Side note: Jef Raskin's son, Aza Raskin seems to be carrying on his father's legacy, with the development of tools like Ubiquity and Enso. One quote mentioned in the interview is particularly striking " If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monotony would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product." Perhaps this statement explains Notational Velocity's popularity. In an interview with the original Notational Velocity developer, it is apparent that Jef Raskin's book, The humane interface: new directions for designing interactive systems, was an influence in the development of the product. The interface is very minimalist-you don't waste time organising your notes in countless folders, you don't need to waste time hunting for notes, or even checking whether you have a previous note on a given topic-what you do is to type one or more keywords in the search bar and all the notes that match instantaneously appear.
It's really hard to understand why without trying it out yourself, or the next best thing, taking a look at a video demonstration (by Paul Miller on ). How in the world would I keep track of hundreds or even thousands of notes (all the notes instantaneously searchable, with virtually zero lag)? Every time I use it, it just amazes me. Right now, 3 weeks later, I don't see how I could use anything else-for text notes, Evernote/Google Docs doesn't come anywhere close.
About 1-2 weeks later, I started to get serious and was hooked. Curious, I decided to try it out (I used the nvALT variant), and input my first note on 17 Jul, 2014. So one day, I came across an article about Notational Velocity. Moreover, the possibility that I might have to pay for a subscription if I used it too often, as well as the fear of lock-in was a deterrent to me. Around that time, along came Evernote, but I didn't really see how it was terribly different from Google Docs at the time.
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Most of my notes were stored in either plain text, or in Google Docs. Notational Velocity is a computer program for Mac OS X used for notetaking.wikipedia. Later on, I started to try to take my notes electronically more often.
I think this could be used for any file naming, whether it be from NV, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, etc. David, thank you for the insight into how you name your text files.
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Pretty soon, my notes were all over the place, in multiple notebooks, occasionally in random scraps of paper, and I soon lost track of everything. 30 Comments Notational Velocity Naming Conventions. Chrome OSNotational Velocity Chrome OS Blackberry 10 Mac Software as a Service (SaaS) Safari Apple Watch Vim Chrome fzf Windows Phone iPad Android Wear Opera Firefox OS Windows S Blockstack Linux iPhone Android Tablet Gmail Firefox Self-Hosted Web Windows BSD Internet Explorer Chrome OS Android Kindle Fire. During my PhD, I initially wrote down most of my notes by hand in a journal.