![]() No question it’s easier and simpler in DT, but you absolutely can do it from Evernote, just a bit wonkier. One of the biggest arguments people make for DT and against Evernote is ability to export data out of the app. I realize some hate having this kind of data in the cloud, but I’m fine with it. Bought a new laptop, restored from the backup, then Evernote synced with the cloud and I was immediately current, didn’t lose a single entry. Had I been on DTPO I would’ve lost what I input for those 5 days. I do weekly fully bootable cloned backups but my last one was 5 days prior to this crash. For example, my last laptop crashed, probably the logic board gone bad. I like having this information stored in the cloud from a security and data retention perspective. Virtually every app on my phone or laptop can directly create notes in Evernote. Much easier to get information into this database. Theirs hasn’t been updated in any meaningful way in over 10 years, and it was ugly back then. I like Evernote’s interface WAY more than DevonThink’s. If I’m sitting somewhere in a waiting room and want to review a cool anatomy article I captured, or chew through my to-read list, or was talking at dinner with a friend and wanted to share a fascinating article I found, or I’m on a website on my phone and want to immediately capture it into my database, Evernote makes all of that really easy. I wanted access to my database both on my laptop and on my iPhone. ![]() Why did I make the switch? A few reasons: nvALT is free.I used DevonThink Pro Office for years and about a year ago switched to Evernote for all my information repository needs and have been very happy with that switch. If you need a more robust solution, then check out Evernote (of course). It’s fast, and you can access your notes everywhere via Simplenote. For a Markdown newbie like me, it’s quite handy.Įven without the Markdown cheat sheet, and notwithstanding the limited bookmarking, nvALT is worth a look if you use a Mac. You can do this in WriteMonkey, the app that we covered yesterday. One feature that I didn’t find, that I wished were available, was the ability to access a Markdown cheat sheet with a hotkey. ![]() You can type a note using Markdown formatting, and preview the note as you go by hitting a key combination to open a preview window. I haven’t tried this feature, but Peggd does look interesting.īut we’re here to talk about Markdown, right? Markdown support was one of the features that the developers of nvALT added, that differentiates the app from Notational Velocity. If you want to share your notes, you can do so using Peggd. This is most likely because Notational Velocity and nvALT were designed to be used without a mouse. You can drag the bookmarks from a bookmarks popup menu to reorder them, but that’s about all there is to it. So, the first note that you bookmark can be accessed with Command-1, the second with Command-2, and so on. As you bookmark notes, they are added to your bookmarks sequentially. The bookmarking features are pretty basic, though. NvALT also gives you the ability to bookmark notes that you use frequently. I’ve recently started gravitating towards desktop apps with a cloud syncing component, so this is a nice feature. Although I’m a big Evernote user, I do keep a variety of text-only notes in Simplenote (generally temporary notes that I want to quickly enter and retrieve, but that will have limited or no long term value to me). The other big selling point of nvALT is its ability to sync with your Simplenote account. The whole process will feel strange at first, but is quick and easy when you get accustomed to it. To view or edit an existing note, arrow up or down to select it. To enter a new note, finish typing the title and hit Return. As you type, your entry will filter the notes in the left sidebar. Go to the box, and start typing a new note. What makes nvALT (and Notational Velocity) interesting is that the text box at the top is both a search box AND a text entry box. When you start nvALT, you’ll see a text box at the top, a column of notes in the left sidebar (along with a couple of preview lines), and note content in the main area to the right. If you’re on Windows, head on over to our look at WriteMonkey, a Windows app with Markdown support. What I didn’t know until recently was that it also supports Markdown.įor more on Markdown, check out our look at the basics of how it works. But it is different than most note taking apps that I’ve used. Well, technically it isn’t unique, since it is a fork of an open source app, Notational Velocity. I was impressed by the unique and efficient way that nvALT operated. One of the earliest apps that I downloaded on my Mac was nvAlt, a note taking app. Yesterday, we looked at a Windows app, WriteMonkey. The past couple of days we’ve talked about Markdown, a markup language that helps you easily output HTML without having to learn HTML.
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