I adore nvALT. so much so i took a stab at making a clone in JavaScript to revel in all the subtle details you take for granted as a user but take a considerable amount of concentration to orchestrate all together as code.
Love NV and nvAlt! Still use multiple times daily. Set to keep things as individual files, Syncthing between machines, and to my iPhone (where I use 1Writer) via iCloud. Works great, shared notes is the only thing I miss from my prior nv/Simplenote setup.
I got both to compile for Apple Silicon and made an issue somewhere linking to my forks. May have been under the main scrot/nv repo.
Unfortunately, while I prefer nvAlt, it has continued to be intermittently buggy in other ways, so I've switched back to NV for the time being. Not good enough at C++ to debug things myself.
Obsidian (or Roam, Logseq, or Athens) feels like a different vehicle for information, it's useful when notetaking something that needs more structure (like a class).
nvAlt (and Simplenote) has felt better for faster scribbles or notes that are technical cheatsheets and such.
I don’t know. I used nvAlt daily for many years, then Ulysses, then Obsidian as of a few weeks go. They feel very similar to me.
They are all “very fast text editors that store your notes in a folder of text files and search them instantly.” I don’t think that the category needs a more specific definition than that.
I used it for a very long time and I loved it.
Switched to Bear then to craft a few months ago.
craft.do is the best app I’ve ever used. Kind of a different concept but really amazing once used for a few days
It’s really far from a simple markdown app. Ton of amazing features + cloud sync in all platforms.
There’s a free forever plan as well so …
There is just no competitor with as much features and support for all platforms with cloud sync. It’s in its own league. Monthly features are added and the UX is top notch.
Lots of note taking apps mentioned here. FSNotes (for Mac and iOS) is another alternative that works pretty well for keeping plain-text Markdown notes.
nvALT was one of my "gateway" apps into really finding my happy place. Before nvALT I thought Apple Notes was sufficient for me. It really revealed to me what things I wanted to be using notes for that I wasn't. But I also wanted more structure and a better mobile app than the Simplenote app.
Today Drafts fills the "easy entry" portion of nvALT, while a combination of Bear and Obsidian serve as the primary ways I organize information after that. But nvALT opened the door for me.
I’m the same exact way. Nvalt opened things for me. I now use Drafts as entry point too with Logseq, Noteplan, and Devonthink (all synced in weird ways) for organized info and daily work notes
For (neo)vim users, there's notational fzf [1], which also requires fzf to be installed [2]. For Emacs, there's Deft [3]. They all what to me are nvalt's core functionality which is fuzzy search into quick note creation/editing. They can also be used in conjunction with nvalt or other markdown based applications since all of them use plaintext. For Deft, you can also choose to create .org files.
My new love is neovim with fzf, binding fzf to CTRL+O (replicating Obsidian perfectly). All the power of vim, and much faster than Obsidian to start-up.
At one point I was so used to Notational Velocity that I needed it on Windows and didnt want to adopt other available solutions. So I built a barebones clone in Java: https://github.com/vinodkd/jNV.
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https://github.com/bkeating/nakedNV
I got both to compile for Apple Silicon and made an issue somewhere linking to my forks. May have been under the main scrot/nv repo.
Unfortunately, while I prefer nvAlt, it has continued to be intermittently buggy in other ways, so I've switched back to NV for the time being. Not good enough at C++ to debug things myself.
EDIT:
- https://github.com/scrod/nv/issues/392
- https://github.com/n8henrie/nv
[1]: https://obsidian.md/
nvAlt (and Simplenote) has felt better for faster scribbles or notes that are technical cheatsheets and such.
They are all “very fast text editors that store your notes in a folder of text files and search them instantly.” I don’t think that the category needs a more specific definition than that.
I switched to LogSeq about 3 months ago.
At this point I’m not sure it’s relevant. Obsidian has eaten its lunch.
Love the description.
https://fsnot.es
Fast Software, the Best Software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33584958 -> https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/
There is just no competitor with as much features and support for all platforms with cloud sync. It’s in its own league. Monthly features are added and the UX is top notch.
Today Drafts fills the "easy entry" portion of nvALT, while a combination of Bear and Obsidian serve as the primary ways I organize information after that. But nvALT opened the door for me.
[1] https://github.com/Alok/notational-fzf-vim
[2] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
[3] https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/