Growly Notes 2.0.2
Device: Mac OS
Category: Productivity
Price: $4.99, Version: 2.0.1 -> 2.0.2 (iTunes)
Description:Growly Notes is the most versatile note-taking app available for the Mac. Collect any kind of data—rich text, images, PDFs, movies, audio clips—and arrange it on the page any way you like.
Notebooks are organized into sections containing free-form pages, like a scrapbook. On each page, notes can lie next to each other, or you can layer the notes so they overlap.
SYNC
• Work on multiple Macs, or collaborate on a notebook with friends or colleagues.
• Sync notebooks on demand from any Mac to the master copy on a file server, a shared folder, or the web.
• Two sync styles: replace the old with the new, or merge differences with conflict handling.
TEXT NOTES
• Click anywhere on a page and just start typing.
• Rich text: multiple fonts and all standard text styles.
• Pictures embedded in the text can be scaled.
• Links to websites, files, or places within your notebooks.
• Lists for making outlines or to-do lists. Markers can be numbers, bullets, or a checkbox for ticking off completed tasks.
• Tables organize your data into rows and columns. They can contain any of the elements listed above.
• Take notes in Growly Notes while you're working in another app using floating note windows.
RECORDING
• Record audio and video directly into your notebook.
• Optionally remembers all the text notes created during the recording, and jumps back to them during playback.
• Create a link to any point in the recording or playback so you can jump to it instantly.
• Use your camera to take a snapshot image.
DRAWING & PDFs
• Simple drawing tools for highlighting and annotating.
• Drawings and text can be merged into PDF notes so they stick to the PDF pages.
• Highlight text in PDFs.
• Pull each PDF page out into a separate note, or keep them all together.
SEARCH
• Click on a search result to jump to the note containing the text and highlight all instances.
• Limit the search, or search all open notebooks.
• Tag notes for categorizing or future action. Search for all tagged notes with one mouse click. Create your own tags.
EASY FORMATTING
• The format brush copies text formatting and paints it onto other text.
• Styles for text, paragraphs, lists, and tables apply your favorite formats with a single mouse click.
• The format panel shows all formatting options, from words all the way up to the notebook, grouped into sections to make them easy to understand—or hide them if you never use them.
TEMPLATES
• Five notebook templates and 60 page templates for everything from meeting notes to tranquil musings.
• Create your own templates for layouts you use frequently, and easily share them with other people.
CUSTOMIZABLE
• Navigate with an outline of the notebook, or use colorful tabs.
• Choose from standard section colors in five color schemes, or pick your own colors.
• Keep all notebooks in one window for efficiency, or put each in its own window.
• Set defaults for new pages, including the template, zoom, and background color.
OTHER GREAT FEATURES
• Password-protect sensitive sections.
• Lock pages and notes to prevent accidental changes.
• Export to many other formats, including RTF and HTML, for archival, sharing, or final edits in another app.
• High-quality printing.
• Spell checking.
• Sorting.
• Note borders.
• Background images or colors on pages.
• Align text with page rule lines.
• Menu bar widget for common tasks.
• Perform calculations right in your notebook.
• Automatic backups for extra security.
• Print directly to Growly Notes from any app with a free tool downloaded from our website.
COMPATIBILITY
• 10.7.3 and later.
• Text in most languages, but not right-to-left or vertical scripts.
• Does not support iCloud at this time.
• iPad version coming in 2014.
What's New
ENHANCEMENTS
• Audio and video notes can be stored outside the notebook, keeping the notebook files smaller and Notes more responsive.
• PDF notes can be opened with your default reader using the Open File command on the note’s context menu.
• Automatic table of contents created from bookmarks in a text note.
• Other minor improvements. See the What's New help topic.
MAJOR FIXES
• When certain types of complex text (usually from the web) were pasted or opened from version 1 notebooks, Notes could hang.
• Certain pages, in unpredictable circumstances, could crash Notes when you selected them.
• Undoing a page or section rename would crash.
• In rare circumstances, Notes could claim that a notebook could not be saved, and fail attempting to recover it, when in fact there was nothing wrong.
• All the pages could be dragged out of a section, which was lethal.
MINOR FIXES
• In version 1 documents with password protected sections, the page names in the protected sections could be replaced with the string “”.
• Password protected sections that had not been unlocked still allowed certain operations that could reveal the pages’ contents.
• The oldest backup could not be deleted in the File→Open Backup dialog.
• When pasting text with many links, only some of them were converted to active links.
• Sorting a table would delete rows in which the sort column was blank.
• When exporting a page (that contained a tall PDF note) to a PDF file, the pages of the PDF note would drift so that they no longer lined up with other notes.
• File icons were fuzzy on Retina displays or at large sizes.
• In notes that spanned page breaks, lines of text could be chopped off or incorrectly positioned.
• Some text files were incorrectly interpreted, so that Roman characters would be read as Asian characters.
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