Worshippers took buses or walked to Mina, seven kilometres (four miles) from Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, where they circled the imposing black Kaaba at the start of the rituals on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims journeyed from Saudi Arabia's Mecca to a white-tented city in Mina on Thursday as they neared the highlight of the biggest hajj ritual since the coronavirus pandemic began. I ended up moving my Simplenote data out of Dropbox so I could sync via Simplenote, because I wanted to be able to use the Simplenote iPhone client. Trying to sync to both will lead to problems (trust me on this one, I found out the hard way). Update: It is important to note that if you are syncing Notational Velocity, you should choose either Dropbox or Simplenote, not both. It has brought together several bits of technology that I love into a big hot fudge sundae with cookie dough ice cream combination of nerdy yumminess. If you love text files, and especially if you're already using Simplenote, checkout Notational Velocity. Of course you don't have to use Dropbox, or Simplenote, to use and enjoy Notational Velocity. Steven Frank from Panic forked his own version of Notational Velocity that includes a third pane to display the note in Markdown format.
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Notational Velocity is open source, and hosted on GitHub which means that anyone can access the source code and modify it for their own use. Notational Velocity changed the game, dramatically and quickly. An app that used to sit in my dock and auto-launch when I logged in now sits empty. While it is possible to use Yojimbo and Simplenote together, I haven't done it, so I'm not sure how well it works.Īfter a few days of using Notational Velocity, I exported my entire Yojimbo database to a folder in my Dropbox. Web pages, which I used to store in Yojimbo, I now put into Instapaper. My new habit involves storing individual files in Dropbox: images in ~/Dropbox/Photos, PDFs in their own folders, and so on. Syncing Yojimbo via Dropbox is dangerous because it stores all the information in one large database. Mac/Mobile Me, I fell out of the habit of using Yojimbo. However, during the many, many months when I couldn't get Yojimbo to sync over. Notational Velocity has basic tagging features, but it doesn't store images or PDFs or web pages. It would be unfair and inaccurate to call Notational Velocity a replacement for Yojimbo. Notational Velocity will search incrementally as you type in the main box, and if it doesn't find a matching note, it will let you create one.
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You can edit them on Windows or Linux machines synced to your Dropbox. Once you have set Notational Velocity to store your notes in individual files, you can edit them with any text editor, or within Notational Velocity itself. Thinking about getting an iPad? That's only going to make this setup even sweeter. Edit a note anywhere, and the changes are synced nearly instantly and appear everywhere. Notes on my iPhone, my iMac and my MacBook Pro. That's what Notational Velocity has achieved. Imagine if Apple had created an over-the-air method of syncing Notes and it all Just Worked. It also easily syncs via Dropbox if you follow the important configuration notes here. Notational Velocity does save notes, either in ASCII, RTF, or HTML, but with the latest version, Notational Velocity syncs with Simplenote or WriteRoom for iPhone. It took me a minute to understand why I'd want Notational Velocity, it because it sounded like yet another "everything box" like Yojimbo, which I was already using. The app has been around for awhile ( we talked about it five years ago!) but some new features and new technologies make it well worth another look. It changed how I use my iMac, MacBookPro, and iPhone, bringing them all together in a very cool way. I had heard about Notational Velocity when Merlin Mann posted about it on 43Folders. The phrase "game changer" is no doubt cliché and overused, but every now and again it just fits.