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You can select text in the preview window and copy it to the clipboard if you paste it into a rich text editor such as Pages, your formatting will be preserved. Just hit ^⌘P to toggle the preview window.Īs you type, the preview window updates automatically. This can be very useful for writing articles and blog posts, or anything else to be published on the web. NV can turn your note into a nicely-formatted HTML page, using layout hints in the popular Markdown format. Write Markdown with instant preview and HTML export (nvALT only) For example, you could have a shared project status note which everyone in the project team can see and edit. They then have read/write access to your note in their own Simplenote clients (including NV). Collaborate using shared notesĪlthough this isn’t a NV feature as such, you can ‘share’ a note from the Simplenote iPhone app: this creates a link which you can email to your friends and colleagues. You don’t even need to think about it - Simplenote just makes it so that your notes are up to date everywhere, all the time.

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Any changes you make on your Mac will show up after a minute or two on your iPhone, and vice versa. Syncing is automatic, invisible, and over the air. The real power of your NV databank is that you can take it with you on your phone and access it from any web browser. NV syncs with the popular Simplenote web service, so any Simplenote client (including the iPhone Simplenote app, which is excellent) can access your notes.

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If you want to put a web page into NV, just copy the URL from the location bar of your web browser, switch to NV and press ⇧⌘V. NV will download the link and put the contents into a new note, complete with the original URL to remind you where it came from. Instant note from clipboardĬopy text from any application, go to NV and press ⇧⌘V to create a new note containing that text, with the first line as the note title. Now, whichever application you’re using, you can type your NV hotkey to bring NV to the front so that you can enter or look up a note. Click ‘Set…’ and type the keypress that you want to use. You can define a system-wide hotkey which will bring NV to the front (so long as it’s running): in Preferences, on the General tab, there is a setting for ‘Bring-to-Front Hotkey’. If you’re going to put everything into NV, and I recommend you do, then you’ll need to be able to access it quickly. If you put the word ‘recipe’ in the title, typing that will instantly find all your recipes.Ģ. NV works best with lots of short notes: for example, instead of one big note called ‘Recipes’, make separate notes: one for bolognaise, one for shepherd’s pie, one for cheesecake, and so on.

If no note matches what you’ve typed, just press Enter to create a new note with that title. It’s easy to find notes: just start typing in the title area and NV searches as you type, listing all matching notes. You never need to save everything you type in is saved automatically. You can use it as a kind of external brain pack or databank: anything you think you might need again, stick it into NV. NV is a great place to keep text of any kind: In this article I’ll show you 10 power user tips and tricks to get the most out of nvALT. The original application has inspired various forks, of which nvALT is perhaps the best, and adds some very useful new features. Notational Velocity (NV) is a “modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application”, as the author describes it, which is elegant, attractive, and powerful.

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