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.
