Feb 25, 02:30 pm: iSwitch: Notational Velocity

I’m finally getting the Mac toolkit pulled together into something I like a work flow and – I know, I know – I keep threatening to write that up and I will. In the meantime, another tool that has made the cut: Notational Velocity

There are a lot of terrific text tools out there. And many of them work just great. More than great. But they have too many features and require too much thought about organization for me and the way that I work and write. I like to get stuff out of my head as quickly as possible and be confident that I’m going to be able to find it later.

Notational Velocity has turned out to be a terrific tool for helping me get meetings out of my head and into a place where I can, without thinking very hard at all, find the information later.

I have a lot of standing meetings and I like to dump all of those notes into one place – separated into section – and I don’t want to twiddle with it – indenting and outdenting, making headers, rearranging – once it’s there. Notational Velocity makes that easy. A simple “Process” in the note body makes it easy to find the things that haven’t had their todos plucked from them yet. And deleting the “Process” moves them into the done file simply by not having them show up in that search.

So, is it a full featured text editor that allows me to easily move and shape text? Nope. Is it a word processor that allows me to come easily to a finished document? Nope. Is it the best little lightweight note taker around — you bet.

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Marnie Webb  |