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Data export: how does the application manage to get everything out without losing information? How does it manage to get stuff in?.

Note connections: which mechanisms does the app support to create connections?.

Note creation: does it take many clicks or keystrokes to create a new Zettel note?.

Note retrieval: for example, how fast and easy is full-text search?.

This is how the app looks on first start Testing nvALT: the Four CriteriaĪs a reminder, the key elements I look at will be:

#Notational velocity alt archive

I recommend you follow his setup steps to use a directory of plain text files instead of an arbitrary database.Īlso, I suggest you put this note archive directory into your Dropbox folder so you can access your notes from other devices. See Michael Schechter’s nvALT 101 for a general introduction and configuration tips. You can customize the font, colors, and even the width of the text area so you can use the application in full-screen mode on widescreen displays comfortably. Initially, the app is in portrait mode, with a smallish font and a few example notes. the contents of a selected note, which is a text field you can write in to.the list of notes, filtered according to the search term,.Looking at the picture above, nvALT has three elements I will refer to: Enter nvALT nvALT as it looks on my machine This app is Mac only, sadly, but there are alternative implementations popping up which promise to work on every platform. I mean, really, a LOT, as in 3000 and counting. I use nvALT since 2010, and I think it’s the best product available to create and find notes quickly and to manage a lot of them. It’s Open Source, free, and very popular. nvALT is a fork by Brett Terpstra and David Halter of the original Notational Velocity, which was created by Zachary Schneirov, and a few modifications by yours truly. While most things apply to the Notational Velocity base application, I will talk about nvALT exclusively in this review.

I want to start this series of reviews with a software I’m fairly familiar with.