The largest of these projects is licensed externally by a number of high schools and universities across the U.S. I create courseware, web sites, and client-server systems to support language-learning and the humanities within NU’s College of Arts and Sciences. What kind of development do you do for Northwestern University? I’ve been writing Cocoa programs for almost 10 years and have been using Macs for even longer (when I was ten I implored my parents to purchase the Symantec THINK C compiler for our Mac SE/30, but hit a dead end with the Mac Toolbox APIs). I’m a software developer for and an alumnus of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL (a suburb of Chicago), and a native of the midwest. Let’s start simple: Who are you, besides the mastermind and developer behind Notational Velocity? Interested in finding out more about the developer of one of my most-used apps, I contacted Zach earlier this year and interviewed him over email. But Zachary Schneirov, the man behind it, is less publicized, content to remain in relative obscurity. It is consistently lauded by those who use and write about the Mac and other Apple products, and being open source, its inner workings are no secret. Its utility comes not from a plethora of features but a high level of attention to each, and an adherence to key principles like modelessness and general simplicity. Its range of features does not extend far beyond those core capabilities, but it is the expert and minimal implementation of each that makes it such excellent software. It’s a simple application for taking, storing and searching text notes. This story originally appeared in TechCrunch.For those who use it, Notational Velocity needs no introduction (and for those who don’t, trying it out is the best way to really understand why it has such an ardent following). But I'm glad to see that Resoph isn't the only game in town, and that there's finally a real option on Linux. ![]() I store my notes as text files and sync them with Dropbox so that I can access them on my phone with Epistle, so I'll be sticking with Resoph for now. Currently the app saves everything in a single flat file in the popular format JSON. One big missing feature is the ability to save files locally as a directory full of plain text files. The app itself is not as pretty as NV, but it's not bad looking and it has many of the same features Notational Velocity does. It takes some command line work to install, which is unusual if you use Windows, but it's really easy. "SyncPad for Chrome works very nicely, but the search can be slow." So he wrote his own, and the result is awesome. "ResophNotes under wine works, but is sometimes wonky (I'm an intensive user)," he wrote on Quora. ![]() Botha, a Linux users, wasn't happy with the choices. There's also the Chrome plugin SyncPad.īut developer Charl P. There's the closed source but free-as-in-beer ResophNotes for Windows and a Linux clone called Notetak that hasn't been updated since 2007 and doesn't sync with SimpleNote. Over the years there have been a few attempts to clone Notational Velocity. Now there's an open source clone called nvPY that runs on OSX, Windows and Linux. It's simple, fast and it can sync with either Simplenote or Dropbox, giving you access to all your text notes from virtually any device.īut it's only or OSX. The phrase "life changing" gets thrown around a lot by it devotees. Notational Velocity is a cult favorite open source note taking app for OSX.
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