![]() There are only three things I could only wish for in this app (and then I will be dancing in the streets with joy)::ġ. Already I see this app is well on its way to being a serious contender. Call it the App Awards for best app of the year. NOTE: I wonder whether there should be a competition to see who can make the most compact file size app with the most "useful" features possible. the page view shown above).Ī most promising Word processing app I have seen so far and with the potential to do away with Microsoft Word and even the plethora of open source Word processing stuff such as OpenOffice, LibreOffice and other variants, and at a very concise size that I like to see. When you want to focus on the text, use the draft view (vs. Sometimes you need to concentrate on making your document look great, but for most documents it's the words that matter most. If you're just typing and you don't want to think about formatting right now, simply close the panel. But when you do need a certain format, you'll never have to wonder where it is. If you don't use styles, for example, just close the style group and you'll never have to see it again. Within each tab the properties are broken down into small, easy-to-understand groups. They reconfigure automatically to match whatever you've selected. The tabs at the top let you choose what to modify: text, paragraphs, tables, lists, pictures, what have you. If you want to format something, this is the place to go. ![]() No obscure commands, complex and ugly modal windows, tiny indecipherable icons, or hunting through menus. It lets you change the appearance of everything in the document, without ever getting in your way. The section on the right of the screen shot above is the format panel. The range of documents you can create in Write is staggering: multiple columns, chapters with different layouts, pictures that flow with the text or pictures that text wraps around, drop caps, tables, lists, links within a document or to web pages, borders simple and complex, and a complete toolkit of text formats. Growly Write is something else entirely: fresh, capable, and simple. Or it looks as if it were designed back when computers displayed text in green letters on a black screen. Or it won't work the way you want it to - too many views or too few, and nothing makes any sense. Perhaps the word processor you've been using has 100 times as many features as you need. Otherwise it should be safe.Growly Write is a simple but feature-rich word processor. If putting notes over PDFs is something you do a lot, I suggest waiting for the next update to Notes before you switch to Mavericks. But it may be a while, at least a month, before it's ready. I'm working on an update that will contain a fix for this issue (among many other things). There is no workaround: you have to slide the PDF out of the way to see the other notes. So if you put text notes or drawings on top of PDFs, once you upgrade to 10.9 they will display beneath the PDF instead of on top of it. Apple changed the way that PDFs are displayed in 10.9: they float on top of everything else in the window. There is one big issue with Mavericks and Growly Notes, however. Almost every person who's ever contacted me about issues like this finds their notes again by eitherĢ) Looking in the Notebooks folder inside their Documents folder, which is where the notebooks are stored. The preferences file is where Notes remembers which notebooks were open. No one has ever been able to explain why this happens. What does seem to happen a lot when people upgrade their operating systems is that the preferences file gets changed or lost during the upgrade. There is no known issue with people losing data with Mavericks. We are are happy to answer questions from users just choose "Contact GrowlyBird" from the Help menu in Notes.
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