a widget that will show your latest highlights on the iPhone home screen.
Sharing and exporting notes
Highlighting tools are most useful when they let you share your work.
This is something that GoodLinks excels at.
By default, you’re free to share all your highlights and notes in a single Markdown file.
On Mac, go toFile>Export Highlights.
On iPhone, theExportfeature is inside the three-dotMenubutton in the toolbar.
you’ve got the option to just copy it out in plain text.
In pricing too, GoodLinks is different.
The app costs $9.99 to buy outright for all Apple platforms.
The highlighting and note taking features are part of GoodLinks Premium, which isn’t exactly a subscription.
If you pay $4.99, you will get access to all new features released for one year.
If you cancel your payments, you get tokeepthe features released during the year you paid.
