![]() ![]() I know it’s not a fix for nvALT’s tagging system, but I hope it’s a helpful stopgap. I won’t go into the gory details on that right now, but there are a few easy ways to make it happen. You can schedule that to run daily or weekly using launchd ( Lingon, LaunchControl) or just create a repeating iCal event that launches it. The HTML file will not update automatically you’ll have to run makeTagsList once in a while to keep it up to date. Use the input field at the top to quickly filter the tag list as you type. It opens it in a floating HUD and you can click around to open tag collections and jump to notes in nvALT. Now you can run the other application, “nvTagNavigator,” and it will load that file automatically. Simply put, designate some consistent area of the note body (so that one always knows. When it’s finished, it will open Finder and show you where the resulting file is (in nvALT’s Application Support folder). There are 3 ways to approach tagging in Notational Velocity: 1. Note that it does load jQuery from the Google Ajax API, so you’ll need an Internet connection for the result to function properly. Give it a minute and it will gather all the existing tags and their associated files, and build an index in HTML and JavaScript. Point it to the folder you specified when you set up plain text storage in nvALT. Next, it asks you where your notes folder is. By default it will look for “md,” as well as “txt” and “taskpaper.” If you have multiple extensions in your notes folder, you can include additional ones separated by a space (e.g. If you don’t know what it is, you can find it under Notes preferences in nvALT, also: It will first ask you what your default extension is. Open Preferences in nvALT and go to the Notes tab (press Command-comma to open quickly): Usageįirst, you need to make sure you’re storing your notes as plain text files. ![]() Clicking a tag will reveal all of the notes which have that tag, and clicking a note will open it in nvALT. They allow you to build a tag collection from your existing tags and generate a way to view them in a panel. The pair of apps that you can download below are Automator wrappers. This, combined with the url handler, leads to some interesting possibilities. The nice thing that Zachary built into it is OpenMeta tagging, so if you store your notes as plain text files, you can search tags with Spotlight and any OpenMeta app. There’s no unified place to see all your tags, and tags can’t be searched exclusively. If you’ve used nvALT for a while, you know that tagging in it is, well, broken. ![]()
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