How to go back after clicking a link in a PDF
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Follow a link
Click a contents entry, citation, footnote or figure reference. Notesify jumps there and briefly highlights the target.
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Find the Back pill
A “Back to page N” pill appears at the top of the page on desktop, and at the bottom on phones, within thumb reach.
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Go back
Click the pill or press Alt ← to land exactly where you were reading.
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Or stay
Happy where you landed? Close the pill with ×.
Questions
After any internal link, Notesify shows a “Back to page N” pill. Click it, or press Alt ←, to return to where you were reading.
Yes. Press Alt ← (Option ← on a Mac) while the Back pill is showing.
Yes. Every jump is remembered in order, and each Back steps one link further back.
Yes. On small screens the pill sits at the bottom of the page so it's easy to tap.