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When it boils down to it, I think Macs are popular on college campuses because they've got a proven track record of being reliable and unobtrusive, which is important when you're actually trying to sit down and get stuff done. It is just easier to be productive on a Mac, and that's very valuable when it comes to professional or academic pursuits. My school highly recommends that we purchase a new Macbook Pro as a freshman, with the assurance that it will last four years with comparatively little upkeep.

> Do macs have better note taking programs?

Depends on what your criteria is, but in my experience, Macs have some very solid productivity tools. I use Notational Velocity, but there are many great options. Evernote is one that a lot of people use, and you might consider looking into it for its cross-platform support(it's free and it works on Windows, OS X, iPhone, Android, etc.)

> OSX from what I've played with at the apple store looks primitive

OS X is every bit as advanced as any other modern operating system; don't let it fool you. The UI is designed to present the user with what is needed and nothing more. It is a mistake to assume that, because it is a simpler interface, it is inherently less powerful.

> I've gone 20 years with windows should I just stay?

I came from a DOS/Windows upbringing myself, and I worked in IT for several years. I switched to Mac a couple of years ago, and I've never looked back. Actually, that's not true — I've been forced to look back from time to time, and I've really come to hate Windows, after becoming accustomed to the intuitiveness, reliability and sleekness of OS X.

But, buying a Mac doesn't have to mean giving up Windows. In fact, Windows runs great on Macs. Believe it or not, there are even people who use Macs as predominantly Windows-based machines.

I have one long-lived instance per project and many short-lived instances for quick edits.

Of note:

• I rarely use windows and tab pages even more rarely.
• Buffer count is irrelevant: 10 or 300, it makes no difference.
• I don't use tmux as I have no need for it.
• I don't use Vim for taking/managing/consulting notes as there are much better tools for that.

Eh, not to solve all of my problems with Vim, but I've found Notional Velocity for OSX to be pretty awesome for simple note taking and building a simple searchable DB http://notational.net/

Vim's modes are great for editing, but for just writing and searching text, building a simple DB, it doesn't seem too awesome without plugins. Emacs has org-mode and I've seen a few org-mode plugins for vim, a few wiki-style plugins for vim, but none seem to fit naturally for me.

Notational Velocity (or the Alt version with some enhancements) for the Macs, and Simplenote for the iPhones.

Create an account for the both of you to use on Simplenote, and point your Simplenote iPhone clients and Notational Velocity instances to that account.

I feel like I paid something for Simplenote but it looks to be free now, so YMMV.

I prefer Notational Velocity. I think it's a good choice if you don't set out to make perfectly written notes in a variety of categories, I just write notes whenever I need to and quickly want to dump them somewhere. NV is super spartan, but works really well for just writing stuff down fast with minimal markup and easy links to other notes.

Notational Velocity - Free text only writing tool - sync with Dropbox (or Simplenote) and use PlainText (or Simplenote) on your iOS device and you'll always have the latest version of your text on your devices.

I'm a big fan of Drafts, but on OS X I use nvALT, a fork of Notational Velocity.

It's not as powerful as Drafts in terms of sharing text I don't think, but I find it really quick for both writing a quick plain text note, as well as searching existing notes. I like the way that one keyboard shortcut (cmd+L) is used for both searching and creating.

I have it auto-save notes to Dropbox, and when on iOS I get Drafts to post notes to Dropbox as well, so the two apps work well together, for me anyway.

Notational Velocity. It's just a plain text editor, but it's great for taking notes and searching for them later. It also syncs with Simplenote, so you can sync notes between your PC and smartphone or whatever.

Oh yes. I've been trying for a decade to figure out how to organize and follow up on all my lists. A close INFJ friend of mine pointed me toward Notational Velocity. My grand plan is to disgorge the knowledge stored in my head about how to do my job, various projects, recipes, etc. into this system. We'll see whether it actually works.

You're using Windows, but for people who came here and use MacOSX I love NV-Alt which is a fork and enhancement of Notational Velocity. It's a markdown-capable instantly-indexed cut&paste friendly notepad. I use it for storing little tips and tricks because it's so intuitively searchable and I simply put the saved files in my dropbox folder, so it's sync'd everywhere and the saved files play perfectly with Simplenote, IAWriter, Plaintext, etc etc.

Notational Velocity - cloud-syncable basic notes all built around search and speed use

Namely - An application launcher like quicksilver, but less features

Mars Edit: It's a desktop blog editing application that syncs up with most major blogging services

Notational Velocity: It's a note taking application/repository that allows one to take simple text notes and search through those notes via search or by tags. Very nifty and useful, especially considering that you can sync it to Simple Note or Dropbox. So you can have your notes on your iOS device as well.

