The runaway success of the iPad has provoked significant demand amongst people who want to seamlessly edit cloud-synced files across their iOS devices and their computers. We’ve seen a lot of apps vying to be the iOS part of that solution (such as SimpleNote, Elements, WriteRoom, Edito and a whole lot more), but that’s only part of the puzzle — people need something on the desktop end, too. One popular tool for this is Notational Velocity, an open source program by Zachary Schneirov.
However, many people aren’t entirely satisfied by Notational Velocity’s UI and feature set. Because it is open source, developers are free to take the source code, modify it and distribute their changed version — this is generally called forking in the open source world. We’ve seen a number of Notational Velocity forks over the years (for example, this one by Steven Frank of Panic or this one by “elasticthreads”). Two days ago, a new edition appeared: from TUAW’s own Brett Terpstra comes Notational Velocity ALT (nvALT).
nvALT adds several new features to the baseline Notational Velocity app.
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Notational Velocity ALT adds Markdown support and widescreen view originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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