![]() There are lots of good Mac/iOS options for basic note taking, starting with Apple Notes which is surprisingly capable. Probably not worth the subscription price for you then. Is Ulysses good for that kind of thing too? Notes aren’t that sophisticated, usually things like meeting notes or jotting down ideas. I cannot recommend Scrivener for a general note taking app, but it is fantastic when making notes for a document being written in Scrivener! I moved my notes into Scrivener, which since I write in Scrivener was always the obvious place to keep them. But then Notebook broke with a new Mac OS version. Now I used Circus Ponies Notebook when I needed to have notes for writing. It’s actually a closer substitute for One Note. I did a search and found Growly Notes, which at the time cost some money but is now free. Then I was underjoyed when Circus Ponies closed. Also it was incapable of saving locally and I couldn’t save to the cloud because of corporate security. I was overjoyed when One Note came out for the Mac until I tried it and found it had fewer features than the Windows version and the files could not be shared between them. I was a big One Note user in Windows, and basically “settled” for Circus Ponies Notebook for the Mac. The first is Growly Notes which is free and works very much like Microsoft One Note. I’m late to the party listening to this episode, but want to add two other note apps to the list. Not really sure what it’ll offer compared to something out for years like open-source FSNotes aside possibly from including some existing Terpstrian Markdown tools. I am unsure what is new that is unique in this upcoming app, especially compared to apps already offering nvALT features plus additional ones like better or user-created themes, or WYSIWYG, or cross-platform, or attachments. Terpstra’s nvALT fork of Notational Velocity supported MultiMarkdown, tags, and a 3rd-party browser-clipping extension. I assume we’ll see speed and well-implemented searching/tagging but aside from that I’m not sure the hype I’ve seen from Mac technoscenti will be justified. I’ll be interested to see what they come up with but from what I’ve seen so far (and from quietness from beta testers) there aren’t going to be any surprises (eg backlinks) beyond what’s been shown. Between him and Penney they’ve made some very useful, geeky tools over the years, emphasis on geeky. Voilà! :) A solution that works across systems (it would work in a similar way with Windows) and is completely portable as the notes are nothing but text files.I own Marked/Marked2 (not used much these days, though) and I regularly use one of Terpstra’s PopClip conversion extensions. Then I went to the Mac and set the source directory to be the same in Preferences > Storage as well as using Plain Text files. nvpy.cfg notes_as_txt = 1 txt_path = /home/miguel/Dropbox/nv/ simplenote_sync = 0 Then edit the configuration file to write to plain text files instead of json, to write to your dropbox folder and to keep SimpleNote off: # cat. Here are the install steps on my Fedora: # yum install python python-markdown python-pip tkinter # pip install nvpy # xdg-desktop-menu install /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvpy/sktop The bad side: no Linux version… :( And then I found nvPY, as per the author an “ugly” port to Linux, but that works. I installed in on my Mac with zero hassle and played around with it. ![]() It’s called Notational Velocity and is beautiful in its simplicity. After a lot of searching I found it yesterday. I did not want to use a central note service like SimpleNote or Evernote for security concerns and to keep my notes close at hand in case network is out, so I wanted something that was a basic note taking software with a powerful search ability. I would expect as much from a program written in Mono that hasn’t been updated for a while. What triggered it for me was the fact that on Fedora 18 Tomboy keeps crashing at random times. Of course with upgrades that all broke down and I had two different sets of notes. For a while I tried (and failed) synchronizing them using Dropbox by tricking Tomboy with symbolic links so it would think it was writing locally but actually writing remotely. ![]() I have a Fedora at work and a Mac at home and I needed to share notes between them. ![]() Installing Notational Velocity and it’s cousin nvpy ![]()
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