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My spreadsheet to MultiMarkdown table workflow.

My MultiMarkdown writing workflow with LaunchBar and Hazel.

Building a better writing workflow with Notational Velocity, MultiMarkdown, and Simplenote.

The most popular PE posts by far continue to be several that I wrote earlier this year on Markdown, MultiMarkdown, and Notational Velocity and how I use them in my writing workflows: My current choice for Notational Velocity is Brett's nvALT. What you end up with is a text document with your note entries, nicely spaced, ready for review or printing.Update: Most of the wishes in my Notational Velocity wish list have now been granted by Brett Terpstra and others. Because the title is the same, the new note is appended to the same document without any effort on your part. You can just start typing to replace the clipboard with your new note. You will see that the title of your working note is still in the “Title” input. When you are ready to append another note to the same working text document, you invoke the same macro. You can eliminate this step if you trust the system. You can quickly dismiss this without opening the note document, and it’s become part of my muscle memory I include this step because sometimes I want to confirm the notes are correct and in the right order – in essence, my paranoia for perfection. If you have entered a new title for a note, the macro creates a new text document in the central note depository on your computer.Īfter you have entered the first note in your new text document, the macro asks you if you want to open it. The default for the body of the note is the clipboard. What the macro does is take variables for the title of your text document and the first note you want to take in it (it can be nothing).

My solution is a Keyboard Maestro macro which, when invoked via hotkey, allows me to instantly create a new note, and, thereafter, append additional notes to the same working text document, without opening a note-taking app or a text document (e.g., in TextEdit). In short, I don’t want to have to go through the steps of a) creating a new text document to record my notes for a particular document I’m reviewing and b) switching back and forth from the app in which I’m reviewing a document to a text document or app where I’m recording my notes. But, again, even those great apps aren’t conducive to the rapid-fire note taking that I like to do without leaving the app I’m using to read a document. I am also a big fan of note taking apps which populate the apps’ notes from a designated folder or database of plain text notes, like Simplenote or nvAlt (by Brett Terpstra).

Also, the steps for creating a new note and saving it in the right folder are time consuming and just another deterring hassle.

Brett terpstra notational velocity replacement pdf#

However, if I’ve got to switch back and forth between the PDF reader, or whatever app I’m reading a document in, that becomes a maddening hassle quickly. My preference is to type out notes rather than hand write them, as I review the documents. As a lawyer, one of my common tasks is paging through large PDF transcripts and records.

I am a big fan of note taking using plaintext notes. New Note-Append to Existing Note Macro can be downloaded here.