I’ve already built this system for WordPress (soon to be a Safari extension), but need to rebuild it for Cocoa. It will always work in plain text, so editing in SimpleNote, or in any of the numerous iPad apps with Dropbox or SimpleNote support will be a given. I see incorporating the full-screen mode that other forks have already accomplished, but I also see creating a nearly-invisible text editing system which stays out of the way but which makes editing Markdown as easy and efficient as possible. The basic elements are already there: widescreen view, collapsible notes panel, MultiMarkdown integration, preview and source output, and Dropbox and SimpleNote sync.
#Notational velocity alt portable
A Markdown-specific, minimalist application for gathering and developing ideas, indexing them, making them portable and cross-platform and then sharing and publishing them. What do I see it developing into? A writing app. Something with roots in the original application, but serving a different purpose (and yes, I’m pondering new names). I’m hoping that as I develop nvALT, it will become its own application, viewed not as an evolution of Notational Velocity, but as a grandchild. What follows is my vision as it stands today, some elements more concrete than others. I didn’t believe that I was going to make NV better, I thought I could build something from it. Notational Velocity happened to be Open Source, so that’s where I dug in. That’s how I learn, working backward from the desired result. nvALT is the result of my desire to get back into Objective-C and begin by reverse-engineering an application I adored.
Notational Velocity is an amazing note-taking tool, elegant in its simplicity and without much need for expansion. I’d just like to put it out there, as someone will eventually: Notational Velocity ALT (henceforth referred to as nvALT) is turning into something antithetical to the original premise of Notational Velocity.
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