Run Two Notational Velocities At Once

Question

I've been looking over this FAQ, and nvAlt and Rooswitch and all look pretty interesting, but everything that I've tried forces me to quit one Notational Velocity to open another... EVEN if I use rooSwitch. Is there anyway around this?

Answer 1

I've been able to run Notational Velocity and nvALT at the same time as long as they've used different note folders. But after changing them to use the same folder I get this dialog:

Using multiple forks at the same time is not supported by the developers though. There are issues like #264: Text copied from another fork uses that fork's text styles - Issues - scrod/nv - GitHub. And you don't always know which one will open nv:// URLs or respond to Apple Events.

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Another option (mentioned by Yar in the comments) would be something like:

ditto /Applications/Notational\ Velocity.app /Applications/NV.app
info=/Applications/NV.app/Contents/Resources/Info
defaults write $info CFBundleIdentifier com.superuser.nv

Now the preferences for NV.app will be saved in ~/Library/Preferences/com.superuser.nv.plist. So the note directory can be changed without also changing the one for net.notational.velocity.

open -a NV will work. But in AppleScripts you'll have to use something like activate app "/Applications/NV.app".