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1. WINDOWS APPS EXACTLY LIKE NOTATIONAL VELOCITY OR NVALT PORTABLE
2. WINDOWS APPS EXACTLY LIKE NOTATIONAL VELOCITY OR NVALT SOFTWARE
3. WINDOWS APPS EXACTLY LIKE NOTATIONAL VELOCITY OR NVALT FREE
4. WINDOWS APPS EXACTLY LIKE NOTATIONAL VELOCITY OR NVALT MAC

On the Mac I’ve tried iA Writer and Byword, but I now spend most of my time in Brett Terpstra’s nvALT. Once you’ve settle on the Markdown format, you’re ready for the most difficult stage of the switch: figuring out which of the hundreds of great applications to write and edit plain text files works best for you. Here’s another Markdown syntax guide to get you going. The PHP Markdown WordPress plugin further allows any WordPress site to publish with Markdown.

WINDOWS APPS EXACTLY LIKE NOTATIONAL VELOCITY OR NVALT SOFTWARE

So does MarsEdit, the software I use to write and publish to this site. The latest email app to take the Mac world by storm, Airmail, has native Markdown support. I write pretty much everything in Markdown now, and as more and more applications start to support it natively, I only see its popularity growing. The syntax remains easily readable without getting in the way of your words. At the same time, it’s a powerful system for formatting documents automatically when you need to print them out, or send something to a colleague or client. Markdown is an easy-to-learn, inconspicuous syntax that lets you focus on what you’re writing without getting bogged down in what it’s going to look like once you’re done. I cannot sing the praises of Markdown enough. If you want more efficiency and clarity in your writing, this is the way to do it 1.

WINDOWS APPS EXACTLY LIKE NOTATIONAL VELOCITY OR NVALT FREE

With those three things in place you’ll be all set to free yourself from the shackles of word processors and WYSIWYG editors. To move your note-taking and writing to plain text you need three things: I hope that it will convince at least some of you to take the plunge with me. This is a short post about the tools I use to do the vast majority of my writing (business as well as personal). You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find people at a party who are willing to listen to me rant about word processors. I simply work more efficiently since switching to plain text.Īnd yet I haven’t been able to convince many people to join me in uninstalling Microsoft Word and moving most (if not all) of their writing to plain text. I love how easy it is to create beautifully formatted documents when needed.

WINDOWS APPS EXACTLY LIKE NOTATIONAL VELOCITY OR NVALT PORTABLE

I love that it’s portable and can be used anywhere and everywhere, in any piece of software that edits or displays words. I love that with plain text the focus is on the words, not the formatting. In fact, please allow me a moment to declare my undying love for plain text. This is partly because of how bad most of those products are, and partly because other alternatives - particularly plain text - have become so intriguing. There is a growing uprising against word processors and WYSIWYG editors of late. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. The text files can also be edited directly in DEVONthink, sync back to Justnotes, and of course are available in my favorite iOS text editors.I hate Microsoft Word. Justnotes supports OpenMeta tags and can work with multiple folders, which I store on Dropbox and index into their respective DEVONthink databases. Having said that, I find Justnotes a better option than the Sorter’s Note Taker or nvAlt. The escape key works if you are taking notes using the Take Note window described above. It can be hidden with command-m, to minimize the Sorter tab. Ideally, it could be hidden using the same short cut that’s used to activate it, it would autosave and use the standard db as its standard inbox. If you leave DEVONthink running, turn off the Sorter and the take note shortcut (set in the Sorter preference tab) will still bring up a Take Note window.Įverybody has different needs, of course, but as a quick entry panel, the sorter doesn’t work for me. It simply doesn’t save any clicks, it’s not faster than opening DEVONthink itself and just entering the note there. The Sorter’s note taker remembers your last database and group destination, so it will continue to default to that location unless you change it. I tried the sorter for a short while when it was introduced and alas, still find it unelegant for two reasons.įor one, it doesn’t seem possible to enter a note just using the keyboard, at least I can’t find a way to press “send” without using the mouse.Īlso, although this much less annoying, I never use the global inbox for anything, so it takes even more clicks to choose the standard db.