Comments on: Notational Velocity and Simplenote Part Two: Making a good thing better

By: xsa

xsa — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:50:34 +0000

you can add a shortcut in notational velocity that wil instantly reveal and hide the window. You don’t need to go through all the complicated maneuvers you’re describing. You don’t ever need to see the icon. Justnhighlight the text you want to copy, press the shortcut keys–I use command– shift-backslash– drop off the text, press the shortcut keys again, and you’re back in your workflow. I really hope NV doesn’t implement the changes you suggest–it would ruin a lean, mean, elegant machine.

By: Tod M.

Tod M. — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:00:52 +0000

I LOVE Simplenote as well. Have the iPad/iPhone app. Such a simple, but fantastic idea.

I use Justnotes rather than NV. I found NV to be too plain looking; Justnotes has a nicer UI, at least imho.

Also, Justnotes operates as a menubar app. I’m pretty sure NV is a dock icon. I really don’t like dock icons for tiny apps that do small things in which you NEVER click on the app icon in the doc. Like Quicksilver — it really shouldn’t have a doc app.

By: Toenails

Toenails — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:32:09 +0000

It sounds like your criticisms stem from the behavior of the Mac OS X app-switcher. While you mentioned that you don’t want to change the way you switch applications, doing so will be the only true way to overcome these problems. Which is to say, you should probably be using Notational Velocity’s activation keystroke (found in Preferences) to bring it forward in a single “gesture”.

Even with your preferred, most recognizable icon, you’ll still have to press Command-Tab an unknown number of times to activate the app, which is what Raskin actually meant by “habituation”.