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I used this app for well over a year on my iPad as my go-to mobile note-taking solution. I’ll mention some other great (but paid) alternatives at the end of this post (see Advanced Ninja Weapons below). It is ad-supported but the ads are small and non-obtrusive. It is a minimal writing app with an interface similar to nVAlt’s. On your iOS device I recommend Plaintext which is a simple and free writing app from HogBay Software. You can even access them from within the browser! Notes On the Move

This means your notes follow you everywhere you go. There are several Dropbox enabled apps for iOS that will allow you to access, edit, and create notes from anywhere. Now, every note you create in nvAlt will be automagically synced to your Dropbox account, allowing you to access to your notes from anywhere, at anytime.

Create a new folder in your Dropbox folder called Notational Data and select it.

Above that look for a drop down menu labeled Read notes from folder: and choose Other….

Look for the drop down menu below the words Store and read notes on disk as: and select Plain Text Files.

In order to get the full benefit from the techniques in this article you will need to modify a preference setting in nvAlt by following the steps below: You are provided with 2GB of storage right away that you can use for any kind of storage you can think of. If you don’t have a Dropbox account then crawl out from under your rock, go to and sign up for your free account. I also strongly recommend you memorize the keyboard shortcuts to make you a blazingly fast, notational ninja. There are a bunch of additional stuff to discover (full screen writing mode, different layout capabilities, themes, etc.) so make sure you explore what this app can do. This feature has to be seen to be believed. Head back to your search bar and type a word that exists in one of your notes and you’re instantly provided with a list of notes containing that word. It autosaves your document as you type so you’ll never lose a word.

Open the app, type in a title for a note, hit enter, and start writing. The all-in-one search / create bar is one of the more amazing and most used features. This app is a port of the original and venerable Notational Velocity and is one of those apps that continues to surprise me with both its versatility and its rock solid operation. It is a simple and well built text editor that allows for instant search and note creation plus the ability to use Markdown to render all of your notes in HTML goodness. The Text Editor (your katana)Īrguably, the most important and powerful weapon at your disposal is nvAlt. Each is deadly in its own right together, however, they form a deadly arsenal of portable, ubiquitous, and eternally synced armaments. The following is a list of the weapons you will need to begin your ninja training. If you want to be a note-taking ninja like me then begin your journey by following the instructions below. This system has helped me manage my information flow so much that I thought I would share it with the world. For years I’ve worked to create a perfect, zen-like note-taking and writing setup and I think I’ve finally hit pay dirt.