NvALT. Here’s a. NvALT 2 is a fork of the original with some additional features and interface modifications, including MultiMarkdown functionality.
It has been developed by (David Halter) and, and made available for free (donations accepted). Please, not on Twitter or via email. It helps keep everything manageable and avoids us having to answer the same questions in a hundred different tweets and messages. Along the same lines, please take a look at existing tickets before starting a new one. Enjoying nvALT?. What it is Notational Velocity is a way to take notes quickly and effortlessly using just your keyboard.
You press a shortcut to bring up the window and just start typing. It will begin searching existing notes, filtering them as you type. You can use ⌘-J and ⌘-K to move through the list. Enter selects and begins editing. If you’re creating a new note, you just type a unique title and press enter to move the cursor into a blank edit area.
Check out the descriptions at for a more eloquent synopsis. Want a great primer on using nvALT? See Michael Schechter’s. A fork of Notational Velocity with MultiMarkdown preview and advanced Markdown editing capabilities. Other good stuff. Updated Tue Sep 19 2017. nvALT has its own update stream, so running Check for Updates from the application menu will give you updates only for this fork.
Browser Extensions For Safari and Chrome, browser extensions are available at. Clip selected link, text or entire page directly to nvALT, with optional use of Instapaper Mobilizer. Also, an all-purpose bookmarklet by Alex Popescu brings some clipping goodness to everyone, including Firefox Users. Source code Source code for nvALT is currently.
Bleeding edge features are developed in branches, but master is quite likely to be buggy, too. That’s how we roll. Additional Credits. Code: The original Notational Velocity by Zachary Schneirov. Code: DivineDominion’s Enjoying nvALT?
FoldingText isn't really a 'minimalistic live Markdown focus mode' app, it's a productivity app, closer to something like Emacs' org-mode. I have no doubt that org-mode is more powerful, if you're already living in Emacs. (I can use Emacs, but I just can't get into it as a way of life.) But FT isn't really being actively developed anymore, AFAICT. The developer switched from working on TaskPaper to FoldingText and then switched back to TaskPaper. Before TaskPaper he was working on WriteRoom, which was a minimal Markdown app, and sometimes it comes back and sometimes it doesn't.
TaskPaper is pretty neat, but when push comes to shove it could be implemented as an extension/package for nearly any competent text editor. (And in fact has for several, including Atom. Folding Text also existed as a plugin for Atom at one point.). What do you mean 'non-emacs users have a tough time contributing to documents'? I would be surprised if FT has more than, say, 10% of the features of org-mode. If you want to restrict yourself to the basics (e.g., the 10% that FT does) then org-mode is quite simple to use. Of course, org-mode is in Emacs, and that will turn some people away.
For others, the flexibility and power of Emacs may be the main draw. I myself am someone who migrated to Emacs from Vim, primarily because of org-mode, and I now use the Evil vim emulator, which makes things quite good. What do you mean 'non-emacs users have a tough time contributing to documents'? If I use org-mode files for anything more than markup such as org-babel, ditaa, properties, spreadsheets, scheduling, etc it requires all of the org-mode baggage that only exists in emacs but is what makes org-mode more useful than markdown. But even some of the more advanced org-mode features have to be manually managed if you're trying to contribute to an org-document project and are using something other than Emacs. This app looks pretty good, but this thread got me looking into org-mode, which got me wondering if there was something similar for Atom. It turns out that there is Organized, which is pretty damn close.
In a world where there seems to be a new to do list coming out every week, I've never been able to simply replace a plaintext file. Organized gives a handy little sidebar with a todo list (simple do TODO blah blah) and also an agenda.
For relatively light / non-coders like me, who don't spend their day in emacs or vim, this looks to be the perfect solution. Hi, this is Jesse. I am original designer/creator of FoldingText. Mutahhir has since taken the project over while I continue to work on TaskPaper and WriteRoom.
I see a number of FoldingText history questions. I'll try to answer all of those here. The idea of FoldingText evolved from: 1. Out of college I got to work on the Jazz ZUI (Zooming User Interface) toolkit and then build it's successor Piccolo. For me this was a super cool project to work on. I liked to take notes and tried/build various ZUI notes apps. Great fun but I always ended up using plain text files on my desktop instead of fancy ZUI app.
