PowerNotes Research

Name: PowerNotes Research
Rating: 3.9444444444444446 (36 reviews)
Author: https://powernotes.com/

PowerNotes is a productivity tool that allows you to gather, organize, and track internet research easily and efficiently.

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PowerNotes Research is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance research productivity by allowing users to quickly save and organize passages from web pages, PDFs, and other digital sources without leaving the source. It features a flexible organizational framework enabling researchers to create annotated outlines seamlessly while gathering information. All saved content syncs to the cloud, ensuring easy access across devices.

In addition, PowerNotes provides a user-friendly web app for reviewing and reorganizing research through drag-and-drop note cards and custom notes. Users can transform their compiled research into structured writing outlines and export them as MS Word documents, Google Docs, spreadsheets, or RIS files. This comprehensive tool streamlines the transition from research to writing, eliminating tedious copy-pasting and enhancing workflow efficiency.

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By:

https://powernotes.com/

Users:

20,000

Rating:

3.94

(36)

Version:

0.86.9 Last updated: 2025-05-28

Creation date:

2020-06-03

Risk:

Permissions:

scripting
tabs
storage
background
activeTab
webRequest
declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
webNavigation
clipboardWrite
contextMenus

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

7.63MB

Email:

co*****@powernotes.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-11

Ranking

# 5,830 ▲ 62

Other rankings

#3008 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 4 #21 in research keyword 42 ▼ 2 #62 in fastest way keyword 26 ▲ 1 #196 in blog keyword 4

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PowerNotes Research (v0.85.18)

474 4.11

(9)

User reviews

PowerNotes Research is praised for its intuitive design, ease of use, and strong utility in organizing research and writing projects, especially among students and academics. Users appreciate its ability to streamline note-taking, source management, and idea organization. However, frustrations arise due to performance issues like slowness, page freezing, and bugs disrupting browser functionality. The extension's interface can be intrusive, and some features such as project limits in the free version and lack of collapsible topics are noted drawbacks. Overall, it's a powerful tool with room for technical improvements.

Pros

Highly efficient and easy to use note-taking and web clipping tool
Great for organizing research materials, especially for academics and students
Improves writing process by facilitating idea organization and source documentation
Helps streamline research and writing projects, making them more manageable
Intuitive interface and useful features like citation generation and export tools

Cons

Slowness and unresponsiveness leading to frustration
Bugs causing usability issues like page freezing and glitches
Limited functionality in free version, specifically only one project allowed
Interface can be intrusive or block portions of the screen
Lack of features like 'expand/collapse all' topics and auto-scroll in sidebar

Recent reviews

Unbelievably slow and cumbersome. Id rather take hire a monkey to take notes in mandarin and have to manually translate it myself

Da*****, 2025-02-19

really really good idea and for the most part is very helpful but i am so sick of wanting to do something simple that the website offers but then the page goes unresponsive??? without fail every single time i try to add a comment to something it goes unresponsive and makes me reload the page. it is incredibly frustrating.

Aa*****, 2023-12-09

very bad

Da*****, 2023-05-22

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Risk impact

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PowerNotes Research requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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PowerNotes Research has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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