Comment by jen729w

6 months ago

I still lament the loss of nvALT. The GOAT.

Mine is still coughing along on Ventura. I'm more upset about the one-decade-in-beta, almost-certain-never-to-be-released, quasi-vaporware nvULTRA.

I used to love nvALT. Want to check out https://hashy.ink. It's an open source markdown editor inspired by nvALT. Still rough around the edges, but it's coming together.

  • Lost me in the first sentence with the AI chat.

    • It's optional btw, it's bring your own key. I'm debating taking it out too as I find if I wanna use AI with it, I usually just open claude code in the folder in the terminal..

You can just use neovim with fzf and that pretty much replicates nvALT.

  • I am familiar with nvim and fzf but not nvALT. Could you give me a brief explanation of the workflow here? Is fzf just used to jump between separate note files or what? Personally I have a general notes.txt as well as more specific ones like what I order at a specific restaurant or what I'm working on in a game. I don't use fzf with nvim, moreso with shell scripts.

    • nvALT is a mac app (developed by brett terpestra) that would store notes in a directory (txt files) and you would type in a few words to search/find the file you wanted to edit, and if the search string didn’t exist, hit enter to create a new one (or cmd+N)

      it was rather simple, and is reminisce of using fzf with telescope (<leader>fg for file grep, or <leader>ff for file search by filename). type in a few letters, select your match and hit enter to edit.