#NOTATIONAL VELOCITY APP REVIEW FREE#
#NOTATIONAL VELOCITY APP REVIEW MAC#

However, if you turn out to be a real note-taking monstrosity, you can sign up for a Premium account and enjoy up to 500MB per month, as well as a few other extras (described here).

If you’re just using Evernote for jotting down thoughts and quick iPhone pictures, then you’ll likely never hit that 40MB ceiling. This is an upload limit per month – not an overall account limit, like on Gmail. There’s not much difference between the iPhone and desktop Evernote clients aside from the rich text editing capabilities available on the web app and desktop clients.įree users see ads on the desktop apps (none on the iPhone) and are limited to 40MB of uploads per month. One of the great things about Evernote is that the same company is designing the mobile and desktop interfaces. This multi-purpose search bar can take a little bit of getting used to, but I think it’s genius.Įvernote and, uhh, Evernote (Mac/PC clients, web app, iPhone app) If there’s already a note with a similar title or keyword within NV, you can just press the down arrow to select it, and press return to edit it. Note creation isn’t tied to any keyboard shortcut or on-screen button: the search bar up top doubles as the title bar for creating a new note, so all you have to do is enter a note name, press the return key, and start writing. NV never prompts you to save anything: changes are saved as you make them, and you can choose to sync with Simplenote every minute to make sure all of your notes are up to date. I’m pretty new to Notational Velocity, but I already love it. I haven’t noticed a “note limit” on any Simplenote account, but plain text notes are actually quite small and easy to sync for the most part, anyway. There is a web client for Simplenote, but it’s actually a little too simple for my tastes, and I’d much rather work with a native client instead. If you manage to reach the 2000 API request limit, you’re doing some very, very serious writing, or some toddler is repeatedly loading your Simplenote app up (and you really shouldn’t have left him alone with your iPhone in the first place). In fact, if I understand the system correctly, you could sync Notational Velocity with Simplenote every minute for a whole day and only use up 1440 API requests – leaving 500+ chances for you to sync your iPhone.

#NOTATIONAL VELOCITY APP REVIEW FREE#

The free Simplenote app does feature one-line Fusion ads and a limit of 2000 API requests per day for non-subscribers, but neither of those limits is unreasonable. The Simplenote + Notational Velocity combo is pretty deadly, and it’s pretty unbelievable that you can enjoy it without paying a cent (the same goes for Evernote, actually). Simplenote and Notational Velocity Combo (Mac client, web app, and iPhone app) The services aren’t exactly alike – Simplenote only takes plain text and Evernote is becoming more of an “everything bucket” – but they’re both fantastic for keeping all of your notes in sync on your desktop (I use a Mac) and your iPhone. Instead of getting into a big old “wonder out loud” post about my ongoing personal Evernote vs Simplenote debate, I figured this might be a decent time to write up on each of these note-taking services in the hopes of helping other users decide which, if any, cloud-based -Note service they might want to use.

#NOTATIONAL VELOCITY APP REVIEW MAC#

This change addresses one of the major downsides to using the Simplenote iPhone app: the lack of a decent native Mac client to sync with. Notational Velocity, the popular open-source notepad for the Mac, has been updated to sync with Simplenote.

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