Growly Notes App Reviews

Growly Notes is like a virtual notebook where I capture and collect information I need to run my life. For my personal life this is where I journal, set goals, store vision boards and more. Each morning I pop open my virtual notebook and reveiw my itnentions for the day complete with picutres, videos, text of my choice. As the director/NP of a Medical Practice, I use a seperate notebook to organize my team meeting notes, action plans, upcoming events, etc. What I love is when I am in email or the web and come across a topic i want to discuss at our weekly team meeting I just click on “Team meeting” tab in my Growly business notebook and jot it down or cut and paste from email/web. I keep a running list of the topics discussed at each meeting for future reference, it’s so handy! Again, I can add pics/videos/text whatever I want to these notes….there is really no limit. I also use Growly notes for the book I am writing. I have tabs for each chapter, intro, prologue, etc. I am able to shut everything else down on my screeen and concentrate on writing. Growly notes lives on my dock right next to my email and calendar b/c it is that useful. Really could not run my life without it! Just need to access my notes from my iPad, can’t wait for that upgrade.

Overall I really like Growly Notes so thanks! But I found an annoying bug that I hope you can address.. It seems that when you cut and paste between other apps after a few pastes it’ll stop pasting in your new cuts, it’ll keep pasting the same info you pasted before over and over again, it’ll never pickup the new data untill you restart.. This obviously isn’t a show stopper, just kind of of annoying.. Hopefully you can squash it soon enough, nothing is perfect! Thanks!

I have been using this app for grad school and it makes note taking during lectures great. The only complaint I have is that the audio recording is not the best. I have been pairing this app with the AudioNote app to record lectures. I end up bouncing between the two apps. I love the way I can drag and drop powerpoints over to pages on the app and then record on AudioNote to line up the recording with my notebook pages. The only thing that would make this app 5 stars is if the audio recorder was better to record lectures and I could stop using the other app. Overall great product that works almost like a real notebook, but better.

This app has the flexibility and simplicity to get work done. Looking professional yet not having to read manuals or take an online course to run it.

If you need to make a lot of lists about a wide variety of things, this is the ultimate organizer! it is an intuitive, easy-to-use application which makes it easy to keep many to-do lists for a complicated job or life. I create tabs for all the various projects, and within these tabs I can easily organize my constantly changing tasks and ideas. This is one of the simpler capabilities of this powerful software, but it sure does help me to stay organized and less stressed!

Ideal for juggling a dissertation, grant applications, postdoc projects, and more! The embedded PDF capability is fantastic. If only I’d found this sooner...

I needed an app that helped me keep everything organized and THIS IS IT! Before finding this app, I tried out several others and being a Mac user, there just wasn’t anything that really gave me what I needed. Mostly it’s just list apps and what I wanted was something as clean and smooth as Growly. It is just GREAT. I finally consolidated all my recipes from tons and tons of files into ONE place! PLUS, I had a TON of files on a variety of health things that I needed to consolidate and it is DONE. Dozens of files, consolidated. WOOHOO! Thank you, THANK YOU. FIVE STARS!

When your professors are giving you 75+ slide power points, 2-3 times a week and you want to be able to search through them fast and take notes, etc. Growly Notes is the way to go. I was very happy with V1, so I was more than happy to pay for V2. $5 is a steal too. I had a few issues when converting V1 notebooks since they were so large (4-6 GBs large), but having automataic backups (the program can backup all your notebooks for you if you set it up, do this!) saved my life on more than one occassion when switching from V1 to V2. Chris is very good about emailing you back quick when you’ve got a question, so support is quick for the most part. I recommend it to all my classmates and all the classes under me.

I use Growly Notes every day at work for keeping meeting notes and organizing information about projects I am working on. I have a section for meeting notes with a page for each meeting and I have sections for each project I am working on with pages under each section for major categories related to that project. Many little bits of information relevant to my work come my way through emails, informal conversations, meetings, web searches, and documents that I read. Growly Notes is the tool I use to capture and organize all of these little bits of information. It would be nice to have a way to automatically send highlighted text, images, hyperlinks, etc. to Growly Notes.

