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I never used Notational Velocity, but this seems like an awesome UI to use for Notes. As long as you have powerful search you can always find your notes by their content and create new ones when the ones you find aren't relevant.

How many times I've created a new note related to something I wrote about before, but didn't want to search for. Now I'd basically be forced to search for it when I tried to create the new note and I'd assume this would help keep all those thoughts and ideas at least somewhat related to each other.

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Or just use Sublime and a cloud. Ctrl+Shift+F will search all your notes. (https://github.com/galfarragem/hamster-gtd)

That's what I do at the moment. I have an open window of ST3 at all time with a bunch of notes in there.

It really is great, I've been using it for years -- and all my notes are stored as plain-text (markdown) files. Only downside is images really. If you want to try it, check out this more-recently-updated fork. The creator of the fork is apparently working on a replacement that I'm rather looking forward to trying.

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

Any recommendation for a companion iOS app to sync with NValt?

nvNotes[1] was great, but the latest version removed Dropbox syncing (because the developer was using an older API that is being deprecated) and now it's... no so useful. Combined with nvALT[2] on the Mac, this used to be a great combo.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nvnotes-note-taking-writing-...

[2] http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

1Writer[1] is the best I've tried, assuming you're using Dropbox for sync.

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1writer-note-taking-writing-...

And Brett Terpstra -- the programmer of nvAlt -- uses 1Writer as well. He reviewed 1Writer in 2015 and continues to recommend it.

http://brettterpstra.com/2015/01/28/my-pick-for-best-ios-nva...

nvAlt integrates with Simplenote for syncing. More here: https://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/superpower-your-not...

Thanks for this. I've been using Notational Velocity for years and often occasionally looked for an update but found none.

What's the replacement you mentioned? I didn't see any info on the linked site.

Apparently it's going to be called bitwriter (see the bottom of this post http://brettterpstra.com/2016/02/12/marked-2-dot-5-4-updates...) but there's not much information out there yet.

It's been more than a year. Hopefully not abandoned.

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