brett terpstra notational velocity replacement

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It’s not perfect, but I think it will improve with time, and more will come. MS: That’s great to hear and, personally, I can’t wait to see these changes being implemented in the main version of Notational – the developer himself hinted at some very innovative Markdown functionalities a while ago, so I’m curious.Įver thought about a possible Notational Velocity for iOS? Or do you think there’s no need for a Notational-type of app with all these Dropbox-based text editors out there?īT: There’s an app called Speed Notes that captures the essence of Notational Velocity really well. Once we’ve accomplished the initial merge, we want to keep nvALT going as a bleeding edge development version and merge stable changes back to the trunk.

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It’s been slow going even getting this next version of nvALT out (most of what free time I find goes to Marked), but David has put a lot of Markdown-flavored blood, sweat and tears into this version. Zachary has invited David (Elastic Threads) and I to merge our changes into the main Notational Velocity application. I’ve made a concerted effort to keep the original code’s data handling intact, and all credit for the brilliance and stability of the system go to Zachary. It was an interesting experience having it take off and suddenly having so many people’s important data at risk if I made any mistakes. It started as something I did one afternoon just to see if it would work. How’s the NV community been responsive to nvALT so far?īT: The response to nvALT has been surprisingly enthusiastic. Did you guys ever get in touch with Zachary Schneirov, the developer behind NV? Back in March he said he was looking into consolidating some functionalities from the various forks of Notational Velocity into the app. MS: Indeed nvALT has been gaining a lot of popularity especially in the last few months, probably because it also introduced features that the main version of Notational Velocity lacked. Most of what I do is pure experimentation, coding for the joy of problem solving.

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I’m a bit of a plain text nerd, and a lot of my work focuses on working with and manipulating plain text, as well as keeping data portable and application agnostic. I also sell an app in the Mac App store called Marked a MultiMarkdown previewer that watches your text file for changes and updates the preview every time you save it. I’m the original author (now working with Elastic Threads) of a Notational Velocity fork called nvALT, which seems to be what I’m best known for. MacStories: Hey Brett! Could you introduce yourself to the readers who haven’t heard about you or haven’t tried any of your apps & scripts before? When he’s not making awesome things or writing at his personal blog, Brett tweets as interview below was conducted between January 17 and July 4, 2012.

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In our ongoing series of interviews with developers and creators in the Apple community, I recently had the chance to talk with Brett Terpstra, developer of Marked, Senior Developer at AOL Tech, TUAW blogger, and “mad scientist” with a knack for finding great solutions through code.

Brett terpstra notational velocity replacement