I gave up on ZUI for notes and decided instead to build Hog Bay Notebook, a Mac app for notes. Similar concept to Evernote (but a few years before I think). Database of text files with a full text index for searching. After a few years I was making my living selling this app, but I would still tend to go back to keeping my notes on desktop in TextEdit. Around this time added 'full screen mode' to their app. Was a popular feature, but Ulysses was a big app with lots of other features that I didn't really want.
So I spent a week making WriteRoom 1.0. WriteRoom was a very basic text editor with one feature.
That it could zoom into a nice fullscreen mode. It originated the term 'Distraction free writing'. So yeah for that!:) This quickly sold better then my notebook program which had at that point I'd put years of work into. This lead me to the conclusion that there's a market and need for simple text based alternatives to 'major' apps. Many people saw WriteRoom as a MS Word alternative, even though it was much, much, simpler. At the time 2005/2006 'Getting Things Done' apps were becoming popular, but they were pretty complicated.
Lots of chrome surrounding a simple list of tasks. I created TaskPaper as a simple text alternative to OmniFocus. The original versions were just a little syntax highliting built into TextEdit. But over time I wanted a better solution for handling large complex todo lists and so started building in outlining and filtering into the app. After a few years the end result is that TaskPaper is an outliner data model presented/edited through a plain text editor.
At this point we get to FoldingText. I didn't want to keep bolting features onto TaskPaper. I wanted it to stay 'Plain text todo lists'. But TaskPaper's underlying outliner model with a text UI seemed like it would be good a many other things. FoldingText was my attempt to generalize the outline mode/plain text UI into a platform that other's could extend. Along the way I decided to use Markdown as the plain text format that would define the underlying outline structure.
I regret that decision. It added a lot of complexity (keeping markdown parsed into runtime outliner model) and made most people think of FoldingText mostly as a markdown editor. FoldingText become a good markdown editor, but the Markdown focus clouded the bigger goal for me. By this time there were 4 of us working at Hog Bay Software. Mutahhir and I worked mostly on FoldingText. And then Mac apps stopped selling so fast and we didn't' have money to continue.
Hog Bay Software had to shrink down to only me again. And I didn't have resources to keep working on all the apps.
So I've refocused to work on TaskPaper and WriteRoom again. While Muthahhir has taken over the FoldingText project and is working on a big release soon. Along the way I've looked to lots of apps for inspiration. Early outliners in particular. But while I like them, they are problematic on how constraining they are when editing.
They are field based so you only edit one line at a time. That's why I prefer using the outliner data model, but presented as unconstrained plain text editor. Besides the history described above FoldingText was most inspired by the Cannon Cat. Maybe not so much in every feature and implementation, but in the large idea of a text based user interface. Very interesting history, jesse.
Been observing your work for a long time. Loved the reference to the canon cat (not 'cannon'). Also tickled by the idea of downloading a.pdf from 'ftp.apple.asimov.net' with 'jefraskin' in its name; 2017 giving props to the past. Never really understood the benefit of 'folding' per se, since anything not shown on the screen is 'out of sight' anyway.
Albeit an outline view is great, especially when you can click into any section. Nonetheless, love the fact that you (and others) continue experimenting with the plain-text writing interface. Keep on keeping on.
Contrary to Microsoft marketing honcho David Webster's snarky recent assertion, Macs aren't ' - at least as far as I know. However, lots of extremely rational reasons exist to choose a Mac running OS X over a Windows PC. Macs can leave you happier and more productive than you would have been if you'd bought a Windows system, and feeling you got good value for your money even though a Mac is never the cheapest option. I'm no hidebound advocate for the supremacy of Macs in every instance - the last two computers I've bought have both been Windows laptops, and I cheerfully and sincerely wrote an article called to accompany this one. But when friends toss the eternal 'PC or Mac?' Question my way, these are the points I bring up in favor of the Mac.
