![]() ![]() All the open notebooks are shown in one window, for easy navigation and quick jumps. Notebooks are organized into sections (the larger tabs on the left in the image above), each of which contains as many pages as you like. Put two snippets of text right next to each other. There are no rules for where things have to go: put an image beside text, or under it. Pages can contain almost anything: formatted text, images, movies, audio clips, PDF files, tables, lists, web and file links, and drawings you create in Notes. A list of models is available to enhance your pages and search tools help you find them. In addition, its equally competent at creating scrapbooks of random images, web links and video clips. It's a great tool for organizing research projects, trips, to-do lists, or journals. Notes lets you search all open notebooks for any text, and shows you the results in context. In each note, you can write text wherever you want and customize, import images, highlight elements, create frames and geometric figures, etc. Growly Notes is an effective productivity tool for Mac that lets you capture just about anything all in one place. Different notes are organized in a tree structure and can be tagged with keywords to find them faster. There are some things you should know before you upgrade to version 4. Growly Notes facilitates note taking and organization. With Growly Notes version 4 we’re returning to our original model of all free software with donations accepted. Minor maintenance release, with only a few trivial new features, but some worthwhile bug fixes.You really don’t have to pay for very much at all if you don’t want to. All the apps that come free with the MacBook are also pretty awesome - I hadn’t realised you get such a plethora of useful utilities, such as Notes, TextEdit, Grab and so on, not to mention the increasingly powerful iWork trio (the online versions of which have just been updated yet again now much better than Google docs IMHO). I haven’t got round to downloading/comparing Outline yet (one of my favourite iPad apps), but probably will once my CRIMPing frenzy really takes hold. Then of course there’s Microsoft OneNote. Others worth mentioning are Metanota Pro (rather elegant minimal version of Ulysses, I suppose you could call it), and Day One (I use this journal software on iPad, but the Mac version is very nice indeed, especially the little reminder feature, which positively encourages you to diarise your life!). Notebooks on Mac is actually rather better than it is on PC (faster, for one thing), and Tree is as good as I hoped it would be. Other goodies I’m trying are Ulysses III (nice, very nice, although lack of table support is a little disappointing) and Scrivener, which is positively awesome (not to say overwhelming) on Mac. Growly Notes Growly Notes for Mac By GrowlyBird Software 4. NoteSuite also has a rather nice little widget-thingy that sits in the Mac menu bar and allows you to make quick notes, todos etc., but Growly Notes has a better search function.īest of all, the very nice and responsive developer says he’s working away on the iPad version, which is very good news. I still have to test that out with foreign-language PDFs, mind you. Although it’s Mac only, it gives OneNote a run for its money - in particular, by offering a very nice ‘Print to Growly Notes’ feature that embeds PDFs in the actual page and then indexes them so the full-text search function can find them. The new version is astonishingly cool and quick, with a great search function. NoteSuite is rather elegant on the Mac, but my unexpected favourite du jour is the amazingly modestly priced Growly Notes, which has been completely rewritten since it was being given away a few years ago. Some of them will have to wait, because they’re rather expensive (I’m looking at you, OmniOutliner), but others have already been subjected to a bit of serious tyre-bashing. , I’ve been trying out all kinds of interesting note managers. ![]() Well, now my lovely MacBook Air has arrived >and therefore the end of my interest for this app. Unfortunately, for me anyway, it’s MAS only and therefore the end of my interest for this app. If Growly Bird comes out with the iPad version mentioned in the App Store release notes, Growly Notes might be a contender in the catch-all notebook category. $4.99 (U.S.) isn’t a bad price for a moderately feature-rich notebook app that has hints of Circus Ponies, Curio, and OneNote. It’s the most flexible note-taking app available. Your notebook files are kept where you want them, not hidden away in the cloud. Pages can contain almost any content you can create. Notebooks are organized into sections and pages. You can put notes anywhere, resize them at will, and layer them. Growly Notes (for Mac) recently released version 2 on the App Store. If you’ve used Microsoft OneNote for Windows, Growly Notes will feel familiar, but it was designed from scratch for the Mac. ![]()
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