Feature Request: infinitely associative n-dimensional text-editor

[ghost]

I read this from an interview with you:

1) "In the medium term, I hope to have a means of both maintaining the same set of notes in several places without losing any information and without needing to trust system administrators of so-called “cloud” services, as well as accessing those notes on Linux hosts natively and securely. In the long-term, I’d like to apply that solution to the emerging field of “cloud”-based services in general, which (save for a few like Dropbox) are a massive step backward in terms of user-control, privacy, and OS-integration, from what the Internet used to be 20 years ago."

2) "And more speculatively, I think NV could be succeeded by an application with even greater flexibility, simplicity, and adherence to those metrics that Jef Raskin championed. Such an application would work a bit differently, perhaps constituting a kind of infinitely associative n-dimensional text-editor."

-- Zachary Schneirov 20111230 http://suratlozowick.com/blog/2011/12/notational-velocity-developer-zachary-schneirov-interview/

Are either of these things (sharing without using a standard cloud service and the "infinitely associative n-dimensional text-editor") on your roadmap? I would like to see them both!

I have to use my notes on multiple devices, simultaneously, and so I have been using Simplenote for syncing. (This violates my personal security preferences. However, I have no other way to do this.)

In addition, the syncing to Simplenote is buggy, and my notes get munged or rolled back, which is unacceptable. So, until the sharing is improved, I have just uninstalled NV and gone with Simplenote. (Again, I'm not happy with the security implications. Luckily, it was easy to install gpg and manually deal with notes which need security the most. Luckily, these notes rarely change for me.)

Would love to get a status update!

Thanks!

[bzoooty]

If you're a Mac user, I recommend NV + Notesy for Dropbox app.

http://www.giantyak.com/notesy/index.html

It's simple and fast and all sharing is done via Dropbox. NV on home computer and/or laptop, Notesy on iPhone and/or iPad. I've had none of the problems I used to have with Simplenote.

That said, anything "infinitely associative" sounds great. Really, any improvements at all to NV or nvALT would be exciting. Thanks, in any case, to scrod for creating the best note-taking application of all time.

[ghost]

Thanks, bzoooty.

I'm a mac user now (depends on work requirements, as I only use an android phone at home; no desktop/laptop except what is provided for work), but my phone is Android, which is the other place I need the notes. (I use a YotaPhone 2, and I will never go back to a phone withOUT an eink display on the back! Why have an ebook reader and a phone?)

And, SimpleNotes-Android really rocks. Phone numbers and email addresses in notes are clickable and work, so I don't even use my phone/Mac contacts/addressbooks/etc. Everything is in my notes. Also, you can select text in a web page, and share it to SimpleNotes-Android, and it does a great job of grabbing the text and putting it into a note, along with the URL. So, I don't need Pocket or Instapaper or "ToRead" browser bookmarks. It has a nice dark theme (my whole digital life is in dark or zenburn themes). And, it has the ability to make notes sticky (always on top), which I really like for my contacts and bookmarks. SimpleNotes-Android is basically my PDA inside my phone.

I haven't been able to find an Android app like Notesy, so have stuck with SimpleNote-Android for now. Also, I really don't want to use Dropbox. I don't find that solution any better, from a security standpoint, than using SimpleNote. I really want to get everything out of the cloud (or only upload things in an already-encrypted format).

"Thanks, in any case, to scrod for creating the best note-taking application of all time."

+1 (Despite currently using https://app.simplenote.com/ on my Mac, I actually agree! I have been in love with NV from the day I found it.)