They're listed rough order of their positive impact on your everyday computing experience as I see it. Macs are consistently consistent. Windows Vista reminds me of the legendarily inexplicable - a place with endless wings and far-flung rooms connected by twisty staircases and secret passages. And every time Microsoft does a redecorating job (also known as an upgrade), it moves some stuff around for no apparent reason. OS X's logical, minimalist interface simply involves fewer things that must be learned and relearned, and Apple messes less with it in new releases such as Leopard. Bottom line: It's easier to get stuff done. The joy of predictability.
Anyone who's ever suffered the indignity known as a knows that Macs aren't bulletproof. But logging thousands of hours both on Windows PCs from multiple manufacturers and on Macs has convinced me that the average Mac is meaningfully less flaky than the average PC. In my experience Macs crash less, suffer from fewer inexplicable slowdowns, deal better with tight memory situations, and boot up and shut down quicker and more reliably. I don't pretend to have all the answers why, but it presumably doesn't hurt that Apple is the only company in the business that writes its own operating system and designs its own hardware. Who needs security headaches?
If the Internet's bad guys ever decide to pummel OS X with the same intensity that they've pounded on Windows for years, the free ride for Mac fans may end. But for now, this fact is indisputable: A Mac owner who uses no security software at all runs less risk of being infected by spyware or a virus than a Windows user who obsessively protects his or her PC. In the last week alone, two Windows-using pals have been crippled by attacks; I've never heard even one real-world horror story from a friend about a Mac security meltdown. Crud, or the lack thereof.
Windows is an infinitely better operating system when it isn't smothered by the demoware, adware, and other unwantedware that so many PC manufacturers splay onto the Start menu, the desktop, and the System Tray. Macs are utterly free of such junk, as well as native-to-Windows irritations like word balloons burbling out of the System Tray, Windows Activation, and User Account Control. And while PC manufacturers sometimes fix things about Windows that weren't broken-take the inscrutable Wi-Fi utility that Lenovo bolts onto Windows Vista-Apple wrote OS X in the first place. You can't tamper with your own OS.
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But it won't have an AC adapter with hooks that let you wrap up the cord for travel, or a MagSafe connector that won't get damaged if it's accidentally yanked out of the computer. It won't have an oversized touchpad with multitouch gestures that help you navigate through documents and around the Web. And it will likely be heavier and bulkier than a comparable Mac. Next time I encounter a Microsoft executive tsk-tsking about the onerous 'Apple Tax' imposed by a Mac's needless glitz, I'm tempted to ask him what car he drives-and whether he chose the model with the cloth seats and hand-cranked windows, or one with a few creature comforts. Apple is one of the world's best software companies. Forget about all those Macs, iPods, and iPhones for a moment: Apple's applications are useful, enjoyable, and innovative, from the (whose presence on every new Mac is in itself an argument for the platform) to industrial-strength tools such as Final Cut Pro.
Most run only on OS X. (The Windows versions of iTunes, Safari, and QuickTime are okay, but Apple does its best work on its own operating system and hardware.) 7.
The Apple Store's Genius Bar rocks. Buy a Mac, and you qualify for free in-person technical support from a patient rep with a deep knowledge of your system. I've had Geniuses do everything from reinstall my OS to replace broken keys on the spot.
Microsoft has to provide similar customer care at other retailers; it's worth trying, but there's no way it's going to replicate the Genius Bar experience. There are simply too many PCs from too many companies running too many variations on Windows for any one person to be an expert on everything. Hey, Macs are PCs.
By which I mean that Leopard's Boot Camp feature-and better yet the and virtualization utilities-let you run Windows, and Windows applications, on a Mac. (I do it myself on my Macs to use such Windows-only apps as TurboTax Business, as well as Office 2007, which I prefer to Microsoft's Mac version of Office.) I'm listing this last because I ultimately see running Windows on a Mac as a last resort: It's usually not necessary, and it degrades some of the other virtues of the Mac, such as protection from Windows security risks.
But when it's valuable, it's really valuable. If you've got more reasons to buy a Mac, sound off in the comments below. Also welcome: arguments against the Mac.some of which I detail in. Harry McCracken, the former editor of PC World, now blogs at.
