Notational Velocity is a

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for

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used for

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. It allows users to create notes using solely a

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and search them using incremental find. Other features include

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, basic text formatting, tags and

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.. In addition, users can synchronize notes with

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and export to a variety of formats, including

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and

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. It has been recommended along with Simplenote as a solution for taking and syncing notes by both

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and

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. Notational Velocity hasn't seen any development activity since September 2011. In 2013, Elastic Threads (David Halter) and Brett Terpstra created a fork of Notational Velocity with added functionality called nvALT. nvALT was last updated in 2017. In 2019, Brett Terpstra and Fletcher Penney started working on a replacement for nvALT called nvUltra. As of 2023, nvUltra is available as a closed Beta release.

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