So I never really used OneNote too much when I used a PC, mainly because I discovered it really late. But once I did discover it’s usefulness, I quickly began using it for all of my college notes. Then I switched to Mac… I used Parallels at first so that I could continue using OneNote on Windows, but it just drained too much of my battery to make it practical. So I began searching for Mac alternatives to OneNote. I tried several programs but could honestly not find anything that was comparable. Then they realeased OneNote for Mac and I was ecstatic! Until I used it for a few weeks and found that I can’t draw, cant edit PDFs, am forced to save my notebooks on OneDrive and can not save them on my hard drive, and that it was overall less fluid than the Windows version. So after some more searching, I found this program. It solved EVERY issue that I had with OneNote for Mac. It’s VERY fluid, allows customization of the appearance of the program, has a very solid drawing tool, allows the editing of PDFs, and allows me to save my notebooks on my Hard Drive. So far no complaints. I can’t believe this isn’t one of the top rated note-taking apps in the app store. COMPLETELY worth the $5

I decided to upgrade Growly Notes to the new (paid) version, since I had used it for several semesters for free and had found it very useful. However, now I wish I hadn’t - there doesn’t seem to be any way to change the way bulleted lists are indented via the ruler tool in the new version, which is extremely frustrating to me. I realize this may not be a huge issue to most people, but I really liked having that level of control. I also frequently would change the bullets themselves to different bullets in previous versions of Growly Notes, and I don’t seem to be able to do that in the new, paid version either. I certainly don’t mind paying $5 for a tool I’ve used frequently and enjoyed, but I *do* mind when you take away important features with the paid version. (Note: Another feature I would really like is that when I have my window resized so that it is smaller than the total area of a text box, and I type out of the visible part of the window, I would really like if the window would automatically scroll over so that I can see what I’m typing. This feature occurs in Microsoft Word, Evernote, and most website in Google Chrome, and it would be great if it were added to Growly Notes as well.)

I have recently converted to taking notes on my computer for school since most of my professors do not post their notes until right before class. I must say, I have been very happy with Growly Notes. It is pretty simple to use and it is great! There is a couple of frustrating things that have happened (like notes randomly resizing in the middle of class), but I am pretty sure this is user error. It was well worth the $5 I spent on this program. I really would like for them to have an iPad app that I can sync my notes to when I am on the go and cannot take my computer with me!

I’ve been using Growly Notes for a few years to make to-do lists, random notes, and business lists. Access to the sidebar to move between different notes is nice, and the automatic saving process is straightforward. I only use a small fraction of the functions available, and they work well. There are a few things that don’t work very smoothly. Sometimes the app will refuse to HIDE. Keyboard shortcuts for text-selection work in a weird way— if you switch to whole-word selection, you can’t switch back to single space selection. I prefer using my keyboard for selection in most cases, so this forces me to use the mouse. A relatively minor annoyance. Growly Notes is feature packed and is a unique and useful app. The workflow issues I mentioned are minor, relative to a very clever and well-designed app.

Like many others have said, I was looking for the ultimate note-taking program when I stumbled across Growly Notes. I perform reviews of other’s work. While each review has the same general format, each review is different in detail. I’ve tried Notebook, VoodoPad and Note One among others and had settled on Evernote. While it is a very good program, providing a great number of options, for my purposes it is very structured. What I needed was a program able to deal with a number of alternative media formats while preserving maximum flexibility in using the data and that is exactly what Growly Notes provides. A typical investigayion/review may include gathering Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, tons of PDFs, images and recordings. Growly handles them all while allowing me TOTAL flexibility how I tie it all together. For example, I may be reviewing a report and find inconsistencies between different sections of that report. Using Snagit I can cut the relevant portion out of the report, place it on a Growly Note page and then repeat the process with the contradictiory information. Now I have the issue before me, side-by-side. Then I can highlight areas, draw connecting lines and annotate with notes/diagrams to my heart’s content. When I revisit this item later I can rearrange every thing as necessary by simply click and drag commands. When I make my presentation of my results to my attorneys in a visual format, the side-by-side (or in some cases side-by-side-by-side) arrangement makes understanding the issue so transparent and easy even an attorney can do it. Too many other features to list here. If you need a program for gathering and processing information in all types of media with almost unlimited flexibility, this is the program for you. This program is not a bargain; at $5.00 it is a steal. The developer has been very responsive to solving problems I have encountered (caused for the most part by my ignorance and lack of attention to the manual). The only thing I seem unable to convence him of is that he is not charging enough.

