nvALT review: Makes writing and finding plain-text notes simple
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There are roughly a jillion text editors available for OS X; it takes a special one to stand out from the crowd. Simply put, nvALT is special.
nvALT isn’t just a general-purpose plain-text editor like TextEdit or BBEdit. Sure, you can use it as you would one of those other apps, to compose long essays or assemble big chunks of code. But where it really shines is as a catch-all repository for all kinds of random bits of information: to-do items; lists; phone logs; thoughts that occur to you as you’re walking to work; and pretty much anything else that can be written down in plain text.
That’s because nvALT doesn’t just record your words; it’s specifically designed to make searching for and organizing your notes super-fast and easy.
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