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This week, we’re focusing on syncing note-takers. And yes, everyone knows that TinderEverJimboDevonBook can do an awful lot more than Notational Velocity. Lifehacker’s App Directory is a new and growing directory of recommendations for the best applications and tools in a number of given categories.

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Lastly, Springpad is not a competitor here because there is no Mac OS X desktop app, but it’s still a great option and I think there’s a guarantee that a few readers would be unhappy if it weren’t mentioned. And yes, everyone knows that TinderEverJimboDevonBook can do an awful lot more than Notational Velocity. Just store your text in a folder in your Dropbox and you’re good to go. Everyone has an app to store notes and jottings in, and everyone’s got an opinion on them. Thanks to its sync functionalities, Notational Velocity became popular among users who wanted to store notes in Dropbox (from where Notational can fetch files) and sync them back to Simplenote as well.

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The advantage here? Your notes are in your Mac’s dashboard and the interface looks like a notecard, if those things matter to you.ĭropbox can turn pretty much any text editor into a syncing note-taker. Notational Velocity is a free and open source text editor for the Mac that can read text files from anywhere on your computer and syncs with Simplenote. It lists your different notes (much like Notational Velocity), lets you edit them in plain text, and syncs with its $5.99 iPhone and iPad app counterpart. It’s a dashboard widget that basically looks like a notecard. If Notational Velocity is somehow too complex, Notefile might be what you’re looking for.

If want all of those features, you should go with Evernote. While it doesn’t have the speed and simplicity advantages of Notational Velocity, it blows it away with tons of features. If you add pictures with text, Evernote will even use its own optical character recognition (OCR) to make those images searchable. Evernote’s notes are extremely rich, in that you can style them many different ways (even by creating checkable checklists) and add just about any kind of media.

Evernote is another obvious competitor, and is the answer if plain text doesn’t cut it for you.