![]() ![]() GoodReader: This iPad/iPhone app allows you to organize and annotate downloads of different file types including PDF, text, Word, Excel, iWork, and PowerPoint, so you can easily take notes as you’re reading. If you have a life changing app story, or just a regular ol’ app suggestion to share, please post it in the comments section! Apps For Academia To help you in the never-ending quest to find the perfect apps, we’ve rounded up a few of our favorites that you can use for your academic and personal life (yes, you should still have a personal life while in law school!). Growly Write is a simple but feature-rich word processor.There is a time and sanity-saving app for just about every activity you can think of, and that’s a beautiful thing for the busy law student! However, the abundance of apps available today can make weeding through options to find the ones that are just right for you pretty time consuming-and in law school time is always of the essence. Perhaps the word processor you've been using has 100 times as many features as you need. Or it won't work the way you want it to - too many views or too few, and nothing makes any sense. Or it looks as if it were designed back when computers displayed text in green letters on a black screen. Growly Write is something else entirely: fresh, capable, and simple. 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. The section on the right of the screen shot above is the format panel. It lets you change the appearance of everything in the document, without ever getting in your way. No obscure commands, complex and ugly modal windows, tiny indecipherable icons, or hunting through menus. If you want to format something, this is the place to go. The tabs at the top let you choose what to modify: text, paragraphs, tables, lists, pictures, what have you. They reconfigure automatically to match whatever you've selected. Within each tab the properties are broken down into small, easy-to-understand groups. If you don't use styles, for example, just close the style group and you'll never have to see it again. But when you do need a certain format, you'll never have to wonder where it is. If you're just typing and you don't want to think about formatting right now, simply close the panel. Sometimes you need to concentrate on making your document look great, but for most documents it's the words that matter most. When you want to focus on the text, use the draft view (vs. 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. 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. Call it the App Awards for best app of the year. Already I see this app is well on its way to being a serious contender. 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. Please.pretty please, could you add footnotes? Yeah, I know I am unusual person in that not everyone does research work like I do, but sometimes I truly wish I could just add some footnotes at the bottom of the page (and/or perhaps at the end of the chapter) and get these footnote numbers to automatically update as I add or remove footnotes just to make my life easier.Ģ. Growly notes copy paste no formatting update# Growly notes copy paste no formatting update#.
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