Notational Velocity for Mac2.0 β5

Be careful : I synchronized my notes with simpleton and it works great, but it just deleted all my tags ; there was a warning about this on GitHub (https://github.com/scrod/nv/wiki/FAQ%3A-Synchronization) Same problem with NvAlt.

nvALT, which is a fork of NV is probably more up to date and has some extra cool features.

Great app, but development seems to have stopped. You may be better off looking at a fork.

I often have ideas when I'm not supposed to: when I'm writing an email, using skype or working on my website... the idea pops up in my head and I have to write it down quickly, before I forget it. And guess what? NO application allowed me to do that fast enough. Whatever I was using, I had to launch it or click on its icon somewhere. Then wait 2 seconds for it to open, then jot down my idea and save it. Then I could go back to whatever I was doing before. Until now, I was using Dovonthink's drawer... Mouse driven. And slow. In other words, a pain in the ass... Then I discovered Notational Velocity. When it"s launched (in a fraction of a second), just write your idea, then close it. Created a trigger hot key (with keyboard maestro) to launch it wherever I am on my Mac. When I want to note something, all the process takes less that 4 seconds. I take notes all the time, now. A brilliant app.

Love it!! Great feature set!!! Fast and easy to use.

Brilliant application!!! I love the fact that it works only with plain text, keeps it lightweight with unlimited number of notes, articles...etc...etc. and the fact that all words are magically linked - fantastic! Thank you!

I love NV. Have been using it for more than a year now, and it has become my go-to place to write everything down. Quick notes, important financial info, whatever. I also love the fact that the notes database is encrypted. My only wish is that I could find an iOS app that will sync with NV in some way *other* than via the cloud. All the solutions I've found sync via Dropbox, Simplenote, or Evernote. But since I have some very private information in my NV notes, I don't want to have them sitting unencrypted on some third-party server. What I'm looking for is an app that syncs with NV locally (via iTunes, Bonjour, or LAN WiFi). Any suggestions???

It just occurred to me to check for an update. Guess it's been a while since I last did that. Just to prove how great this app is, I've been using the 2003 version 1.1.1 for all these years, flawlessly. Glad to see NV is alive and well. I'll get the iPhone app next.

Great app. Love it !

This is simply the finest note-pad available for Mac. Just brilliant.

Aarrrggghhh!! I have a mixed feeling with this upgrade. On one hand, I love that it adds vi style navigation with control key. I have setup my capslock to control so it's really easy to navigate in NV now (rather than use cmd+h/j/k/l). On the other hand I now can't use some of the emacs keybinding (which supported system wide in Mac OS). One of the most important and sorely missed is control+k to delete to the end of line. I've used NV to manage my to do list, and usually just put the cursor at the beginning of the line and delete/kill it. Overall though, great work by developer. And NV is still the best notetaking app out there.

I *need* tags, please?! Can I haz?

Light, fast, clever, simple, useful…

I really liked the concise layout of Memoblock - but it takes a long time to boot, and its promising sync capabilities are useless for an iPod Touch. It's no longer usable. In comparison, Notational Velocity has enviable velocity, and its vertical orientation cuts down on on-screen real estate. But I was floored by its seamless import of PDFs. Presently, I use two types of notepad applications: textual (Notational Velocity), and graphic (Notebook, VooDooPad), and both types are essential.

The built-in updater currently doesn't work. Keeps giving "update is improperly signed" error. Looks like it has to be downloaded manually this time.

I love the Horizontal layout view! Also, love the way it does tags and searches for them and text. And Bookmarks, too. Very handy app in many ways! drking

This is so cool! =D

The Very Best of the Best!

I just want to say thanks for keeping PPC Tiger support in this new release. I use NV at home on an old G4 Tower and have an iMac running Leopard at work, syncing data via DropBox, and this works flawlessly for me. I really like the new horizontal window view--it makes this much more useable for me. Now, is there anyway to officially incorporate Markdown or MultiMarkdown and a preview pane, as some Steven Franks did in his fork?

An essential application for every mac, since many many years. Gets even 'more perfect' with the recent updates. Use it in junction with a Simplenote account, the Simplenote app on the iPhone and ResophNotes on Windows.

A code fork called "Notational Velocity Alt": http://brettterpstra.com/code/notational-velocity-alt/

Thanks for the effort - love this app

Out of all the note-taking applications that are available for OS X & the iPhone, I have to say that this one has come the nearest to meeting my fast-paced environment. All-in-all, this is a very lightweight and functional little app that does all it was meant to do: take notes... But there are a few things that should emphasized about this particular application. If you are ever in a hurry and you're reading an email, you'll sometimes realize that you missed something of great importance or you skimmed through a section that contained the point of the monstrosity that is a weekly report... It's always nice to be able to extract little tidbits for later use, and that's where this app conquers all others in functionality. Needless to say, the iPhone synchronization makes this app killer for on-the-go extractions from the computer for later use, or vice-versa. This is not a to-do app, but it can serve the purpose quite nicely, as long as you don't plan a project within it. (That's not the function of this application, nor was it intended so.) For notes, it's far superior to any "premium" or "full-featured" application due to it's condensed size and huge functionality within the field of "note-taking", but it may not fit everyone's needs. Since it's free, why not give it a try? If you don't like it, toss it. It's that simple! A+ for the functionality and lightweight environment! This is perfect for the fast-paced lifestyle such as mine!

Most useful and simple, but it would be still better to have an option to show rulers or at least make lists.

