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The ability to add all sorts of files, links, images and more into your notes turns Growly Notes into so much more than just a note-taking app, elevating it to a great organisational tool. With Growly Notes, it is easy to create any kind of template or notebook to serve pretty much any purpose, and there’s no end to how the powerful little app can be used. If you’re a freelance writer, it’s a great way to keep track of your articles, with a section for each newspaper or site you write for. If you’re working on a novel, it can serve as a great way to keep your ideas and thoughts in the planning stage organised. Growly Notes is basically whatever you make of it.
Growly Notes’ comes with a few standard templates for notebooks. The first, the Clients Template, allows you to create a notebook to keep track of your current and potential clients, regardless of what your business may be.
The Moving Checklist, gives you a great place to start when it comes to keeping track of all the various items you have to remember when you’re moving out of your home, and moving into a new place.
The Student template gives students a great way of keeping track of their assignments, to-do list, schedule, classes, projects and after-school activities.
The Task List template gives you an alternative way to keep track of your To-Do list.
To create a new notebook, go toFile > New Notebookand you can then choose to create a blank document, or use one of Growly’s ready-made templates.
To add new sections or pages, simply right-click the menu on the left-hand side and selectNew SectionorNew Page.
When creating new sections, they are automatically colour coded for you, but if you want to change the colour, simply right click the section title, go toSection Colourand select a new colour.
Growly Notes is superior to other note-taking apps because of the extent of the media that you can insert into your notes, going way beyond just being a text editor. With Growly Notes you can add images, PDF files and even movie or audio files directly into your note.
You can also use the app to draw basic shapes, lines, and with variety available, Growly Notes becomes an ideal app for creating flow charts from scratch.
Inserted audio and video files can be played directly within Growly. Not only can you insert media files from your computer, you can also record new audio and video files, using your webcam, directly within the app.
Lastly, you can insert direct links to files on your hard drive.
If you’re not a fan of the default tabbed and colourful appearance of Growly Notes, go intoPreferences > Appearance, and changeWindow LayoutfromFuntoSerious.
The Serious layout is much easier on the eyes, and seems to suit the Mac appearance better.
If we had just one wish as far as Growly Notes is concerned, it would be to give users a place to share their templates, much like Microsoft does with all of its software.
If you’re looking for a free web-based alternative to OneNote, be sure to check out some of thesuggestions listed here.
Have you tried Growly Notes? What do you think of it? What creative uses for Growly Notes have you come up with? Let us know in the comments.
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Nancy Messieh
Nancy lives in Cairo, works at a publishing house, is half poet, half geek, and suffers from a heavy dose of techno-joy.I decided to test out a note-taking software called Growly Notes. I came across the program online while searching for a free note-taking software for macs, and Growly Notes appeared to have gotten reasonable reviews and so I figured why not give it a shot?
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The first thing I noticed when I opened the program was how easy it was to get started. There was an extensive help menu, here, with lots of different subsections on how to use Growly Notes. However, I decided to completely skip over these and see how I could do trying to figure it out on my own. As I discovered fairly quickly, the organization of the notes is very simple. You can make multiple projects up in this top menu, and quickly switch between them just by clicking here. The next level down of organization are these tabs along the side. Unfortunately, there are only two levels along the side, which I found to be quite frustrating when I was trying to organize my notes, because I couldn’t decide how to organize everything with only these two sections. Not a huge problem, but enough to cause me a little strife.
Now for the actual note taking. Basically all they start you with is a title and a blank page. It’s super easy to insert a note, all you have to do is click anywhere and you can start typing. I like this system, but the only reason I have to complain is that it makes it a little hard to organize neatly, because your notes are all in different places instead of being neatly line by line; You might like this depending on what type of note-taker you are. One feature I really like is this link insert feature, or “alt L” for a shortcut. This is really nice because you can copy a url and it will act as a hyperlink and take you right to the page, which I really liked for writing down my sources. One thing that I wasn’t so satisfied with: At one point I wanted to create a chart, which you can do up here, but the options are very limited and I found it extremely difficult to work with, so I eventually just gave up.
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Overall, I would say I recommend trying Growly Notes. It’s not for everyone, but it definitely has some good features as well as a few things that could be improved. It’s totally free, which makes it even more appealing, and I say why not go for it? I might use it again in the future, depending on the type of projects I will be doing, so spend a couple minutes trying it out for yourself. If you don’t like it, no harm done, and if you’re confused you can always look to the manual. I hope this was helpful for you, and hope you can find the right software for you.
