– You can store notes as plain text for super duper ubiquity However, if that sounds like a load of crap (my word usually is…), then here are a few actual reasons: Well, first of all, you really should take my word for it and give Notational Velocity a shot if you haven’t already done so. Well, that icon is no longer an alternative - it’s now red, and it’s now official.
#NOTATIONAL VELOCITY IOS APP MAC#
If you’re a regular reader of iSource, you may remember a little Mac App icon post that I published a week or two ago that included an alternative icon for Notational Velocity. The feature is still pretty fresh in my mind, but I might end up using it for quickly referencing other notes, or quickly showing related notes (ex. You can then click on that link with your mouse pointer to go directly to that search or note. If you want to make specific links to other notes, all you have to do is place a word or note name within double brackets to turn it into a direct link. I still have to think of a particular use for this feature, but it does seem like a really great idea. I’m especially liking the look of my “small font” list without any note previews - it’s so clean I could cry. This was a concept that a few Notational Velocity alternatives played around with, and I’m glad to see it implemented in the main version of the app. What this seems to do is sync NV tags across Dropbox accounts and make them searchable via Spotlight (something I’m not terribly interested in). Unfortunately, this tag syncing has nothing to do with Simplenote, so if you were looking forward to taking advantage of Simplenote tags within NV, you’re still out of luck.
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It’s still not as good as an actual rich-text bullet point, but it’s much faster than creating bullet points manually, and it’s great to see these bullet points sync over to iPhone text editors in one piece (the iPhone can’t edit rich text).
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Press tab, type out a dash, enter your text, then press enter to create a new bullet point right underneath your first one.
#NOTATIONAL VELOCITY IOS APP UPDATE#
A monster of an update hit the excellent plain text editor, Notational Velocity, recently, and although there are far too many changes for me to detail in one post, here are a couple of changes that I found especially interesting: