So as expected, in the course of writing this post, I stumbled across Falcon. My notes and text files are like weather apps, I just can’t stop fiddling with new apps, new systems, new approaches. There are more than 100 alternatives to nvALT for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and Linux. FSNotes also has a Mac app, which works fine, and which I purchased to throw another $3 the developer’s way, but don’t use much. nvALT is described as fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications by Brett Terpstra and ElasticThreads and is a popular Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. FSNotes works well on iOS, able to find notes, and add content to notes from my iPad. The Archive has great UI, themes, and full-text search. The Archive $20 on the Mac, pointed at FSNotes’ Mobile Documents/ as the notes directory.Note files stored in FSNotes iCloud directory (sync).A turnaround is expected in the current fiscal year, with revenue expected to. Brett has said he is working on a successor to nvALT, which I eagerly await. Its annual revenue was flat at 27 billion, while adjusted earnings fell 25 over the prior year to 3.34 per share. It worked well, but development on nvALT long-ago ceased. I was a long-time user of Notational Velocity and later Brett Terpstra’s nvALT on the Mac with 1Writer on iOS - all text file notes stored in 1Writer’s iCloud directory, nvALT pointed to that directory in Mobile Documents/ on Mac. I would much rather a larger up-front purchase price, impulsive purchases are no-problem for me (a separate, but at least one-time, problem no doubt). Besides, I have a dislike of app subscriptions, I can only subscribe to so many things, every month I am reminded to reconsider my decision. Bear was great, but I didn’t like the files inside a SQLite database approach - having to run an export to have a backup was too much trouble. Anything that doesn’t store notes directly on the filesystem in text files doesn’t last long with me. Like David Sparks I have tried a number of note systems over the years, including Bear and Apple Notes. This involves finding existing notes (search), and adding new note content. I need to be able to get to my notes, easily, on multiple platforms: Mac OS, iPad, iPhone. ![]() MailMate on the Mac for all email, fantastic search, but that is a topic for another post. My notes and my email archive are, in effect, my work “memory”. ![]() A touch of Markdown, but rarely rendered Markdown, just bullets and headers in the text for organization. No attachments, no embedded content, no tagging. ![]() Location (if not a phone call, where was I, helps the memory).
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