When you create a new note in NV, by writing a new subject for the note, the application brings you to any prior note on the subject with a type along search process. It is designed with the idea that a note once taken can be expanded on rather than recreated.
It’s an entirely different way to keep notes and manage text not quite wiki, not quite shovebox. So what’ the big deal? People who use NV get kind of religious about the design of the application. Jesse had just modified SimpleText so it could read and write to a list of txt files created or modified by NV. There you can edit them in a cool minimalist web page, and from there they are synced to your iPhone. SimpleText is a sync tool that reads a folder filled with txt files to a cloud server. So I was trying to figure out how and why would SimpeText work with NV, when it dawned on me to actually go look at the NV application again (duhhh) and I found that in the most recent (Sept 09) release, NV now has the option to not only store data as TXT’s or RTF’s it can also access those files from an any folder, all via a preference option.
#Notational velocity mac update#
The update specifically was to integrate the app (which is the sync system for WriteRoom for iPhone, eventually for TaskPaper for iPhone, and in fact any set of txt files you throw at it) with Notational Velocity, an iconoclastic and intriguing open source note taking data base manager that I tried and dumped a year of so ago because it stored all its data in a central database, obviating my architecture of ‘external to any application’ data files.
#Notational velocity mac software#
Jesse Grosjean over at HogBay Software put out an update to his fabulous (and free) application, SimpleText, and the change log caught my eye.
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