Nvalt dropbox12/17/2023 ![]() ![]() I can’t blab enough about how plain text has saved my life. I used to (like 15 years ago) use MS Word for writing things. Since then I’ve been using plain text and it’s so much better. This year I will write hundreds of thousands of words in plain text files. When friends send me Word documents full of basic information, they better be using advanced features to manage that information or I’ll just roll my geeky eyes and convert the thing to plain text. Windows Paint bitmap file? Sure, send it over.) (Clients can send me anything they want because they’re clients. I usually open a Word document and immediately save it to plain text, just to save me the trouble of having another memory-hogging word processor document open. I already have a ton of junk open in Photoshop so I’ll keep my RAM for that, thanks. Geeky advantages abound, too: I can pick from any one of a million plain text editors to write whatever I need to write. I can write in Markdown, Textile, or ASCIIDoc, using full formatting if I need to. The app is built on top of a time proven. It supports many synchronization options with Git, github, WebDAV, DropBox, and SFTP / SSH. I wrote this blog post with Textile, so when I click “Save,” all the headings, links, etc. Zettel Notes is impressive and free with Markdown support, multiple themes, templates, text snippets, audio recording, inline images, basic drawing, tags, backlinks, and YAML front matter for those that need it. The one I use most is Dokuwiki, followed by Zim, followed by Tomboy). I like the way Dokuwiki is basically a website to which I can control access and create namespaces (special sections) as needed. Zim is more like a structured notebook for the desktop. Zim and Tomboy are both Linux-only apps, last I checked. I can’t use them on my Mac but I use nvAlt on the Mac most of the time anyway. ![]() Scopri come scaricare e installare Dropbox. Speaking of which, Zim and Tomboy files are auto-saved to my Dropbox as collections of plain text files. Dropbox aiuta a creare e condividere file, cartelle e documenti e a collaborare alla loro modifica. Hopefully, this will be of some help until the release of nvUltra arrives.When I want to search them (say, from my Mac), I hop into the terminal and type grep -r “search term”. If it is set to false, then the clipboard’s contents is inserted into the currently selected note at the cursor’s present position without adding any additional whitespace. If it is set to true, then the clipboard’s contents gets added to the end of the currently selected note as a new paragraph, separated from the text above with a blank line in between. The property called append (currently set to true at the top of the script) is one that you can change to your preference. Set the value of its attribute "AXSelectedText" to input Then set input to linefeed & linefeed & input If value of its attribute "AXNumberOfCharacters" > 0 ¬ Tell window "nvALT" to set visible to true Property text area : a reference to text area 1 of scroll area 2 of my windowĪpplication id "" to ¬ Property item : a reference to (row 1 in my table whose selected = true) Property table : a reference to table 1 of scroll area 1 of my window Property window : a reference to window "nvALT" of my process Property process : a reference to application process "nvALT" Move your notes folder (previously /Desktop/notes/) into Dropbox, so you would probably have something like /Dropbox/notes/. Property append : true - false = insert text at cursor position As such, the script will attempt to open it if it isn’t already, but it won’t take the focus away from whatever you’re currently doing. The main window doesn’t need to be in focus or visible to the user, but it does need to be open (even if it’s just left at the back, underneath other windows from other applications). The script below should allow you to either append or insert text into the currently selected note. I am looking for a way, preferably using AppleScript and TextExpander, to paste the clipboard contents to the currently active file in nvALT - without bringing nvALT to the front. ![]()
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