I write a lot of short text notes, and for many years I have been storing these notes in the fantastically useful nvALT application on my Mac (this is a fork of the almost-as-useful Notational Velocity application). If you want to write a quick note down easily and elegantly, then you want my choice, Simplenote. If you want maximum portability, compatibility, and some nerd power, then you want a folder of text files that you edit with nvUltra. If security is your primary concern, you want Standard Notes. Making this tool even more useful is the fact that nvALT can sync all of the notes with the Simplenote service. Simplenote should be with us for a while. This makes it easy to have your notes accessible from the web, or from a wide range of iOS, Android, and desktop clients. Recently, I made a change to how I worked with my notes. Rather than storing the notes in a single database file, I used the option in nvALT to instead store each note as a separate text file. This means that you can store all of your notes in Dropbox which in turn means that they can then be accessed by even more apps (especially on the iOS platform, Notesy and Byword being my two favorites at the moment). An important point to note - no pun intended - is that you can still sync notes via Simplenote in addition to syncing via Dropbox. One final point to make is that I often write many of my notes in the excellent Markdown format. In Markdown you can write a bullet point list like this: + item 1: link to ()Īnd with the appropriate Markdown-to-HTML tool - often an included feature in many of the text editors that work with Markdown - this text will render as: In a nutshell, this is a plaintext format which can be easily converted into HTML, but is often very convenient even if you don't mean to convert to HTML. nvAlt Simplenote Justin Williams’s now-defunct Elements the first Dropbox-backed text editor for iOS Vesper Bartender a Mac utility for managing all those stupid little menu bar apps Vanilla another Mac menu bar app manager Apple Support technote documenting standard Mac text editing keyboard shortcuts. What has been driving me crazy since switching to using Dropbox for my syncing is that my Markdown keeps disappearing. So far this is a problem limited to the plus characters that are used to initiate list items. So earlier, I made a test note that looked like this (click to embiggen):Īnd then I waited, and after about a minute, the note had mysteriously changed to look like this: However, you can also create list items using asterisks. My pluses had been converted to space characters. At first, I thought this may be an issue with the new iOS note editor I was using (Notesy), but this is happening even when Notesy is not running on any iOS app. Notes are tagged based on the map’s main topic title for fast. Now you can just click the little rocket next to the node it to open the note in nvALT. It turns out that the culprit was Simplenote. This script goes through all selected nodes in a MindManager mind map, taking their title text and creating a note named for it, then adding the link to that note as a hyperlink on the node. It's possible that it was due to the combination of syncing nvALT with both Dropbox and Simplenote, though I suspect that Simplenote alone was the culprit.
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