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Been using this for a few weeks, and it is great! I'm sure that, compared to Evernote, it misses features that are important to some, but it adds a few of its own and is so much faster to use it's in another league entirely.

Looking forward to the upcoming iOS version. The one feature I miss the most, besides that, is something like Evernote's menu bar app, for quick entry/scratchpad.

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If there is an iOS version I'll jump from NVAlt/SimpleNote to this plus dropbox and write a migrator

I would love to migrate away from NVAlt, really hoping that Quiver is the answer. NVAlt is great, but the combo of no tags + no iOS version has been a thorn in my side for years.

If you sync to simplenote you can use the simplenote iOS app which I've had good luck with. I'd rather use dropbox as my syncing layer though...

Last I checked NValt DOES have tags...

I would switch to Quiver in a heartbeat, but aside from iOS or at least some syncing functionality, it would have to do the following as well:

1. implement search just like nvALT does it. The particular interface to search is one of nvALT's best features, and I prefer it over the 'dropdown' interface that Quiver uses. 2. support for basic vim keybindings to switch between notes (j and k at least).

Can you talk about some of the pros and cons you've found compared to EverNote?

I use EverNote a lot, and have dozens of quick programming notes. The MarkDown syntax support here is very nice, but I don't think that alone is going to be enough to make me switch.

I'm not a poweruser of Evernote, and maybe not of Quiver either. The syntax highlighting and Markdown support is nice, but the main thing for me is really how quick and responsive Quiver is, compared to Evernote which is buggy, slow and clunky. All in all, I get the feeling the author looks for the same qualities in an app as I do.

I just looked in Quiver 3- if you open Quiver's preferences, the shortcuts pane has the option to assign a hotkey to open a quick entry.

this, of course, relies on you having it running already.

Yep, exactly, just having to have the menu bar app running would be even better! (Though I suppose closing the window but leaving the app running gets you close)

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