![]() I dream about targeting my whole document folder with NV one day and having access to all my text files in that cool easy to sort and edit way. I also find value in wandering through my folders. My data set is very large and diverse, and composed of items other than text. I don’t know if that will ever work for me just that way. ![]() Notational Velocity was designed to act as a comprehensive repository of note data.I rummage through them, add to them, edit, combine, synthesize, and then commit them to one of the other folders when they are either finished or I become bored with them. The best metaphor I can come up with is a pile of papers on a desk, vs the ones in a filing cabinet. SimpleText and Notational Velocity are becoming a working repository of my unfinished ideas and notes.That lets me do cross folder searches either chronologically (What was I doing holistically in January of 2009?) or by type (List all unfinished writing, or all submitted work) Almost all my larger writing works are in Scrivener files. All items in these document-root folders are coded in the infosystem pattern. I also have a folder for Writing, Commerce, Administration, and Organization.These sub-folders act as a single topic tags leting me find like material over and beyond the file name tagging I do in the infobase system. I have a folder called Topics, with a few dozen sub-folders, holding article pdfs, txt files, remnant Office documents, and the old rtf/d’s I’m too lazy to convert to text. ![]() #Taskpaper themes freeWhy? I don’t want to overtax the free service Jesse is providing, and it gets hard to find current items in WriteRoom iPhone without more sorting options - ascending vs descending - but slowly, as I feel more confident, files are collecting in Simpletext.
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