Gadgetory

so I love ideas I just love coming up with ideas and in writing about them which is kind of my job but I never really know what I'm gonna get an idea I can be a coffee shop or it could be I know I could be in the park even so I use an app called simple note on my iPhone to capture my ideas and they're all sick to the cloud it's really easy to use and I have you know hundreds of notes but where do I go from there that's where notational velocity comes in notational velocity is an app for the Mac it's really simple it's gonna look it's gonna look too simple to you at first but I think it's very powerful there's just two panes right here a list of text documents and the actual text document that's currently selected and up here there's a search so I want to find that note that I just took so I'm gonna search for Park as you can see it's sorted by date so apparently I use the word Park in paper is the Instagram of drawing which is a feature I just put up on the site but here's Verge at work and I have that note that excellent know that I just took in the park and it says what if I pretend to have an idea in the park and it's like that is a good idea so I could just keep adding editing it right here so mmm this is a good idea this is a lot of my typing as well saying hmm and huh and also you can just use this as a view over here and then open this up and I a writer or the text editor of your choice and continue to edit editing editing oh and as you can see it's sinking right here all this shows up over a notational velocity and it synchronizes with Simplenote automatically it's built into the app really easy rotational velocity by default puts everything in a database that can be actually really encrypted if you want to put some really sensitive information in there I have all of my notes stored as text files in a folder in my Dropbox so it's just a folder called notes on my Dropbox and so that means not only are all of these synchronized to simple note but they're also saved Dropbox but nice thing about the Dropbox is not only is there redundant backup but there's tons of apps that work with Dropbox and so any app that syncs with Dropbox and can edit text files can be part of my awesome note-taking ecosystem and one thing I like to do you know I might start at the phone I might get some serious writing done it on my Mac but sometimes I like to lean back with my ideas Here I am with my iPad and look how comfortable I am as Nilay Patel once said I look rested ly relaxed it's a good time to review what you've done with your notes now that you've ingested them and process them in a corporate setting one of my favorite apps to use is plain text it syncs with Dropbox has a really simple way to search through your notes which is very important ayah writer has an iPad app that's very good but I don't like the way it searches simple note also has an app it's not so pretty but obviously it works very well with syncing with simple note and I do a little bit of light text editing what I really want to read I like to lean back with plain text sometimes put on a little bit of a little bit of chill chill music now if you've been watching this video you know that I use an iPhone I use an iPad and a Mac and that makes me a bad person but I want you to know that you can actually synchronize these notes with all sorts of apps and platforms on Windows there's an app called Reese off notes and it looks a lot like notational velocity it works basically exactly like notational velocity and syncs was simple now there's a app for Android called flick notes that works great there's an app for Symbian there's a web less you can for your BlackBerry PlayBook you can synchronize those simple notes and of course anything that works with Dropbox isn't going to work great now I have a single continuous note-taking experience which flows effortlessly into my actual writing process which is right here an ia writer notational velocity the cloud I'm ready to go