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Re: Show HN: Notational Velocity for Vim

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Post by justusthane »

drewm1980 wrote: post #5

Isn't editing existing notes fundamental to notational velocity UX? I have also been missing NV since leaving Mac OS is 2012. Shame the whole NV codebase is tied to Apple only frameworks. Nothing important about NV is even Mac specific; it is just three textboxes with well thought out key bindings; it's not using a bunch of fancy GUI framework features.

I believe that pressing Enter on a result opens the selected file as a buffer for editing. I think they mean that the plugin itself won't modify existing files, not that you can't modify existing files.

Re: Show HN: Notational Velocity for Vim

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Post by jsilence »

RaycatRakittra wrote: post #7
tomcam wrote: post #6

I just use org mode.* * Not really. This looks excellent. I just wanted to get the org mode boast dispatched with as soon as possible.

Well, no. That's not what we'd say to use for this (although you could). [Deft]( https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/ ) would be a better comparison/equivalent. Regarding OP, it looks very snappy! I like it. Looks like it leverages `fzf`. Can we swap it out for something else?

Deft can easily be configured to generate org files by default.

Re: Show HN: Notational Velocity for Vim

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Post by jedahan »

RBerenguel wrote: post #12
RaycatRakittra wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, no. That's not what we'd say to use for this (although you could). [Deft]( https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/ ) would be a better comparison/equivalent. Regarding OP, it looks very snappy! I like it. Looks like it leverages `fzf`. Can we swap it out for something else?

Deft was (around 3 or 4 years) my weapon of choice as well when I was using nvAlt. So, it was nvAlt (for times when I was in a random place on my Mac), Deft (for searching or adding from within emacs and 1Writer [1] from iOS, all were fed from a Dropbox folder. Now (since January) though I have moved to use Bear [2] (non-free) on all my devices. Its use case is a bit different, but I like it better overall. Side ques…

skim [1] is a rust alternative that has an interactive mode [2] which makes it easy to drill down to more specific results.

[1] https://github.com/lotabout/skim [2] https://github.com/lotabout/skim#interactive-mode

Re: Show HN: Notational Velocity for Vim

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Post by jsilence »

tomcam wrote: post #6

I just use org mode.* * Not really. This looks excellent. I just wanted to get the org mode boast dispatched with as soon as possible.

Using emacs in a hidden scratch window under the i3 tiling window manager so that it is accessible by hotkey on all desktops. Using a journaling capture template for quickly adding notes. Not perfect, but quick enough.

Re: Show HN: Notational Velocity for Vim

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Post by petepete »

wincent wrote: post #27

I made a JS/Electron based clone of nvALT a while back. Easier to hack on than an Objective-C codebase: https://github.com/wincent/corpus But the node ecosystem has its own problems. I like the idea of doing everything in Vim.

If you're the wincent who made Command-T for Vim, thank you. I used it for years and years with great success.
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