Notational Velocity

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Notational Velocity
Notational velocity screenshot.png
Notational velocity main window
Developer(s) Zachary Schneirov
Stable release
2.0β5 / 31 March 2011;10 years ago (2011-03-31)
Repository
Operating system Mac OS X
Type Notetaking software
License GPL-3.0-or-later
Website notational.net

Notational Velocity is a computer program for Mac OS X used for notetaking. It allows users to create notes using solely a computer keyboard and search them using incremental find. Other features include database encryption, basic text formatting, tags and spellcheck. [1] In addition, users can synchronize notes with Simplenote and export to a variety of formats, including plain text, HTML and rich text. It has been recommended along with Simplenote as a solution for taking and syncing notes by both Wired and Lifehacker. [1] [2]

Notational Velocity hasn't seen any development activity since September 2011. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dachis, Adam (27 June 2011). "The Best Syncing Note-Taker for Mac". Lifehacker. Retrieved 11 January 2012..
  2. Sorrel, Charlie (27 April 2010). "Simplenote and Notational Velocity Bring Document Syncing to iPad". Wired. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  3. "scrod/nv". GitHub. Retrieved 6 May 2016.