Setting up Notational Velocity to sync with Elements

A couple of steps are necessary to make Notational Velocity play nice with Second Gear’s text editor for the iPhone and iPad:

Install Elements on the iPhone/iPad and log into your Dropbox account; the application will add a folder called Elements to your Dropbox.
Disable Synchronisation with Simplenote, if you have been using it.
Tell Notational Velocity to store your notes as ’Plain Text Files’
Navigate to the Folder Notational Velocity stores your notes, it’s located at ~/Library/Application Support/Notational Data by default.
Copy all the notes from this folder to the Elements folder in your Dropbox.
Tell Notational Velocity to read your notes from the Elements folder in your Dropbox.

Done. Now you can either re-enable Simplenote synchronisation, should you want to have this service as a backup, or delete you notes from the Simplenote servers, which is what I’ve done.