Marginally-related, but too awesome to ignore: Worth a look in the land of text editors: Kieran Healy has helpfully mapped several text editors onto Lord of the Rings locations. If you are looking for low-stress ways to turn your otters into actual writing, nvALT is worth a look. The arguably more exciting news is that Elastic Threads has released new browser extensions for Chrome and Safari that make it even easier to get information (either the current page, a linked page, or selected text) into your notes. That should make things more consistent for users. I mention all of this simply to point to two new developments this week: first, a new version has been released, and with it the announcement that, going forward, nvALT will merge with the main release of Notational Velocity. It’s the easiest way to get from “in my head” to “drafted” that I can think of. More generally, I can say that every piece of writing that I’ve done over the past 9 months or so that’s not an e-mail, a wiki contribution, or a Google Docs collaboration has been done in nvALT. Eddie Smith has often written about ways to use nvALT, and Caleb McDaniel has shown how to use Notational Velocity as an easy task management system (previously linked). LifeHacker has a video showing off the virtues of Notational Velocity here, and Ben Brooks explains some of the strengths of nvALT. Simple formatting is possible, and you can sync your notes across machines in a variety of ways. If what you’re typing matches text you’ve already entered, those notes come up for possible editing if what you’re typing is wholly new, then the app creates a new note. The basic idea of the app is that you just start typing. nvALT is a fork by Brett Terpstra and David Halter/Elastic Threads, of Notational Velocity, which is designed to be as friction-free a way to take notes as possible. You can change the title, the content, the tags - as long as the ID remains the same, the rest of your archive will not be affected.NvALT is a Mac application that lies between conventional text editors and elaborate external-brain programs such as Evernote, DevonThink, and OneNote. Linking notes by an arbitrary identifier (we suggest using date-based numbers for that purpose) helps keep links stable between notes. (Also, file name changes usually feel more important than tag changes to me.) When you get used to using tags like this, it's easier to change a note fundamentally in the future, like splitting its contents into multiple other notes, extracting each informational part as its own piece, then leave the original as an index, subsequently changing tags to better fit its new contents. Tags are loose connection between notes, and you can add or drop them from notes anytime without much effort. It makes your thinking more rigid, though. The name prefix doesn't have any advantage when it comes to full-text search. Using the search, you can drill down your recipes by searching for #recipe #low-carb #cake, for example, hopefully resulting in a low-carb cake recipe But now you can add other tags, too, like #baking, #low-carb, #cake, or what have you. The idea is to let nvALT be the receptacle of whatever fragments of information you want to write. The app is a fork of the open-source app Notational Velocity, an application designed to let you write notes on your computer. This doesn't produce any benefit on its own, except maybe show more of the actual note title because you can remove the repeating "recipe" prefix. nvALT lays somewhere between text editor and note-taking app it's a free-to-use Mac app for web-heads. Then you can use the full-text search for "#recipe" to get to the set of notes that are recipes. I'd suggest you try to move the info "this is a recipe" from the file name into the note text as a tag: #recipe. This mimicks a rigid directory structure. The note title structures you use are useful when you sort notes by name: then you have all recipes next to one another, for example. Let me tackle the note-related question first: How does The Archive handle images? Is there a tool that will allow viewing of 'The Archive' notes on iOS and include images? On iOS I am currently using Editorial and have used 1Writer in the past. How could i transfer this structure to Zettelkasten? I have very few links between notes or tags.ģ. I have set up nvalt using the note title as means of finding my way around my notes. What are the functional differences between NVAlt and The archive, on the surface they seem very similar appsĢ. Searching twitter for any updates i have found reference to 'The Archive' and have been intrigued by its use if Zettelkasten (not something i have heard about before). I have been a longtime NVAlt user and have been waiting a long time for its replacement (Bitwriter).
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