Growly Notes is the best note taking app by far, especially if you use a lot of PDFs and need to take notes for them. This app will do everything you need it too; I’m in Dental School so I get PDF lecture files with hundreds of pages in each and I drop them into Growly notes and take notes right next to it as the lecture progresses. Amazing app! If you need a simple and great note taker, this is it hands down! But… I can’t give this app 5 stars because it’s one downfall is organization; I simply can’t keep all my files nicely organized and together. The developers really need to implement a generic folder based system, it doesn’t need to be fancy, but it needs to allow grouping of subjects. Currently you can make a “notebook” with pages in a section, but there is no way to make any more “depth”. This forces me to only use Growly Notes for lecture notes (which, as I stated, it excels at), but if I try to add in notes for lab/clinic courses, personal notes, business notes the app quickly gets disorganized and just a headache to navigate. Please developers, fix this! Check out the app “Outline” they do this task beautifully; although they don’t quite compare as far as actually taking notes goes, I am seriously considering switching to their app simply because they handle organization so much better.

This is a feature-rich program and there are a lot of choices for look, search, export, etc. I recommend you do three things up front: Choose some “preferences” in the Growly Notes menu, 2) create a Growly Notes folder on your desktop or finder to send your GN documents to, and 3) control right-clic on the toolbar and put the stuff up there you will use and take stuff away that you don’t care about. Now a simple Command N will get you a new page, just the way you like it. You can change things later if you want, but this kept me from getting overwhelmed with all the choices in spite of the excellent help document. The price is right and the developer is on top of things. I highly recommend it.

I started with the free version and then bought the app when I got a new computer. I really love this program. I don’t take advantage of many of the features but the organizational system(pages and sections) is great for me. I use it as my digital lab notebook. It is working out really well for me on that front so far. Looking forward to the iPad app!

Growley Notes works perfect for me. When putting together information on a particular topic, I can put pretty much any kind of information or media on a single page - text, graphics, files, audio, video, links, etc. and arrange and format it as I see fit. The pages can be nested under sub-topics and separate notebooks can be created. Its the perfect modern incarnation of a stack of physical notebooks - but notebooks that include digital media, search, autosave and backup! Awesome!

I got this because I was tired of using OneNote for Mac and wanted something that I could draw in (the promised iPad app was a big selling point). I’ve had nothing but issues with it. If you have any sort of hefty noteload (med school) you’ll have to create a different notebook for each week (sometimes even day) to prevent the app from lagging while you are typing notes in lecture. This means it will take a lot of extra loading time to switch between weeks and notebooks. Don’t bother trying to fit anatomy pics and notes in one notebook either. The app is supposed to save/backup on its own but it doesn’t. I’ve lost a few pages here and there, and a few classmates have complained that it doesn’t save what they typed in lecture all the time but I just kind of took that with the good. However, today I lost a week’s worth of notes because it apparently isn’t autosaving regularly. The only solution support offers is that you should have the most current version (I do/did). All in all, I like that you can use arrows and drawing tool but it’s brought me to tears (real, frustrated, tears) more than once which makes the app not worth $5.

This is a wonderful app for collecting information and then organizing the collected information by making extended notes. One of the neat features is the popup editing window. You can have a note popup in a small window next to the note you are writing…easy way to recall the points you want to make without laborious switching windows. You can “clip” pdf documents to your notes by just printing the note to Growly Notes. I am an experienced user of Notability and NoteSuite but find GBNotes superior because you have mulitple windows of notes open at the same time (among other benefits). Software has worked flawlessly and has responded to a heavy workout….Notes and putting my organized writing into GBWrite…. A real bargain at $4.99……I am looking forward to the IOS version.