Notational Velocity

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

Notational velocity main window
Developer(s)	Zachary Schneirov
Stable release	2.0β5 / 31 March 2011; 13 years ago (2011-03-31)
Repository	github.com/scrod/nv
Operating system	Mac OS X
Type	Notetaking software
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Website	notational.net

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

In 2013, Elastic Threads (David Halter) and Brett Terpstra created a fork of Notational Velocity with added functionality called nvALT. nvALT was last updated in 2017.^[4]

In 2019, Brett Terpstra and Fletcher Penney started working on a replacement for nvALT called nvUltra. As of 2023, nvUltra is available as a closed Beta release.^[5]

See also

• Comparison of notetaking software

References

1. 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.
4. "nvALT". Retrieved 11 October 2023.
5. "nvUltra". Retrieved 11 October 2023.