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This is a really cool project. I love the spirit of this. I would also mention nvALT has a similar philosophy in terms of file format and supports Markdown and fast searching of notes. Sadly it is closed source and Mac only so it does not have the same overall philosophy (despite the note output being very portable).

I feel this will work for a lot of people, especially less technical users. I have settled on Org and or Markdown, to Dropbox if required sync. Emacs and or any other text editor will just works. That said just taking notes in a consistent place and in a consistent format gets you 80% of the way there. Grep and find still work. I almost always end up back there :)

Org is its own little world, but I know that I can always edit an Org file on any computer with my preferred editor.

I like this trend of back to basics in computing (even if it is running in a web browser on my desktop), its goals are nice.

edit:nvalt is open source. Mac only and as others pointed out not updated too regular but I know people who love it.

nvALT is open-source! It's a fork of Notational Velocity, on the developer's GitHub: https://github.com/ttscoff/nv

That being said, I don't think it's updated too regularly. Brett is working on a complete rewrite of the app (which will be a paid version): http://brettterpstra.com/2015/09/14/an-nvalt-and-more-status...

There's similar support in org-mode, in case you are interested in Emacs or use another platform:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-velocity.html

Also deft, if you are not using org-mode.

http://jblevins.org/projects/deft/

I use deft after trying a few other alternatives. In the end I realized that I didn't want to learn another tool just for taking notes, so it had to be both something simple and something that integrates with my editor (Emacs or Vim).

Ahh you are right. My apologies :)

Terminal Velocity is cross platform and open source and awesome. https://github.com/vhp/terminal_velocity

Yes, nvalt is Mac only.

If you are on Windows, I highly recommend ResophNotes. It isn't open source, but it's excellent software very much in the spirit of nvalt. I've combined ResophNotes with Autohotkey and Merlin Mann's notes taxonomy and it's a killer combination for me.

I use a cross-platform clone called nvPy on my primary machine, it's a pretty adequate substitute.

That looks pretty great. I've been looking for a simple (from a UI perspective) tk application to learn from and I think nvPy fits my needs nicely. Thanks!

A made a simple clone (https://github.com/wincent/corpus) of nvALT in JavaScript because it was easier for me to make an app from the ground up in Electron than it was to hack on a foreign Objective-C codebase (a little out of practice). I wouldn't recommend that anybody actually use it though because it is far from complete, albeit good enough for me to use it every day.

Interesting! I had a similar thoughts, but didn't want to start from scratch (I include Electron in this definition). Instead, I went with implementing it as a Atom package to leverage its community and other text-editing features. See https://github.com/viddo/atom-textual-velocity

Thanks for sharing, I enjoy reading your code.

Not closed.

https://github.com/ttscoff/nv

My bad! I havent used it in a while :)

nvALT has always been open source. It has to be -- it's based off of Notational Velocity, which is GPLv3.

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