#Notational velocity app osx plus#

Styles are reset after adding a new line.Pressing tab in the search/title field autocompletes notes manually.Back-tab can be used to de-indent automatically-formatted list-bullets.The tab key now right-shifts multiple-line selections and bullets only.Imported files are titled after the first line in some circumstances.The leading text of automatically-titled notes is initially selected for easy deletion.The Underline style is no longer included.

'Copy basic styles from other apps' option applies to imported URLs.Command-Delete deletes lines in the body, and the whole note elsewhere.Titles that match the search terms exactly are autocompleted first.'Deleted' notes are moved to the trash when stored as separate files.The activate-NV hotkey will switch back to the previous OS X Space.New custom icon designed by Taylor Carrigan.German localization by Benedikt Hopmann.Portuguese localization by Daniel Souza.AppleScript Search command by Greg Bell.Dragging the divider to the top or left of the window will hide search field.Highlighting of search terms can be disabled.Custom (global) foreground and background colors in the note editor.nv://make/ URL syntax for creating notes from encoded text or HTML.'Copy URL' command for copying a unique nv:// links to notes.'Show in Finder' command for revealing selected note-files on disk.Allow picking alternate file extensions as the default for new notes.Note-titles inside double-brackets are (optionally) auto-completed.Words between ] will become links to other notes.Fully plain-text-based automatic list-bullet formatting.TaskPaper-compatible strikethrough formatting using the tag.Added a Strikethrough style to the Format menu.Option for horizontal layout with multi-line previews in notes list.Tags are auto-completed while typing in the tag-entry field.Tags are synced to Dropbox and searched by Spotlight, via OpenMeta.That way when you do incremental searches, you won’t have to dig through 1,000 lines to find all the references in one note. Hint: As the author notes, you really get the most bang from keeping your notes very short and atomic. I’m thinking if you combine this with i-search (to incrementally sub-search within your actual text field) you may have something approaching a killer app.

#Notational velocity app osx plus#

NV supports all the Cocoa goodness (key bindings, spell checking, drag and drop, etc.) plus it’s ace at handling export and import of notes.ĭefinitely not for everyone, but if you just need a simple app for capturing bits of information, this may be the answer to your prayers. It takes a minute to get your head around the concept, but it’s a powerful idea and brilliant in practice. If you hit RETURN at any point, you generate a new note with its title set to whatever you just typed. If you’re just typing in the field, it acts as a full-text, incremental, live search on all of your notes and their contents. It does this by an uncanny dual use of a single text field for both searching and creation of your notes. This is really pretty neat.Īll Notational Velocity does is record little notes, but it does that in a way that is completely elegant, intuitive, and incrementally searchable. I’d been seeing a lot of gushy notices about Zachary Schneirov’s note-taking app, Notational Velocity, and I think I now see why.