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Tags in nvALT used to be a string you typed into a text field. They are tokens now, and the search field knows what a tag is. ### Tokens instead of a tag string Click the tags on a note (or hit `⇧`+`⌘`+`T`) and you get a token field. Each tag is its own token. Type a new one, hit the separator (space, comma), and it becomes a token too. The same field is what you get when you tag a single note from the list. nvALT already had tag autocompletion from your existing tags, so that comes forward with these other improvements. ### Tagging more than one note Select multiple notes and open the tag panel (again `⇧`+`⌘`+`T`). You see every tag those notes carry, not just the ones they all share. Tags that are on every selected note stay highlighted. Tags that only some of the notes have show up dimmed, so you can tell a shared tag from a stray one. Apply a dimmed tag by clicking it and it gets added to the notes that were missing it. Take a highlighted tag away and it comes off the whole selection. It’s very close to how Finder tagging works. ### No More OpenMeta This was actually a change in an earlier release, but it bears repeating. nvALT saves tags on notes to tags on the file itself, if you have plain text storage enabled. Previously this used OpenMeta tags, which were awesome in their day (over a decade ago), but not so much today, now that Apple has sherlocked them and Finder offers its own tags. nvALT now uses Finder tags, so you can search by tag from Spotlight1. ### `#tag` in the search field The search field now treats a word that starts with `#` as a tag. `#unix` lists notes whose tags start with `unix`. Case does not matter, and `#uni` is enough to catch `unix` and `unix-admin` while you are still typing. It mixes with a normal search. Every piece has to match. #unix shell #unix #mac `#unix shell` means a tag starting with `unix`, and the note also matches `shell`. `#unix #mac` means both tags. The hash has to sit against the word, so `# unix` is just a hash character plus a search for `unix`. I might evenutally add functionality that will search your notes for `#tags` in the content and apply them as tags to the note, but not yet. ### Web clipping I personally think saving the text of a web page you searched for and which answered a question in a searchable database of your own is just prudent record keeping. Its why I build so many “markdownifier” options (Marky, Marked’s URL import, gather, etc.). I built it into nvALT years ago, but it had since stopped working for most people. So I rebuilt it. Dragging a URL onto the notes list still works. Most browsers do not give you a proxy icon you can drag anymore, so Note → Import URL… opens a field for the address. If the clipboard is a single web address, that address is already filled in. A host with no scheme is fine. nvALT adds `https://`. Turn on Convert imported URLs to Markdown and the page comes in as Markdown. Process with Readability extracts the article first. Hold Option when you choose Import URL, or Option-drag a URL onto the list, and Readability runs for that import even if the preference is off. The new note is selected as soon as it arrives. The search field is set to the note’s title, so a leftover search does not hide it. `nvalt://markdownify` and `nv://markdownify` do the same conversion for a script or a browser extension. Pass the page as `url`, or the HTML itself as `html` (then `url` is only the source link). `title` and `readability` (`1` or `0`) are optional. This scheme always writes Markdown, even when Convert imported URLs to Markdown is off. nvalt://markdownify?url=https://brettterpstra.com nvalt://markdownify?html=...&url=https://brettterpstra.com&readability=1 The converter is built into the app now with my own Swift libraries. It uses the same HTML2Text and Readability setup as Marked, instead of bundled Python scripts. #### Browser Extensions Long ago, nvALT had a browser extension for at least Chrome, and maybe Firefox. They weren’t maintained anymore, so I’ve built new ones. They use the same framework as the Marked extensions, allowing you to markdownify a whole URL (with or without Readability to remove distractions), a current selection on the page, or select one or more blocks using a hover highlight and click (`⌘` or `⇧`+`` for multiple blocks). The Safari extension ships inside the latest version of nvALT. The Chrome/Brave and Firefox/Zen extensions will require approval from the respective stores, and that can take a while. But if you’re curious, I’m putting the code up on GitHub. ### Download This is all in the latest release. Check for Updates, or download below: #### nvALT v3.0.18 (147) Download nvALT v3.0.18 (147) A fork of Notational Velocity with MultiMarkdown preview and advanced Markdown editing capabilities. Other good stuff. Published 06/08/13. Updated 10/31/26. Changelog Donate • More info… 1. Unfortunately I’ve found tagging and Spotlight more and more incompatible with each OS release. But with tools like HoudahSpot, it still very useful, and nvALT makes it automatic, even if you don’t use it for search outside of the app. ↩ Like or share this post Twitter. * * * BrettTerpstra.com is supported by readers like you. Click here if you'd like to help out. Find Brett on Mastodon, Bluesky, GitHub, and everywhere else.

I started a project to create a mod editor for Luanti. It included code highlighting, a glTF model viewer, a texture viewer, and autocompletion (covering the Minetest core, Farming, Mobs Redo, and 3D Armor—the mods most important to me). It also assisted in generating common code snippets, such as those for defining a node or a mob for Mobs Redo. What remained to be done included: Implementing synchronization with files on the disk, enabling mod debugging directly from the editor, and integrating a linter for Lua and Luanti code. However, realizing the scope of the work involved, I put the project on hold. I used, js, neutralinojs, vue, and ace editor. Here is a video showing what I have so far. https://youtu.be/ZHkShc2JhjA Statistics: Posted by saulsm — Sun Oct 25, 2026 05:12 * * *