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.
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.
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.
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
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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://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/
[1] https://github.com/Alok/notational-fzf-vim
[2] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
[3] https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
At this point I’m not sure it’s relevant. Obsidian has eaten its lunch.
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.