Notational Velocity 1.1.1 review

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Notational Velocity is an application that stores and retrieves notes.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 1K
Developer: Zach SW
Price: $0.00
Updated: 20 Feb 2006
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Notational Velocity is an application that stores and retrieves notes.
While there are many, many note-taking programs for Mac OS X,
Notational Velocity is the only one that actually operates in a useful manner.

The rationale behind this statement consists not of vague terms like "intuitive", "powerful", and "full-featured", but rather is based on the program's employment of well regarded and recognized practices in user interface design.

Notational Velocity's advantages are as follows:
• The chief domain of the program (editing and adding notes) is fundamentally modeless.
• The program features an instantaneous incremental search. From a human interaction standpoint, incremental searching is superior to the delimited searching found in most software today.
• All primary functions are fully accessible from the keyboard; the user need never lay hands on a pointing device. As the keyboard is the source of all input when composing a note, the time saved from not having to move one's hand between the keyboard and the mouse during other interactions is significant.

Here are some key features of "Notational Velocity":
The same area is used for both searching for existing notes and entering the descriptions of new notes. As one types the description of a new note, related notes immediately appear below, providing one the chance to file information into an existing note instead of a new one. Likewise, if a search for some piece of information turns up negative, one need simply press return to create a new note with the appropriate description.
In conformance to the duality of purpose of the search/description area, typing the beginning of the description of an existing note will trigger the "auto-completion" of that description. Accordingly, selecting an existing note will place that note's description in the search/description area, and deselecting the note will restore the previously typed text.
Notational Velocity has no explicit "save" command; all modifications to a note take effect immediately.
There is more than one way of getting information into Notational Velocity; with alternatives from system-wide services to drag-and-drop in the Dock, one's workflow need never be impeded.
Finally, while Notational Velocity secures its database via the 128-bit International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA), it provides the option of securing one's password in the Mac OS Keychain, thereby relieving the user from entering it at every application launch.
Written in Cocoa with Objective-C and POSIX C.

What's New:
Updated for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3
Other trivial improvements.

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