![]() ![]() In my case, with 3100 files in the note archive, generating the list of suggestions is a bit slower than note retrieval. After you type the opening double-brackets [[, nvALT will suggest existing note titles which start with the characters you type. NvALT sports a nice auto-completion feature. Apparently, there’s only one file starting with the letter ‘s’. nvALT auto-completes a wiki link after I typed ‘s’. To create links between notes, insert the note title in double brackets, like so: ]. NvALT supports wiki-link note connections. You just have to hit ⌘+L, type in the name of the note you want to create, hit return ⏎, then immediately write the note’s contents – no clicking necessary. nvALT was designed to achieve this momentum. Creating notes is blazingly fast, as is note retrieval. If the application or your computer crashes, you don’t lose data. Virtually every keystroke is stored in the file instantaneously. Afterwards, the empty note will show up to the right and the text area will be selected immediately, so when you begin type anything, it will be added to the note directly. ![]() It will be named after the string you entered into the “Search or Create” field. To create a new file, you just have to type anything into the “Search or Create” field and hit the return key ⏎ to create a new file. ![]() This is true both while nvALT is running and when you start it up after it was closed.Įssentially, nvALT is a real-time interface to a folder of files with which you can do anything you want. NvALT watches the note archive directory, so when you modify the files in the folder, nvALT will know about the changes. The application doesn’t lag behind for even a millisecond. I don’t see potential to save clicks or keyboard hits here. In total, to select a note it takes only three steps: you hit ⌘+L, type in the search string, select the appropriate note with ↑ or the mouse, and there you are. Example note in the one-size-fits-all format. When a note is selected, its content shows up to the right. You can navigate the filtered notes with the up (↑) and down arrows (↓) or select one with the mouse. That’s the same shortcut for selecting the location bar in every web browser on a Mac, by the way. You can select the “Search or Create” field with ⌘+L. Using the “Search or Create” field is the main way to interact with the application. This search term matches on both the full text of the note and its title or file name. If you enter anything into the “Search or Create” field, nvALT selects notes matching the criteria. When the “Search or Create” field is empty, the list of notes shows every note file in your whole archive directory. Watch a video by lifehacker to see the base app Notational Velocity in action and get a feel for the speed. NvALT has a unique interface, as the “Search or Create” field is there to both search for existing notes and create new ones.
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