Excellent productivity app for Mac
Growly Notes is an effective productivity tool for Mac that lets you capture just about anything all in one place. It's a great tool for organizing research projects, trips, to-do lists, or journals. In addition, its equally competent at creating scrapbooks of random images, web links and video clips. If you need a slick productivity app without a big outlay, then Growly Notes is a very good choice.
Cut and save almost anything
The great strength of Growly Notes is that it can contain almost anything, including formatted text, images, movies, audio clips, PDF files, tables, lists, web and file links, and drawings you create in Notes. You can place things anywhere so you don't have to worry about inflexible templates or rigid rules. You can separate ideas and brainstorming sessions into tabs which you can navigate very easily.
It's impressive that Growly Notes offers for free many of the features of a highly polished application like Curio. Growly comes amazingly close to MS OneNote in many aspects with the bonus of a slick OS X interface of course. However, some of the more advanced features of OneNote - such as integration with OneNote web app and syncing with Outlook aren't possible in Growly Notes. However, the developer GrowlyBird plans to release an iPad of Growly Notes late in 2014, which will be able to sync with the Mac version.
A great all-round productivity app
Growly Notes is perfect for mind-mapping, note-taking and brainstorming.
New features include syncing between computers, better text handling, improved audio/video recording, the ability to annotate PDFs, and a completely updated UI. There are also dozens of other new and improved features.
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New features include syncing between computers, better text handling, improved audio/video recording, the ability to annotate PDFs, and a completely updated UI. There are also dozens of other new and improved features.
User reviews about Growly Notes
by Polly O'Keary
I use Growly Notes for my general exams readings. I like for a number of reasons. I like being able to place things exactly where I want on the page. I like the range of colorful options available that makes it easy for visualize my organizational structure. The customer service is outrageously good. I have several times emailed the developer on a Sunday and gotten return emails within an hour, and he has stuck with it until we have trouble shot whatever issue I had. More
by Anonymous
keep in front.
Love it but wish I could keep it up in front somehow. Would like to be able to refer to it while surfing the net. Otherwise all good.
Pros:
easy, simple
Cons:
like to be able to keep it on top to refer to More
by Anonymous
Differences with OneNote?.
Sounds like terrific software and I'm grateful to the developer for continuously improving it. What functionalities from OneNote is Growly Notes missing? More
by Anonymous
Fantastic Program.
I am very glad I found this program. As others have said, a One Note alternative for the mac was very hard to find. I have found it on Growly and I love this program. More
by Anonymous
Better than OneNote!.
It is better than OneNote in functionalityI would recommend to all online college students, I recommended it to my son who is also in college. But online students can benefit from the scratchpad, which makes reading online books and taking notes a breeze. Pros:
I really like the scratchpad, it is a wonderful feature
tabbed subjects and inserts
Cons:
it crashes constantly, once a day
you can not bring up a scratch pad without opening up growly notes.
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by Anonymous
Fantastic App!.
This application has changed my life, literally! I no longer need to be paranoid about forgetting where I put something, I just organize and enter everything into Growly Notes to be accessed with a tap on the icon. Like OneNote, you can label sections and pages within but I find Growly Notes just makes sense better in the way it is set up and the colours used. You can drag and drop practically anything you can think of, from mail, iPhoto, off a web page, a Pages document, etc. Emailing, printing, sharing, tables, custom stationery, templates, audio message, links, view options, many good fonts and colours, format settings. There are way too many great features of Growly Notes to mention here. You'll just have to check it out for yourself. Since using Growly Notes I have stopped my search for a OneNote alternative. OneNote was the only Microsoft program I missed after switching to all Apple apps.
Pros:
Growly Notes is easy to learn and use, personalize, organize, save and share all your work
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