Workarounds you probably already know about:

+ [QuickCursor](http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/) (edit any text box in your preferred editor, including WriteRoom)

+ [MegaZoomer](http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html) (zooms any window to full screen with command-return)

Opening Evernote on my MacBook Air. 26 Seconds.
Opening Notational Velocity. Less than half a second.

Once NV is open, the interface has no buttons – it’s DESIGNED to be 100% keyboard driven.

For me, NV is like a RAM Buffer. Evernote is like a DVD Burner. They both rock, but they rock in different ways.

“NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes.
It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.”

I use Evernote (replaced Yojimbo for me) and I’ll continue to use Evernote. But I use NV for instant writing and instant recall. For me, Evernote is for complex things that are often visual, NV is a pure text buffer that replaces the mess of saved TextEdit “notes” on my desktop.

I use Evernote and NV. For Web Clipping, Research, Record Keeping and even english language OCR, Evernote is wonderful. I use Evernote daily. However, Evernote is slow to load, is primarily mouse drive, and eats too much RAM on my MacBook Air to keep running continuously. Hey, it’s called “Notational Velocity”.

I used NV continuously from 2003 – 2007, but without a Universal Binary, using it on my MacBook Air was just self defeating, and I’m extremely happy to see that an Intel version is now available. Perhaps better news, NV now supports some Rich Text commands.

Combined with DropBox and the RTF storage mechanism, you can have access to your NV notes synched on all computers, and even accessible on your iPhone.

Now to find my backed up Notational Velocity Database!

Feature Idea – what about hitting ALT+ENTER and jumping into a full screen mode on the current note. Basically combining Write Room with NV.

Download the application and then load 2000 notes into it. What–you can’t even imagine having that many notes? Then I guess your needs can be satisfied by using toy programs.

Or maybe you can’t imagine creating that many notes with an interface as unwieldy as Evernote’s. It’s perfectly conceivable with Notational Velocity.

Option to maintain/synchronize notes as text files for Spotlight and/or text editor access – or just use Notes and a text editor.

More robust and space-efficient database with encrypted, compressed write-ahead logging – whatever that means as a number two enhancement!

- On-demand mounting of disk images and servers while loading the database – how big are your notes?

- Optional AES encryption with variable-strength key derivation – oh good AES encryption, eh?

- Styled text editor supports font-independent formatting, an alternative to “rich text” – does font independant formatting mean it doesn’t support fonts? I guess that’s an alternative to rich text!

- Partial word-by-word or full-phrase searching – see Spotlight, Evernote etc.

- Highlighting of found words – oooooh!

- Multiple-note selections and sorting by different criteria – this actually might have been useful – they should have stuck this in the top.

- Support for input methods and unicode searching – OK

- Basic support for editing structured text and code – how basic? what about BBEDIT?

- Per-note undo histories – OK that is actually genuinely something that would make me give it a go.

Importing of additional file types, including the Mac OS X Stickies database – that is the second thing – I’m gonna give it a go!!
“Paste clipboard as new note” command grabs the current web context – meh copy and paste.

URL and email address recognition – Notes does this.

This might actually be a good application, and I DO like neat, concise apps, but the list was ordered completely wrongly for me to be interested. If I hadn’t gone and done this wee tirade, I probabaly wouldn’t have read as far as impoorting of file types and per note undo histories.

Apologies for the moad – it’s been a tough day and I’ve been lookign at someone / thing to have a swing at.

TSR.