I like ResophNotes better when using a pc and when using a mac Notational Velocity works exactly the same.

I used both Resoph and Cinta for a while, and felt Resoph more responsive. I also liked that Resoph can either sync with simplenote or save the notes as txt to sync with Dropbox. What made me stay with ResophNotes was whenever I saved snippets of code in a note it respected the tabs and spaces correctly.

The tagging feature in Cinta is better, and the UI looks great.

I prefer Cinta, Resoph and Notational to OneNote or Evernote cause they are lightweight and because their search and tagging features speed things up a lot (even with more than 3000 notes).

definitely explored that avenue - but the app hasn't been supported in many years and there's no contact info on their official website http://notational.net, or ANYWHERE on the internet/forums that i can find.

if someone is able to dig up the contact info, please let me know.

Very cool idea and in fact it is quite similar to the note-taking system that I have developed using Atom and certain plug-ins for it. Certain suggestions for features that you could consider adding in the future which would, imo, make it the perfect note taking solution.

1. Look up Notational Velocity ^1 and consider adding implementing its feature in your software.
2. Develop certain Markdown macros [not sure if that is the right word] eg. one that creates a Table of Contents for your note file

Also, you can get further feedback for your product if you post here. ^2

Well it can't open plain text documents (I use Notational Velocity to sync & manage my notes), so I would have to open the text file in anoter application, copy the contents, paste into Outlinely & after finishing editing export as Markdown to save.

All that hassle instead of just pressing a hotkey to open the file in an editor that supports txt.

Im a big fan of nvalt, which is a newer incarnation of notational velocity. Not sure what features you need/want out of an app, but this ones worked for me for years.

I just read someone extolling the virtues of Notational Velocity, and am really tempted to switch over. It looks great, super-streamlined. Here's the writeup and here's their website.

In addition to my pen and paper, I use Notational Velocity on desktop and Simplenote on mobile, sync everything through Simplenote and I got all my notes synced throughout my phone, iPad, and two desktops. Only work/project notes though.

Not sure if there's any perfect solution to this scenario that you're describing. I know that Notational Velocity/NvAlt can be shown and hidden by just setting a key. But it won't be contexually aware of which programs you're working in at the moment.

If you need an overview of shortcuts you should try CheatSheet.app

If you're on a Mac, Notational Velocity is pretty good for quick note-taking and finding.

You basically just give a "note" a quick title, and then type whatever the contents are. And then when you want to find/search the notes again, you can search via the titles, the note contents, etc. It's pretty minimal but also makes it very easy to find/filter your notes when you're trying to recall them. Give it a shot!

I started using Notational Velocity which syncs with SimpleNote for notes and things. I like it. I tried google tasks, but wasn't a fan. I'm currently using OmniFocus, but am playing around with Clear a little bit.

I've not done this but I read that Notational Velocity will import all your stickies. This may be a solution for you. I don't know about exporting them afterwards but maybe you won't need to.

I love Notational Velocity for notes.

It's Mac-only, but can sync with Dropbox and Simplenote and the notes are just plain text files. I don't know of any programs similar to Notational Velocity on Windows or Linux, but you can use the Simplenote website when your on those other platforms.

For Mac users who are heavy terminal users, check out 'Visor'. It gives you a customizable hot-key specified terminal window. It functions exactly like the 'console' in most games, except it's terminal!

I have it set up so I can just hit ctrl+~ and the terminal pops down (or up) wherever I've set it. Supports tabbing, spaces, and transparency.

Visor

** Requires SIMBL, see the above page for instructions.

Can't recommend this enough, I hate tabbing between windows to get to terminal.

Additionally I really like Notational Velocity. Perfect for small text snippets, INCREDIBLY fast and powerful search algorithm. You can search 1-2 characters in the middle of a massive string damn near instantaneously.

My current system is .txt files in dropbox, synced to a local folder twice daily. I used to use Evernote, but this is so much better in ways... (It may also help that I use Ubuntu mostly in the command line, so I edit my notes with vi. But you can still try it if that doesn't suit you.)

I'm also a big user of Notational Velocity on the mac (http://notational.net/) and Simple Note on iDevices: (http://simplenoteapp.com/)

Hope it helps.

Actually it's been quite a bit behind Notational Velocity for almost a month:

http://notational.net/releasenotes/release2/#b4

In fact, NValt currently isn't compatible with Notational Velocity at all due to so many missing features. And since nearly all the changes in NValt are cosmetic, there's really no point to it now.