PowerNotes Research

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

PowerNotes Research - Efficient Tool for Online Research & Writing

"PowerNotes Research" is a productivity enhancing Chrome extension that allows researchers to save passages from the web, PDFs, and digital materials, organize them into a custom framework, and track research efficiently. It eliminates the need for copy-pasting and simplifies the process of transforming research data into a ready-to-write outline, making the leap from research to writing seamless and convenient.
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Extension stats

Users: 20,000+
Rating: 4.09
(34)
Version: 0.86.2 (Last updated: 2024-11-26)
Creation date: 2020-06-03
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • scripting
  • tabs
  • storage
  • background
  • activeTab
  • webRequest
  • declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
  • webNavigation
  • clipboardWrite
  • contextMenus
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 7.94M

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Extension summary

PowerNotes helps researchers make the leap from research to writing. First, the browser extension gives you the fastest way to save passages from the web, PDFs, and other digital materials. When you save a passage, you will also organize it and take notes. All saving will be done without leaving the source, so you won't need to copy and paste anymore! Also, the organizational structure is up to you. PowerNotes gives you a flexible organizational framework so that you can make the framework more sophisticated over time. So when you are doing research, you won't just be saving content, you will be creating an annotated outline at the same time. Everything that you gather will be saved in the Cloud.

Once you've gathered your research, you can view an outline of your research in our web app, where you can assess and reorganize it. We built an interface specifically designed for reorganization. You can just drag and drop your digital note cards, move them around with a simple menu (again, no more copy and pasting), and create blank note cards to incorporate your own thoughts. You can even turn your research outline into a writing outline so that you can more easily start that first draft. You can download your research into a MS Word or Google Doc, a spreadsheet, or RIS file.

For more information, visit our blog at: https://www.powernotes.com/resources/blog

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Super intuitive and user-friendly interface
  • Great organizational tool for research and note-taking
  • Helps streamline writing and documentation process
  • Useful features like citation generation and export tools
  • Significantly improves research efficiency
Cons
  • Bugs causing unresponsiveness and browser usability issues
  • Lack of options for collapsing topics in the sidebar
  • Intrusive interface elements that can block screen space
  • Limited functionality in some academic services
  • Only one project allowed in the free version
Most mentioned
  • Bugs and unresponsiveness
  • User-friendly interface
  • Organizational capabilities
  • Must-have for students and researchers
  • Desire for additional features like expand/collapse all
User reviews
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.
by Aalyn Antrobus, 2023-12-09

very bad
by David Davidson, 2023-05-22

Excellent app and overall very easy to use. My one major issue is that there's no way to collapse all your topics for a project without manually doing so one-by-one. This is especially annoying with when using the popup sidebar since there's no way to have the program auto-scroll down to a specific topic on your list. I want some kind of "expand/collapse all" command. Also, if you HAVE collapsed some topics and left others expanded for some specific reason, but then load a new tab and bring the sidebar up again, it will still show all of the topics fully expanded. I will happily change my rating to 5 stars once this has been addressed
by Elizabeth Knight, 2023-05-13
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