hi brett,
i have already installed notational velocity 2.0.β4 (7). downloading and then opening nv alt a dialog box says: Warning: this database was created by a newer version of Notational Velocity. Continue anyway? If you make changes, some settings and metadata will be lost.
though i push the "continue" button the application quits. do NV and NV alt live together?
what can i do to give a try to your software?
thank you!
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I'm confused by this numbering system. I downloaded Notational Velocity alt 1.0.6 and it says it's the most recent version, but this post is titled NOTATIONAL VELOCITY ALT 5.3.
5.3? 1.0.6? 7894326092546? I'm confused. I'm enjoying this fork very much though!
I had to "reset" the version numbering scheme for sanity when I decided to take responsibility for this fork, instead of just playing with it. The 1.0 release was the beginning of "nvALT" as opposed to Notational Velocity ALT, but even that got muddied in the process. Sorry for any confusion, 1.0.6 is--as of today--the current version, and the Sparkle updater will track any new releases.
Brett, your workflow sounds pretty similar to mine. Evernote and NV are my two loves, and I've finally figured out how to keep both of them happy.
It boils to down to the fact that Evernote is excellent at capturing lots of non-plain-text stuff, like you mentioned—PDFs and web clips in particular for me. Where Evernote gets frustrating is 1) finding it FAST and 2) editing (despite all their efforts). Still, it's tough to beat the web clipper for web archiving.
NV gets plain text stuff I'm editing a lot, like "living documents"—strings I've added to our web site that need to be translated, books I want but I can't afford, etc. Syncing with Simplenote keeps it quick to find stuff on iOS. The killer feature, of course, is the .txt storage, and I do that in Dropbox as well, in an "etc" folder. This also gets the third part of what you said, which is random text files. When I'm working on a web site, for example, I often find it easier to keep the notes with the project itself, so it all lives in a single TextMate window. The cool part of NV is that I can start a note in NV and move it over to a different folder if I want (or vice versa).
When I KNOW something is one place or the other, I'll search them directly; any mental friction at all, and Spotlight is just a keystroke away.
For a long time I was trying to consolidate down to one, maybe two apps for notes/clippings, but I've recently just decided to go with what seems intuitive at the moment. Quick text notes and code snippets go to NV, PDF's and printed/clipped web pages go to Evernote, and some stuff just goes to text files on Dropbox. I use Trunk Notes, too, which I love, but most of the stuff I gather there while mobile is accessed through Dropbox as plain text on my Mac.
VoodooPad is my daily log and scratchpad, and I use it for documentation projects because its web output, with a custom web plugin, can be awesome.
The beauty of all of these methods is Spotlight integration. I don't have to remember where I put a piece of info, it's all easily accessible through Spotlight. I do wish there was a continuos tagging system (a la OpenMeta) between all of them. With HoudaSpot, I can create templates that take my search and use it for tag:, keyword: and content predicates all at once, so it becomes less of an issue.
It all seems complicated, but I've found it much easier to just use "whatever works" and keep moving…
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