Ask HN: Has Anyone Reinvented NvALT as a PWA?

2 pointsnicholascamera6y ago1 comments

I was a long time user of nvALT on my Mac before switching to Windows a couple of years ago.

Aside from Quicksilver and Terminal, nvALT is the app I miss most on Windows. I'm especially attached to two features: 1) the search and compose field are the same field, just hit enter to create a new note with the search query as the title, and 2) the application is designed to index a directory of txt files.

Has anyone reinvented nvALT for the web?

It's a separate topic, but I would also be interested in Windows or Linux apps in this vein. I imagine on Linux the answer is vim or emacs? I haven't yet tried either.

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kjksf6y ago

Someone is trying: https://notational.co/

For what it's worth: I was also heavy nvAlt user and this looked promising but it's half cargo-culting.

They did copy some aspects of nvALT but as a whole it's missing the big picture: nvALT was build to maximize utility.

For whatever strange reason this re-imagining decided to use only 50% of available screen space. Completely missing the spirit of utility.

There might be a business opportunity to build a real re-imagining of nvALT on the web that doesn't just copy few UI ideas but also embodies the spirit and translates it to the web.

I use https://notion.so now.

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