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PowerNotes

This research and note-taking tool enables you to create outlines, annotate, cite, and share your work.

Your Project Dashboard

You can do many things from the PowerNotes project dashboard including:

  • View, sort, and filter content on your project dashboard
  • Add topics and delete projects
  • Share and leave projects
  • Use the navigation toolbar
  • Access a project outline

View the video below to learn more about your project dashboard.

Creating a New Project

You can create a new project from your project dashboard or from the PowerNotes browser extension. You can name your project, add a description to it, as well as set up an unlimited number of custom topics or highlighters. View the video below to learn more.

Taking & Organizing Notes

You can use the PowerNotes extension to highlight, categorize, and save quotes from websites and PDFs to your PowerNotes project. You'll have the option of adding a note and source info will automatically be tracked. You can also bookmark pages for later, screenshot or save images, and add blank note cards to your work. View the video below to learn more.

Bookmarking pages

With PowerNotes you can bookmark websites and PDFs for later. You can add a note to a bookmark, as well as, file bookmarks into any of your custom topics within your project. View the video below to learn more.

Adding Freeform Notes

With freeform notes, you can add a blank note card to your PowerNotes project. You can use freeform notes to add a question, idea, note, or quote from a non-digital source, or anything else to your project. Freeform notes can be categorized within your project topics, and can be added from the PowerNotes extension or from your project outline. View the video below to learn more.

Saving Images to your Project

With PowerNotes, you have the ability to add images and screenshots to projects. There are two ways to capture and add images to a PowerNotes project. Right-click on an image or use the screenshot feature in the PowerNotes extension. You also have the option of adding a note to the image. Like with highlighted quotes, PowerNotes will automatically capture an image's source info. Watch the video below to learn more.

Source Tracking and Citation Management

PowerNotes can now automatically capture and format citations. View the video below to learn more.

Project Sharing and Collaboration

With PowerNotes Share and Collaboration you can create a project with a group for a team project. Additionally, you can share a project of yours with an instructor, classmate, friend, or anyone else in order to receive feedback on your sources, commentary, and organization. You can also designate people as Editors or Commenters. View the video below to learn more.