The app has gained markdown support (which it didn’t when we originally published this post) with support for markdown syntax highlighting, plus support for markdown actions including checkboxes and links. Furthermore you can’t insert images or tag/group your notes.
There is no fancy text formatting options and no choice of colour scheme not even a solarized option). This is a no-frills app with no cloud sync layer, though some will consider this a selling point Notes are saved automatically as you type. This opens a help sheet that explains how the simple UI works. If the keyboard-centric nature ever gets confusing you press the ? key (with the search box in focus). You add, edit, and search notes entirely from the keyboard, using alt, esc and enter to navigate the UI.
If you’re inclined to record and store information in plain text, you have to check out nvALT.Įditor’s note: nvALT’s developer, Brett Terpstra, is an occasional freelance contributor to Macworld.“Search, create, edit and delete notes all without the mouse,” the project website reads and, to zero surprise, I find that’s exactly what it does. But it is entirely unique in the way it helps you organize and manage your notes. As I say, it can’t do everything that text editors like BBEdit or even TextEdit can.
#Notational velocity app review mac#
If you edit text on a Mac and iOS devices and want a simple system for managing large numbers of notes, nvALT provides it. NvALT is up to version 2.2 recent additions include the option to auto-pair brackets and quotes (type a quotation mark, and the app will automatically insert a close-quote after the cursor) a new shortcut for inserting note links better support for external editors full-screen support and more. There are keyboard shortcuts for searching, renaming, and tagging files, creating new ones, launching those external editors, previewing notes, and more. Keyboard lovers in particular will love nvALT, because it’s designed specifically to let you do most everything without your fingers leaving the keys. (You could, for example, tag to-do items Done or Pending.) nvALT also lets you bookmark notes, for future reference. Because of the effective search tools, tags work best as secondary organizing tools. Hitting Command-Shift-T lets you assign any number of tags to a single note select multiple notes, then hit that same shortcut, and you can tag them all at once. The app also has a simple-yet-robust tagging system. If, for example, you rigorously name all of your notes relating to a specific project Project A., and you then type Project A into the search field, all of those notes will immediately appear in the list below. This search capability leads many nvALT users to create systematic naming conventions for their notes, to aid in finding files. When you start typing a string of text in that box, the app immediately shows you a list (below the text-entry box) of all the notes that contain it as you keep typing, that list winnows itself in real time to match what you’ve typed. Rather, the app has a single text-entry box at the top of its window (much like the unified search/address field in a Web browser). One way nvALT helps with organizing all those random bits of information: When you’re looking for a specific note, you don’t have to invoke some special search interface. But nvALT has enough special tricks of its own to deserve separate treatment.) Much of what makes nvALT special applies as well to that parent program. (Before I go any further, I should point out that nvALT is really a fork of the open-source app
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