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Another update to NV: better readability

Made a dent in my (still growing) to do list. I guess an apology is in order: I was so excited by the initial builds of this fork (getting NV into fullscreen, etc) that I released a little too quick. There were a couple early bugs (already squashed in the last update) and some obvious improvements to build upon and extend. I’m starting to get into those. 

I’m really grateful for the awesome response to this stuff. Lots of ideas and energy pouring in. I’ll do what I can. Please don’t hesitate to email or tweet or post a comment with ideas or complaints. But considered yourself warned: Notational Velocity itself is a beta, and this is a quickly changing fork of a beta.   Luckily (now) NV saves as you type. And the changes I’m making don’t seem to affect stability. 

So here’s what’s new in 6.3 (6 is the version of the official NV build version number):

1. A few visual bugs and annoyances squashed. There was a weird, unnecessary, 10pixel horizontal scrolling issue that is fixed. Switching between layouts no longer produces a jarringly large notes list. Some assorted other itches like that.
2. You can now toggle between the default black text on white background to a “Low Contrast mode” of dark text on light grey background. Easier on the eyes (especially in full screen mode).  cmd-/ or  take a look in the view menu.
3. NV should remember what layout you use between states. The default is still the old vertical layout in windowed mode and the horizontal layout in fullscreen (it gets switched automatically when you go into and out of full screen mode). If you toggle the layout style yourself, NV will remember your choice and keep to it in windowed mode.
4. You can now have the limited text width with margins in windowed mode (just like in full screen mode), where the text won’t get wider than 600pixels; makes for better readability. Open preferences and click the Editing button and select the third checkbox down.  You might have to adjust the window or change what note your in before this takes affect. Eventually I’ll probably add a slider letting you adjust the margins and text width. In the meantime some of these features are apple-style my way or the highway.
5. The optional menubar icon’s drop-down menu now has a proper bookmarks menu, which is key for those who want to go dockless.
6. A small change, is that I accidentally made the keyboard shortcut to toggle layout styles cmd-1, when cmd-#s get automatically assigned to bookmarks. I’ve changed it in this version to cmd-shift-1. You can set your own in OS X’s system prefs.

To see if you have the most update to date version open NV and go to “About Notational Velocity” in the Notational Velocity menu. You should see the following version:    ”Version 2.0 β3et (6.3)”

Download it here.   (I’ll decide whether or not to hook up a specific auto-update channel for this fork or leave it connected to the main build soon. In the meantime its a manual download, unzip, and replace to install).

Keep an eye on the main page for this fork to be sure about the proper version and stay up to date on this project.