![]() It’s a great place to store and refer back to anything. It’s OCR capabilities and overall flexibility makes it a great part of my paperless workflow. I’m currently using an Asana for my work tasks and Omnifocus for my personal tasks.Īfter getting into the 5by5 network, namely the wonderful Back to Work podcast, and hearing about Merlin Mann’s text file-based workflow, I decided to give it a try.Įvernote has become more of a digital file cabinet for me. I used to be an avid Evernote user, with my most recent jaunt being using Evernote as a GTD system (which I’m still failing at). I’ll get into a few of my favorite features of Write as I continue, but just know that using Write App or nvALT by itself will change your game, but using both for Mac-based and iOS writing, and you’ve got a stew goin’! It’s the mobile center of this workflow, and it’s feature suite is incredibly thorough and complete. Write App/Write for Dropbox: Write App is fairly new to the game, but is so awesome.It’s got a great, simple interface that flows smoothly, is Markdown compatible (more on this later) and just has a whole host of great features. nvALT: A fork of Notational Velocity and developed by the great Brett Terpstra, nvALT is a simple writing solution for the Mac.It’s a great solution for file syncing and sharing across all your devices. Dropbox: Dropbox needs no introduction or description.Drafts for iOS and TextExpander for iOS and Mac (Note: These apps aren’t required for this workflow, but man do they make some awesome magic happen.)įor those that are unfamiliar with these apps, here’s a quick breakdown:.I’ve long looked for the perfect solution to capture notes and have them anywhere, all the time and I think I’ve discovered it (at least for now). While writing isn’t my occupation, I find myself needing to capture information all the time. You can find him on Twitter as or at his website. He’s passionate about technology, BBQ, and coffee. He works with students, faculty, and staff to solve media production-related hardware and software problems. Chris is a Digital Media Specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Then for example pressing ⎋↓↓↩ would go to the second most recently modified note.The following is a guest post by Chris Humphries. (It takes about 5 to 10 seconds from the first edit.) Most of the time that's not a problem though.Īnother (and probably the best) option would be to sort Notational Velocity's note list by Date Modified. NV doesn't save changes to external files immediately. Otherwise open the second most recently modified note.If the most recently modified note is not selected, open it.Tell application "System Events" to keystroke return Grep -v '^'" & quoted form of p & "'.txt$' | Grep '^'" & quoted form of p & "'.txt$' -B 1 | Set p to value of text field 1 of group 1 of tool bar 1 of window 1 The best workaround I've come up with: ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/nvALT/jump.scpt, ⌃␣ in FastScripts tell application "System Events" to tell process "nvALT" But that had a few additional issues, and the scripts were pretty unintuitive to use. I've tried writing AppleScripts that were based on the modification date of the external text files for notes. How would NV determine what the "last" note was? Would that be the last note edited? The last note where the editor had focus? The last note selected? How would it differentiate between selecting a series of notes using Command-J/K, the left/right keys, or dragging across them with the mouse? The developer of Notational Velocity in a comment to #64: Simple: Jump back to last note, Advanced: Browsing history - Issues - scrod/nv - GitHub:
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