This is a MUST HAVE application! I use it for any kind of notes I have to type in quickly. And I have the notes stored in a folder that gets synced via dropbox.com So no more .txt files on the desktop, no more lost notes because of computer crashes etc. They are always instantly saved and backed up. and now I use the SimpleNote integration to be able to access all notes via Web and via iPhone. I finally cancelled my expensive Evernote subscription for this lovely app in conjunction with SimpleNote. Try it - it´s great!

This is a really wonderful application. I have come to loathe Stickies. NV imported the StickiesDatabase (in ~/Library/) in a flash and perfectly. Goodbye, Stickies! My only suggestion would be to be able to use color for text. It may be possible, but I can't see how to do it...

BEWARE. Beta 3 is buggy, it will copy a changed note over and over again. I love this product - but stay at Beta 2 for now!

Marvelous I love it! I am proud of such a great development! I too needed a replacement for Stickies because its spelling check was not saved (still after 2 years of sending bug reports), the view cluttered and collapsed Stickies had too small title font. I had used myNotes before, but that took far too long to load up. This app has the biggest advantage in stability and safety of the notes as you can select the storage and export format of Plaintext/RTF/HTML. The unbelievably handy global shortcut setting makes it as indispensable as the chat-client Adium for the Apple Macintosh. The quick notes entry needs some getting used to, but is a neat feature. For people who need to store large amounts of text and are rather fond of sideway views, just use the bookmarks window (which operates notes on shortcuts as well!!!). I just love the new icon. Contra: - scrollbar position is not saved - bookmarks panel open state not saved Feature Request (optional): - FTP upload - side windows to view multiple important entries

This is great for taking notes, it's quick and easy. I hope the developer adds the option to run it in the apple menu bar, this would be awesome as I can then take notes as and when without having to open the application every time.

This is a really cool app that will definitely appeal to some people. I'm using it to replace a bunch of stickies that used to clutter my desktop. Maybe I'm missing something but I keep wishing there was an OS X 'clear' cross at the right hand side of the search/title text entry box. Is there a quick way to return to the whole list? At the moment I have to select the text in the box and press delete which seems a bit clumsy. Thanks though, I still like it a lot.

Great to see an update. Excellent, welcome back!

Welcome back! What a pleasant surprise to see this has been updated. Well done.

Please… Universal Binary. Please.

Notational Velocity ----Used every day --I love this free note pad. Text notes only. As reviewed --"Interface so simple you could cry." Two pane plus dual entry line for 1) it's great 'auto-complete' Search/Find and 2) creating new Title line for new note. Heart of this big and simple note keeper is the dual Compose/Search/Find. Search really can be outstanding --Comm-G will hop down thru all string occurrences --on all notes . My Not Vel has 600 notes. Everything retained and found as fast as I can type each letter key. Import will open text and RTF files. Comm-E exports a text file with our Open/Save nav dialog. Operates with brilliant vi/Unix key commands. All Word Services enabled --including the pearCalc launch, Insert, and Mail/Send Selection. Has own Services selections --search describe with selection and make new note with selection. Here is an example of Simple being incredibly adequate. :) Of the 46 note pads I demo--Reviewed --I list Notational Velocity as having one of the 20 Outstanding Search/Find features. DataBase location ---/Users/billwest/Library/Preferences/NotationalDatabase.blor Unreadable so not a simple text edit back up copy. The Notational Velocity app opens with dbl-click on this note database file. Not built with organizing notes and folders --no independent files on our HD --everything depends on it's Search/Find --and it is very good. With my 600 very large and very short notes --the Search/Find has got to be instant fast and good. myNotes and Notational Velocity are the only two note pads that appear on our nav dialog menu Open With. Every hard drive plain text or rtf file can be Opened With Notational Velocity. So Notational Velocity also serves very well as a regular text editor. OSX Menubar --and Help --filled with Mac and Unix enabled key commands.

This is a wonderful little program, one that I've been looking for for a long time. Just didn't know how to describe it until I discovered Notational Velocity. It's quick, simple, instant and works like I think. It's become my all purpose database for information, ideas, references, notes on where I filed articles about this or that topic. All I have to do it seems is type the first word or thought that comes to mind and Notational Velocity takes me where I want to go. A great program at an unbelievable price.

Best note app for the mac, been using it forever.

Great program. I love it. I reccommend it.

First things first: WOW! Thank you!!! Second thought: Would it be possible to hide it from the application list (-)? Cheers! George

Nifty little snippet keeper! I still prefer Alepin for organizing long-term text snippets, but NV is great for coding and quick stuff.

Pretty neat and seems to work well. It doesn't do a lot but what it does, it does well. You can't ask much more than that. I would like to see it implemented as a service so it could integrate with other apps on an ad hoc basis. Very usable as it stands, though.

briliant. After pfaffing around with the like of stickbrain and stickies, an little app that does everything you need an no more. Particularly like the fact that search and desc. are same entry.

Very nice indeed! I've been using it for about a week saving Perl & MySQL code snippets. Great application/utility.

You really should try this! Simple, intuitive, and getting better with age. The concept is great. Start typing a note's description. If it exists, the search engine will find it. If it doesn't exist, keep typing. Create the note you had in mind, and the next time you look for it you'll find it. Brilliant! And every note is automatically saved AND encrypted, so all you do is type. Couldn't be easier. Plus, it's free, rock-stable and uses a miniscule amount of system resources.

Don't let the poor name & logo trick you - this is a very slim and efficient way to store and retrieve notes. Fast, free, easy & stable!

Am I the first to discover this thing? It's great! It's free! What are you waiting for? I have always liked the old Jot-a-Lot Classic software, and am thrilled to have found this to replace it with. While NV doesn't offer multiple note collections or styles (yet), it does what the name advertises extremely well.