I came across this app today and immediately thought “why hasn’t merlin posted something like this on 43Folders?” And then a couple hours later, here it is. nice.

I’ll have to try it though. have only read about it thus far.

so I played with it a bit more . way cool.
to take one of your ideas a step further Merlin: I tried to type text into quicksilver, append to, notational velocity. alas, it doesn’t take it. you get the little ‘bong!’ that it isn’t allowed.
THAT would be totally ideal I think, for keeping your lists. at least for me since I don’t like a lot of little text files around.

Good catch, Nick. That’s actually for a reason that’s sort of cool, if a little limiting, I suppose. NV is all a self contained app that keeps your info locked up tight, and, like all the good ones, stores your password stuff in the OSX keychain.

It would be neat, to me, if this worked just a bit differently: if NV were just a functional front end to a directory of text files—if it retained almost all of the same functionality, but kept each note in its own separate text file. That would be golden for my particular workflow.

Whatcha think, Zachary? You up for a little Lazy Web? :)

Curses! Foiled again!

I’ve been playing with Tomboy on my work linux box and was planning on either porting it to OS X or writing something similar from scratch. Yet another itch that was scratched before I could get to it :).

Merlin only lives to annoy you, Mando. :-)

You can get SBook5 — the grownup version of Notational Velocity here:

http://www.sbook5.com/

It’s got a change of name [methinks for legal reasons] but the same engine underneath and it does a lot more.

Good link and great-looking app, Allan.

Why “grown up,” though? What’s your favorite feature or 2 as apart from NV?

yeah… i’ll add this to the list… i’ve also used mac journal, voodoo pad, and sticky brain. i’m just beginning to investigate gtd but have been trying out all of these note/text apps for 2-3 years and i’ve yet to settle on one i like.

one thing i’ve not seen mentioned in relation to gtd: filemaker pro. anyone using it for tracking tasks and projects?

The author adamantly says “… the user need never lay hands on a pointing device” but to delete a note you have to use the before-mentioned device twice: to select the note and… to click on the Delete button (Cmd-D doesn’t work).

Of course you can suppress the warning on deletion and… never delete any note — but find some reusable titles because you cannot rename them either :)

But the usability is mainly very well thought — I wish more apps were that cool and simple.

Sbook has been around since Nextstep. I don’t think it has any relation to NV. I don’t remember how it stores its information- probably not plain text.

The idea of figuring out what kind of information you’re entering and formatting/sorting it accordingly is pretty nice, but Sbook is a far from killer implementation.