eResources Spotlight: How to Use PowerNotes

Step 1: Install and enable the PowerNotes Chrome Extension and on Firefox.

Step 2: Go to any website or pdf and highlight some text

Step 3: Put the highlight in a topic (it’s easy to add and customize topics)

PowerNotes helps with some of the most difficult and time consuming parts of online research: gathering and keeping track of source materials, staying organized, and creating a research outline. Here’s how PowerNotes does it:

Capture text with the PowerNotes Chrome Extension

Stay organized with custom topics

• you can use PowerNotes to take notes in lecture, build study guides, manage research for papers, and to create scripts for presentations.
• PowerNotes for Law Students and Legal Research: https://youtu.be/hSpUaz1CK4I
• General user help page:  https://www.blog.powernotes.com/help
• HeinOnline blog post on using PowerNotes with Hein: https://home.heinonline.org/blog/2017/09/organize-your-research-with-heinonline-and-powernotes/

Track your progress with the Extension sidebar

• Freeform Notes: With Freeform Notes, you’ll have a way to add in your own thoughts, questions, and non-digital sources into your projects.

Edit and approve citation info

• If you want to view only highlights, notes, or citation info, you can make adjustments in the Content Filters section. In the Card Filters section, you can choose to display sources, bookmarks, and/or freeform notes.

Review and reorganize your research with project outlines

• Make highlights quickly. PowerNotes highlights entire words so you can save stuff fast.
• If you want to highlight one word or less, hold down the Command (Mac) or Control (PC) key as you highlight.
• The content of the Project Outline can now be sorted by Topic, Date, and Source.

Manage your research with projects

• can add photos, graphs, charts, and more to PowerNotes projects. To learn more about adding images to projects, check out this helpful post.
• A feature built ‘an automatic OCR’ into PowerNotes. Documents with over 200 pages must be submitted to the PowerNotes Team for manual processing.

To access PowerNotes, please click here.