{"repo":"alok/notational-fzf-vim","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/alok/notational-fzf-vim","clone":"git clone https://github.com/alok/notational-fzf-vim.git","description":"Notational velocity for vim.","language":"Vim Script","stars":1128,"topics":["vim","vim-plugin","neovim","nvalt","fzf","notational-velocity","notes","note-taking","search","plain-text"],"license":null,"category":"productivity","readme_excerpt":"Notational FZF Loosen the mental blockages to recording information. Scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. --- Notational Velocity home page Notational Velocity is a note-taking app where searching for a note and creating one are the same operation. You search for a query, and if no note matches, it creates a new note with that query as the title. Usage See the following GIF or watch this asciinema: Installation Changes Read CHANGELOG.md . Description Vim is great for writing. But it isn't optimized for note-taking, where you often create lots of little notes and frequently change larger notes in a separate directory from the one you're working in. For years I used nvALT and whenever I had to do serious editing, I would open the file in Vim. But some things about nvALT bugged me. - It's not meant for large text files, and opening them will cause it to lag a lot . - I can't use splits - I do most of my work in Vim, so why have another window open, wasting precious screen space with its inferior editing capabilities. Sorry Brett, but nvALT can't match Vim's editing speed. - I also disagree with some parts of Notational Velocity's philosophy. Plugins like vim-pad didn't do it for me either, because: - I don't want to archive my notes. I should be able to just search for them. - I don't want to use the first line as the title since I have notes with duplicated titles in different directories, like README.md . - I just want to be able to search a set o","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/alok","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/alok/notational-fzf-vim/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}