![]() ![]() Tv3 was a fork of the project to update for python3, but the original tv3 fork recently was deleted from github. ![]() ![]() Until recently I had been using tv3 - a resuscitation of Terminal Velocity - to fill my note taking need. ![]() That being said, it does kind of do a lot at once.Īlso, it does have some hiccups like requiring a restart after changing settings. QOwnNotes is one I came across recently and seems like it would be decent if you were just starting out moving to this note system. NVpy was one of the contenders, and at the time - a few years ago now - it just didn't function well. Sadly many of the alternatives I tried attempt to do extras in an annoying way (forcing. There have been a number of kludgey, mostly GUI alternatives to Notational Velocity. Your file syncing method of choice ( syncthing for me) to have your notes in other places. When you selected a note you started editing it, and if there was no match you started editing a new note.Įverything after that feature set is extras.ĭue to how simple this setup is, it is also trivial to use :w Its simplicity, latter iterated on by nvALT, was a superb.Īt its core you have three parts: A search box, a notes list, and a view of the selected note.īy typing in the search box you limit the listed notes to ones whose title/contents matched. īTW, I use NValt as many others have suggested.Notational Velocity was a great tool I started using back in the days of yore, when I was on iBook running Mac OS X 10.4. Lately I've been trying to add a little organization to some notes with inspiration from this idea of Semantic Notes. Now they are saved (without me thinking about it) and on a number of occasions it has been helpful to have the archive. They'd typically be saved on my desktop for a few days or not saved at all in the case of a quick dump. Pre-NV, these text files were throwaways. Instead of composing longish text in the browser (textarea), I now use NV and don't worry about losing stuff due to browser crashes, etc. The text is there and it is automatically saved. Just open the app and start typing or paste. It's _frictionless_ so, for these files, I don't have to think what to name them or where to save them. Often I need a file to reformat some text or a file to temporarily hold a snippet of text. keeping (almost) everything here means I don't need to load up different apps (a meeting notes app, a wine list app, a snippet app) or think about where to store thingsįor me, it's my text file junk drawer. plain text (not some proprietary locked in format) Then I use the app Notesy on my iPhone which searches just as quickly. I have the app bound to command-shift-tilde so it's always very easy to access. names and phone numbers of my neighbors list of conferences I want to attend this year electricians I've called to get quotes from trip planning (hotel, flight info, museums) So I have life, work, snippets (for code), and a few others.īut I rarely browse, as the search functionality just can't be beat. I use a trick Merlin Mann mentioned in one of his podcasts, where he prefixes each note title with a category. I use it for pretty much everything in life that I want to remember. ![]()
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