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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