Keypoints is a Mac application designed to facilitate note-taking and PDF annotation, with a particular focus on helping users collect, organize, and work with excerpts and quotations from their reading. The tool enables users to highlight text within PDFs and automatically extracts these highlights into individual notes, appending relevant source information such as page numbers and publication metadata. This approach is intended to support the development of a personal knowledge base by making it easier to gather and manage important information from research materials.
Each note created in Keypoints can include a title, the quoted text, and optional user comments. Additional features allow users to assign keywords, color labels, star ratings, and links to other notes, providing multiple ways to categorize and connect information. All these elements are hot-linked, enabling quick navigation between related notes. Notes can be grouped and searched independently of the original PDF, which helps users locate specific quotations or ideas without needing to revisit the source document.
Keypoints stores notes in Markdown format and mirrors each note as a plaintext file on the user's disk, supporting integration with other applications and workflows. The app offers scripting capabilities to facilitate automation and deeper integration with third-party tools such as DEVONthink, OmniOutliner, Evernote, Papers 3, Bookends, and Skim. This makes it suitable for users who wish to extend their research workflows or connect their notes with other productivity or reference management software.
The app is described as "upcoming" and is currently available for Mac, with some features still in development and possibly unavailable in preview releases. No information is provided regarding pricing or licensing. Keypoints is positioned as a tool for those who want to actively work with information extracted from PDFs, such as researchers, students, or anyone building a structured knowledge base from their reading.
Keypoints sits in PulseGate's Notes & docs category. It focuses on organizing and extracting key information from PDF documents for research and study. Keypoints is a consumer product aimed at researchers and students using Mac. Pricing is paid. Keypoints is available on the web and macOS.
Keypoints first shipped in 2025. Across PulseGate's embedding index, Keypoints has few near neighbours, marking it as relatively distinct. Among its 5 catalogued features are PDF annotation, highlight extraction, and note organization. Keypoints is currently in beta.
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