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I could almost hear him crying up there in Maine.) (Don’t worry Jesse, I’m not going to throw all that stuff at SimpleText any time soon. 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.

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Why? 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. For the time being the bulk of my other notes are in other separate folders, along with pdfs and some image files.When it’s done or ready for printing it comes out and is filed. When I’m working on a piece of writing I’ll dump it in this folder so it’s available no mater what device I pick up.This is where all my WriteRoom iPhone notes reside. I let Notational Velocity save its data as separate text files, targeting the SimpleText folder.It’s so easy to drop a text clip, link or file into Notational Velocity and then come back to it later to expand, update, revise (or drop) it.I’m using a single data folder in Documents, my SimpleText folder, for current notes – Current is the key concept. So far I am not using the title and tag metadata functions of multimarkdown, but it’s nice to know there there if I ever need it.All my text files, along with my pdfs, and any stray image files I may use for recording events, are named based on my file system infobase.When I need to gussie up some text for presentation, I can do it at the time of printing or publication. I had been using rtf’s, and before that rtfd’s, but the value of rich text, now that I have learned a bit of markdown, is gone.My basic item for note and thought collection is a scrap of text file. Using applications and tools that let me access my data set of files, without taking them over and making my work flow conform to the needs of those applications, has removed a whole set of steps, perhaps most importantly the one between capturing ideas and processing them to finished work. Going minimalist with my note taking tools has been a fantastic boon to my work flow.