![]() Notational Velocity and will sync to NV’s sister-app, Notational Acceleration, which is basically NV for the Android platform (and if you have an iOS device, there’s a Simplenote app for that too). On top of that, it can link to a web-based notes app called (also a free service). It has a combined search and enter field reminiscent of Spotlight, and the interface is clean, fast and efficient, requiring minimal keystrokes or trackpad movements. This is a great, free, open-source app built for OS X and it’s got all the simplicity I need. The result was that I found I was keeping notes in several different places and then not knowing where to look for something, hunting around trying to remember which application I’d left some obscure, half-remembered note to myself in. My Android phone has a couple of notes apps, and my mac has, of course, the horribly-lemon yellow Notes.app, Stickies, and even Reminders can be used, not to mention TextEdit. I use Dropbox on both and avoid iCloud for various reasons ( some related to security), but I’ve always found syncing notes a problem. Having an Android phone and Mac computer…not what intended…and syncing between them can be awkward. Change the ‘File Format:’ option at the bottom to ‘Application’, give the app a snappy name (‘findNotes’ ?), then choose your Applications folder as the destination before hitting ‘Save’. ![]() If everything checks out fine, then hit ‘Command-S’ to bring up the ‘Save’ box. If there are no errors, hit ‘Command-R’ to run it. With the Editor open, paste this into the window (note, this is slightly different from the command above, as we have to tell AppleScript how to use the code):ĭo shell script "cd ~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Notes strings NotesV1.storedata | grep body | open -f" It lives in the /Applications/Utilities folder, but you can access it simply by clicking on Spotlight and typing Apples. To do so, we’re going to use the Applescript Editor. However, if for some reason you either want or need to keep using Notes, you might try saving that command above as its own little App that you can keep in the Dock (beats having to dig out or remember the Terminal code all the time). The resulting TextEdit window can be searched or scrolled through for your missing text.ĭue to this problem, a lot of people are giving up using Notes.app altogether and switching to alternatives like Evernote or nvALT. It’s all one line, so copy and paste it as a whole, then hit ‘return’:Ĭd ~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Notes strings NotesV1.storedata | grep body | open -f If you need to recover the text of any note that’s gone missing on your mac, try pasting this into Terminal.app. There appears to be a bug in Apple’s Notes.app in OS X 10.8 that sometimes causes notes to disappear.
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