Third-Party App Integration ①: Understanding Note Backlinks

💡MarginNote 4 can generate two kinds of dedicated URLs—card URLs and interface URLs—to enable cross-platform integration with third-party apps and make it easy to share and collaborate on notes.

1 Generate & Get URLs

1.1 Generate & Get a Note Card URL

The URL tied to the unique ID of each MarginNote 4 card is likewise supported in third-party software. It is also a low-level mechanism of Apple's operating system, commonly known as a URL Scheme.

How to get a card's URL:

1. Select a mind map card and press the shortcut Shift+Command+C to copy the current card's URL to the clipboard.
2. Open the card editor → … More → Copy Card URL

1.2 Generate & Get an Interface URL

MarginNote 4 can also capture the frozen state of the current interface, which is distinct from a card URL. A card URL only jumps to a note's content, whereas an interface URL additionally preserves the user's window size, proportions, the state of each toggle, and even the default values of certain views—ensuring that the viewer's interface closely matches the one the original user sees after clicking the URL.

Interface URLs are commonly used for tutorial demonstrations: an instructor records an interface URL in a study set and shares it with learners, who can then use the URL to reach the same interface as the instructor.

Note, however, that if a learner already has their own view configuration, it will be overwritten by the instructor's default values and will then need to be readjusted. (The interface URLs used in the official tutorials detect the tutorial-reading state and restore the user's own configuration once the tutorial is finished.)

Getting the interface URL: Press the shortcut Command+Option+0 to copy the current interface URL to the clipboard.

2 Export and Open in Third-Party Apps

💡When you export to any of the supported formats, including Word and PDF, each one contains a MarginNote 4 hyperlink. Clicking the link in third-party software, or opening it via Safari, jumps the interface to the corresponding location in your MarginNote 4 notes, helping you recall the surrounding knowledge points.

The example shows Word; other formats work similarly:

💡Your notes belong to you. Convert them into many formats and use the URL Scheme for two-way jumping, so that multiple apps can jump back and forth to the source text. Integrate with powerful tools such as DEVONthink, OmniOutliner, Tinderbox, Evernote, and OmniFocus to build your personal knowledge management system.

A Note-Taking System — How to Use MarginNote3, DEVONThink3, TheBrain11, and nvALT as a Single App

A Note-Taking System — How to Use MarginNote3, DEVONThink3, TheBrain11, and nvALT as a Single App_bilibili_bilibili https://github.com/John15263/note-taking-system, views 11178, danmaku 4, likes 111, coins 69, favorites 306, shares 46, video creator john15263, author bio , related videos: The First Step in John's Reading Workflow — Information Flows from MarginNote3 into nvALT, Spice and Weapons-1-Installing Marginnote, DEVONThink, K https://www.bilibili.com/video/av90220643/

MarginNote and OmniFocus — How to Use MarginNote and OmniFocus for Reading-Task GTD

MarginNote and OmniFocus - How to Use MarginNote and OmniFocus for Reading-Task GTD_bilibili_bilibili Huangjinsheng 1.0: How to Use MarginNote and OmniFocus for Reading-Task GTD, views 1652, danmaku 0, likes 14, coins 2, favorites 24, shares 0, video creator john15263, author bio , related videos: The First Step in John's Reading Workflow — Information Flows from MarginNote3 into nvALT, MarginNote-DeepL, Spice and Weapons-1-Installing Marginnote, DEVONThi https://www.bilibili.com/video/av64216865/

MarginNote and Typora - How to Write Reading Notes with MarginNote - 1.0 - How to Input Quickly

MarginNote and Typora - How to Write Reading Notes with MarginNote - 1.0 - How to Input Quickly_bilibili_bilibili How to Write Reading Notes with MarginNote and Typora, views 1546, danmaku 0, likes 11, coins 4, favorites 18, shares 1, video creator john15263, author bio , related videos: MarginNote-DeepL, 【Readings】Why a Joke Stops Being Funny After Being Repeated Too Many Times, Little John Update: Moving Web Pages into MarginNote, How to Read English Papers Elegantly | Kumārajīva (Auto-Translate) and Key https://www.bilibili.com/video/av63440619/

Keyboard Maestro — Marginnote Power Tricks

Marginnote Power Tricks_bilibili_bilibili Marginnote Power Tricks contains 8 videos in total, including: New Pasteboard, New Macro, Copy Content\&Link, and more. For more great videos from this uploader, please follow the uploader's account. https://www.bilibili.com/video/av27670825/

3 Cross-App Note-Syncing Plugins

Taking the Obsidian and Flomo plugins as examples, a note card is created simultaneously across two or more apps, each also carrying a globally available context backlink.

【Third-Party MN Plugin】Obsidian-Bridge (Dynamic Markdown Export) — Connecting Two Knowledge Galaxies #Ver.3.0.0 Officially Signed# - Plugin Release Area｜Unrestricted editing and updating of the main post allowed - MarginNote Chinese Community Obsidian BridgeObsidian Bridge plugin builds a bridge from MarginNote to Obsidian. Through it, we can import the writing material and creative inspiration accumulated in MarginNote into Obsidian, using Ma\… https://bbs.marginnote.com.cn/t/topic/21235

【Third-Party MN Plugin】I wrote a flomo plugin—is anyone using flomo? #Ver.0.0.2 Officially Signed# - Plugin Release Area｜Unrestricted editing and updating of the main post allowed - MarginNote Chinese Community The v 0.0.2 release adds the following support: support for switching flomo's position (mainly referencing deepl's code; I'd like to ask how to refresh the position directly—currently it takes effect only after toggling the plugin off and on again). Notes now include a note id, in preparation for opening marginNote. Preview image \… https://bbs.marginnote.com.cn/t/topic/18381

4 Apple Script

Coming Soon

AppleScript automation and JavaScript plugin extensions enhance MN's integration with many professional research tools, enabling uses such as data conversion, advanced export, automatic card-creation rules, and function computation.

The latest Apple Script rules and syntax supported by MarginNote 4 can all be looked up through the dictionary feature of the system's built-in app, "Script Editor."