Notational Velocity for Atom

notational-velocity package is renamed to nvatom package due to a fatal bug. For more info, refer migration section.

Notational Velocity is an application that stores and retrieves notes.

This Atom package implements the some key features from this amazing app:

• Modeless operation
• Mouseless interaction
• Incremental Search

Integrated with Atom, we have several advantages:

• Use Atom's Features - Such as Syntax Highlighting and Tree View.
• Use Other Packages - Such as Markdown Preview and Minimap.
• Multi-OS - You can use it in OSX, Linux and Windows.

We do believe Notational Velocity is the precursor of the famous note-taking app Evernote. Advantages over Evernote are:

• Open Source
• No Rich Text - Instead, we strongly recommend to use Markdown.
• Sync Whereever You Want - You can save notes locally, in Dropbox, or in Google Drive.

Settings

To configure your note directory, set nvatom.directory:

• Open your ~/.atom/config.cson file from the menu: Atom > Open Your Config

• Append the following lines:

    'nvatom':
      directory: '/path/to/your/notes'
  

The first line should be indented by one step from * at the top. If you've kept the default indentation of two spaces, the block above should paste in properly.

Double-quotes also work.

Key Bindings

• alt-cmd-l: Toggles the search view.

You can also override cmd-l if you want to keep your muscle memory from Notational Velocity and nvALT. Just edit your keymap (Atom menu -> Open Your Keymap) and add the following lines:

'atom-text-editor':
  'cmd-l': 'unset!'
'atom-workspace':
  'cmd-l': 'nvatom:toggle'

Migration

v0.1.0 under published package name notational-velocity had a fatal bug that sets the default value of its note directory under package directory. Since package directory is overwritten when the user updates notational-velocity package. For more information, refer #25.

To resolve this problem, we renamed our package name to nvatom. Users who have the old notational-velocity need to install nvatom package first, activate the package to automatically migrate the existing notes, and then delete notational-velocity package.

Since keymaps overlap with notational-velocity, follow the menu Packages > nvAtom > Toggle to activate this package.

References

• Notational Velocity
• nvALT
• Markdown
• CommonMark
• Evernote
• Simplenote