nv VS notational-fzf-vim

Note nvUltra, the successor to this program, has been in development/private beta for several years[1,2].

I've been meaning to make my own web-based version of Notational Velocity that adds a few novel features of my own. (Plus inspiration from apps like TaskPaper and Drafts)

There are a lot of Notational Velocity clones; currently my favorite is: https://simplenote.com/

[1]: https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

[2]: https://nvultra.com/

I'm still happy with Apple Notes for its integration with all of Apple Apps, easy sharing with family members, etc. I have tamed it more as an ephemeral and quick Notes App. The notes that starts there are usually transferred to a more permanent and organized Plain-Text setup[1] (currently guardian-ed by Obsidian).

If I had to replace Apple Notes, I'd look at either one of these;

- https://simplenote.com

- https://bear.app

- https://www.craft.do

- https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2022/plain-text/

I used to think like that, stored everything in Pinboard, tagged properly. I also used to use nvalt (https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/) for that as it had good search and I didn't have to switch to other tabs to search Pinboard.

It felt good to "catalog" all this knowledge but in reality I never went back to it, just like bookmarks and I realized that if something is important enough I'll always be able to re-find or re-download almost everything I ever found.

Not feeling like you have to catalog and store everything in personal knowledge management apps is very liberating.

Probably worth noting the actual project page: https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

notational-fzf-vim is similar to shell-velocity and also looks pretty good, but is now unmaintained and I do not have the knowledge to maintain it myself should something break. Has the same lack of automatic git syncing.

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.

[1] https://github.com/Alok/notational-fzf-vim

[2] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

[3] https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/

nb is very good and I've used it extensively for the last 2 years or so. I especially like that you can just throw it a url and it will create a bookmark as well as download a markdown version of the page (using pandoc to convert I think?) This is very useful, especially when links go stale

Also, if you install notational-fzf-vim (https://github.com/Alok/notational-fzf-vim) and point it at the nb folder, searching through notes becomes a breeze. Additionally, you can use vim-markdown-composer (https://github.com/euclio/vim-markdown-composer) as a previewer for markdown in vim.

Have you looked at https://github.com/renerocksai/telekasten.nvim or https://github.com/alok/notational-fzf-vim ?

I use Notable on Linux and Noteless on Android, with Foldersync for automatically syncing. I tried Obsidian, and prefer Noteless' interface, where I can see all notes just reverse sorted by modification time. Both have a tag view.

In addition, there's the excellent vim plugin https://github.com/Alok/notational-fzf-vim that allows fuzzy search of notes in vim.

https://github.com/alok/notational-fzf-vim/issues/90 Weird issues but the plugin itself is simple and smart.

Hi , pls help I am trying to get https://github.com/alok/notational-fzf-vim to work.

I'm still in love with alok/notational-fzf-vim. It gives a notational-velocity like interface via fzf.

I use nb https://github.com/xwmx/nb for both bookmarks and notetaking. nb downloads a shallow copy of the link and stores it along with the bookmark.

All notes (and consequently bookmarks and their contents) are stored as plain-text markdown files - so there's no dependency on a proprietary format, and all the content becomes searchable.

If you're a vim-user, you can also get the notational-fzf-vim plugin (https://github.com/alok/notational-fzf-vim) and point it to the notes/bookmarks folder, and have full fuzzy search over all the content.