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Notational Velocity

Notational Velocity is a mouseless application for storing and retrieving notes. Created by Zachary Schneirov

Free Open Source
Mac

Notational Velocity is a mouseless application for storing and retrieving notes.

With Notational Velocity, searching for notes is not a separate action; rather, it is the primary interface. Searching encompasses all notes content and occurs instantly with each key pressed.

All content created with Notational Velocity is compressed and encrypted (enabled optionally) before it is recorded to disk. Additionally, there is no manual "saving"; all modifications take effect immediately. More Info »

Notational Velocity's window was designed for keyboard input above all else, and thus has no buttons.

You can synchronize your notes with Simplenote, or via files in Dropbox with PlainText, Elements, iA Writer, and other iOS apps.

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Category

Office & Productivity

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note-taking sticky-notes

Notational Velocity was added by rsanders in Oct 2009 and the latest update was made in Nov 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Aug 2019. It's possible to update the information on Notational Velocity or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by drewm1980

about Notational Velocity · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

The perfect text note taking application. I came here looking for a linux alternative.

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