Software I Use I am picky about the software I use. Asus m4a88td-m evo usb3 driver for mac. But I think I’m justified to be so: these are things that I use every day, and should help me get the work done I’m trying to do.
So, as things stand in 2018, here is what I install on any new machine I work with. When things get especially busy, I need a way to carve my day into blocks of time. The other problem: if I get focused on something, I’ll lose track of time. Gestimer helps remind me to take a break. While Pomorodo has never seemed to click with me, Gestimer serves as a good stand-in for that approach. If I need to focus on a task, I’ll tell the timer to remind me in 45 minutes to take a walk. It’s a small thing, but it works well for my brain.
While Apple’s default calendar app is pretty good, the ease of adding events to Fantastical can’t be beat. The natural language processing is too good to pass up, so triggering the app with a global shortcut lets me easily type “Call Paul on Monday at 3pm to discuss the podcast” all without the jumble of mouseclicks it would take to do that on any other calendar. Spotlight is good, and getting better, but for speed it can’t hold a candle to Alfred.
You should be using a password manager, and you should be using this one. Their apps are fantastic and they have great customer support. A great replacement for the default Terminal app. Vim, but just the good parts. The killer feature is a much stronger plugin architecture. Homebrew is how I install almost any software on my Mac that isn’t available in the App Store or on npm. I’ve abandoned Sublime Text and Atom for Microsoft’s Visual Code Studio when I’m doing Javascript and web development.
Although I do most of my development work in vim and a terminal, the environment of Visual Code is terrific. When I’m not doing Javascript and web development, I’m writing in R. And no R environment is complete without RStudio. Not only is it a must for development, but it makes for a as well. I was a Chrome user for years, and waffled between Chrome and Safari for a long time (especially as the iPad become a go-to computer for working and Safari became rock-solid – but more on that in a future post).
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But with the launch of the at the end of 2017, I’m back. It’s fast, privacy-conscious, and well-designed. Plus, Google is – so, I feel good throwing my support behind Mozilla and their mission to.
I have nearly ten years worth of markdown files sitting in a notes directory in Dropbox that I keep synced with. And while this setup has served me well all this time, I’ve recently begun migrating much of that to Bear. With its markdown support but also rich text abilities, lovely design, solid iCloud syncing — and, of course, a whimsical Bear — it quickly became my default app for taking notes, keeping references, storing links, or planning projects. I think I’ve tried every task manager.
After a year-long stint with Todoist, I’ve settled on Things 3. The design is gorgeous, but more than that the GTD system is still as steady and trustworthy as it was when I first started following its tenants years ago.
Todoist had too many blockers that made it ineffective for my tastes (the lack of start dates being a big deal-breaker). Things handles all of this beautifully, and handles tasks in a way that I find just so human.
You, and you really shouldn’t trust wifi networks you join from an airport or favorite coffee shop. Virtual private networks help secure your connection to networks.
(Pro-tip: use to automatically block all incoming and outgoing traffic to your computer when you join an unknown wifi connection, and only allow the VPN connection before you grant the new network any level of trust.) Pair this with and, and you have yourself a good setup for privacy and protection. And I’m lumping my sync service of choice and my backup service of choice into a singular heading.
They’re both great.
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I hate that I don't have the same formatting options on the iOS app (i.e. I can't create a list). Yep, same issue here. There are also weird syncing options. The sync seems to happen at random times. Since there is no sync button, I can't force a sync when I started a note on iOS and want to continue it on my MBP immediately.
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Well most of the time for me a great deal of time has elapsed between using a note on the different systems. However I have seen this issue and yes it would help if Apple would pull head from ass and offer up a sync button. I have to admit that Notes is what I've been using. I never could get a grip on Evernote, it just never felt natural to me.
However I do wish that Notes had a better approach to organizing a persons collection of notes. I know this rubs Apple the wrong way but being able to creat arbitrary directory structures in the file system is far more useful to me. Oh one more thing they need to bring the editing features in Notes for IOS up to the same level as seen in Mac OS.
One of the really big components of the notes I take are lists which I've yet to find a way to create in IOS Notes.