#Notational velocity data files free#

All items in these document-root folders are coded in the infosystem pattern. I also have a folder for Writing, Commerce, Administration, and Organization.These sub-folders act as a single topic tags leting me find like material over and beyond the file name tagging I do in the infobase system. I have a folder called Topics, with a few dozen sub-folders, holding article pdfs, txt files, remnant Office documents, and the old rtf/d’s I’m too lazy to convert to text.

#Notational velocity data files free#

Why? I don’t want to overtax the free service Jesse is providing, and it gets hard to find current items in WriteRoom iPhone without more sorting options - ascending vs descending - but slowly, as I feel more confident, files are collecting in Simpletext. For the time being the bulk of my other notes are in other separate folders, along with pdfs and some image files.When it’s done or ready for printing it comes out and is filed. When I’m working on a piece of writing I’ll dump it in this folder so it’s available no mater what device I pick up.This is where all my WriteRoom iPhone notes reside. I let Notational Velocity save its data as separate text files, targeting the SimpleText folder.It’s so easy to drop a text clip, link or file into Notational Velocity and then come back to it later to expand, update, revise (or drop) it.I’m using a single data folder in Documents, my SimpleText folder, for current notes – Current is the key concept. So far I am not using the title and tag metadata functions of multimarkdown, but it’s nice to know there there if I ever need it.All my text files, along with my pdfs, and any stray image files I may use for recording events, are named based on my file system infobase.When I need to gussie up some text for presentation, I can do it at the time of printing or publication. I had been using rtf’s, and before that rtfd’s, but the value of rich text, now that I have learned a bit of markdown, is gone.My basic item for note and thought collection is a scrap of text file. Using applications and tools that let me access my data set of files, without taking them over and making my work flow conform to the needs of those applications, has removed a whole set of steps, perhaps most importantly the one between capturing ideas and processing them to finished work. Going minimalist with my note taking tools has been a fantastic boon to my work flow.