nvALT - quick and effortless notes and snippet manager

If you collect a lot of notes, snippets and website links over the day managing all those can be a real pain.

Notational Velocity is a way to take notes quickly and effortlessly using just your keyboard. You press a shortcut to bring up the window and just start typing. It will begin searching existing notes, filtering them as you type. You can use ⌘-J and ⌘-K to move through the list. Enter selects and begins editing. If you’re creating a new note, you just type a unique title and press enter to move the cursor into a blank edit area. 

nvALT 2 is a fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications, including MultiMarkdown functionality.

NOTATIONAL VELOCITY FEATURES

• Option for horizontal layout with multi-line previews in notes list
• Words between [[double-brackets]] will become links to other notes
• Tags are synced to Dropbox and searched by Spotlight, via OpenMeta
• Tags are auto-completed while typing in the tag-entry field
• TaskPaper-compatible strikethrough formatting using the “@done” tag
• Fully plain-text-based automatic list-bullet formatting
• Note-titles inside double-brackets are (optionally) auto-completed
• “Show in Finder” command for revealing selected note-files on disk
• Highlighting of search terms can be disabled
• Dragging the divider to the top or left of the window will hide search field
• Open in external text editor

NVALT ADDITIONAL FEATURES

• Textile and (Multi)Markdown support with Preview window (hold down Control to view temporarily)
• HTML source code tab in the Preview window for fast copy/paste to blogs, etc.
• Unique interface design changes
• Customizable HTML and CSS files for the Preview window
• Social note sharing via Peggd
• Convert imported URLs to Markdown, and optionally strip excess content with Readability
• Multi-note tagging with autocompletion
• Full-screen mode (requires OS X 10.5 or higher)
• Optional menubar and menubar-only modes
• Color schemes
• Black/White
• Low-contrast
• User customizable
• Collapse/Expand notes list and search field
• Improved readability with optional width limit and margins
• Really cool scrollbars
• Word Count (hold down Option to view temporarily)
• Working localizations (French, German, Portuguese)

Both versions are free to use use and open-source under the GPL.

Download NOTATIONAL VELOCITY

Download NVALT 2.0