
It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. Brett Terpstra explains why I may be wrong about tagging in the the last MPU episode. NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes. You could create tags in the notes with a symbol, like “ Also, Simplenote now has a tagging system but tagging has always struck me as more fidgety than useful. Again, it is a good idea but one I fortunately don’t need.Īlso absent from my system is tags. Likewise, I don’t use Merlin’s ingenious Q trick because for me, things are always changing and I don’t like going back to rename. For instance if I talk to someone, I may note it with a date string in a matter note. I do frequently drop date strings in notes, however. Perhaps it has something to do with the way I use Notational Velocity. Ben Brooks makes a good case for using dates in Notational Velocity notes but I’ve never found a need for it. ms:post – Bill Gates’ new iPad), keep the spacing uniform so when you organize alphabetically, things work out.Ī couple of things I don’t do in the names are dates and Merlin’s Q trick.
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So how do I name files? I preface the note name with some pre-designed codes (which I hesitate to call “tags”). Chrome OSNotational Velocity Chrome OS Blackberry 10 Mac Software as a Service (SaaS) Safari Apple Watch Vim Chrome fzf Windows Phone iPad Android Wear Opera Firefox OS Windows S Blockstack Linux iPhone Android Tablet Gmail Firefox Self-Hosted Web Windows BSD Internet Explorer Chrome OS Android Kindle Fire.


In last weekend’s episode of the Mac Power Users, I spoke at some length about how I name files in Notational Velocity.
