Passages and markup
Clip selected text, preserve highlights and comments, or create your own notes without changing the source PDF.
PDF Max Workspace
Make evidence usable without losing where it came from.
Workspace is the durable container for documents, source-linked Cards, notes, relationships, Frames, Study, and Present. It turns a folder of PDFs into knowledge you can inspect and use.
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Documents to verifiable output
One source-linked knowledge flow.
The PDF remains the evidence layer while Cards and Frames become the working layer. You can study or present from the same accepted knowledge, then export without breaking the path back.
- Documents
Create, edit, read, annotate, OCR, fill, protect, and organize the source itself.
- Workspace
Turn exact passages and regions into connected, source-linked knowledge.
- Study or Present
Practice what you need to remember or shape Frames into a live explanation.
- Verifiable output
Export, present, save, or share work that still has a path back to its evidence.
Capture precisely
Take the evidence, not a disconnected copy.
Select exact material from the page and turn it into a Card. The Card can move, connect, and grow while its source reference remains available.
Images and tables
Use region capture to keep visual evidence or structured table content beside the rest of the argument.
Formulas and relationships
Capture formula regions, then connect Cards with relationships that state why the ideas belong together.
Organize and explain
Find the structure across the source pack.
Search, tag, filter, connect, and arrange Cards. Frames give an argument or analysis a named structure and become the sequence when you present live.
Search and filter
Find accepted knowledge across the active Workspace, then use tags and structured filters for multi-document work.
Connect relationships
Label why two Cards support, contradict, define, or otherwise relate to one another.
Arrange knowledge
Move Cards by hand or use Grid, hierarchical, radial, and force-directed layouts.
Build Frames
Gather a section of Cards into a named Frame and use the ordered Frames as a live presentation.
Synthesis included with Free
Read the same board a second way.
Synthesis is not a separate copy of your research. It is four ways of reading the Workspace you already built—so the board that captured the evidence is also the board that compares it.
Compare Sources
Put source passages side by side and see where they agree, conflict, or leave a gap unanswered.
Outline and Evidence
Project the same Cards as a structured outline or as an evidence table, without rearranging the board.
Triage lens
Sweep up captures you have not yet filed, so nothing you clipped is quietly forgotten.
Related Cards
Prior evidence resurfaces as you read, connecting a new source to work you already accepted.
Compare Sources, the Outline and Evidence projections, the triage lens, and Related Cards are included with Free in your complete editable Workspace.
Source return
Check the page before you make the claim.
Open the original PDF page from a Card or draw a visual tether to the supporting passage. Changed and missing sources remain visible, so a broken reference is not mistaken for verified evidence.
See source return in the feature catalogWorkspace by plan
Start with one Workspace. Build a source pack.
Plans expand Workspace capability without page, document, time, or action quotas.
Free
One complete multi-PDF Workspace
Capture text, markup, images, tables, and formulas; add tags and filters; use every layout and synthesis view; build Frames; Study; present; and return to the source.
Pro
Markdown research export
Export accepted Workspace knowledge to source-ordered Markdown, alongside Pro reusable signatures and page organization.
Premium
Multiple editable Workspaces and rich export
Keep multiple Workspaces editable and export accepted Workspace knowledge to PDF or Word.
Export the accepted knowledge
Preview the research before anything is written.
Stage Cards, notes, categories, source pages, and connections in a preview. Pro exports source-ordered Markdown; Premium adds PDF and Word from the same Workspace material.
From source pack to defensible work
Keep the evidence close.
Download PDF Max for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, then build your complete multi-PDF Workspace for free.
