{"slug": "show-hn-nvenvy-a-notational-velocity-nvalt-reboot-in-swift-oss", "title": "Show HN: NvEnvy – A Notational Velocity (NvAlt) Reboot in Swift. OSS", "summary": "A developer released NvEnvy, an open-source Mac app written in Swift that reboots the Notational Velocity and nvAlt note-taking workflow. The app stores notes as plain-text .md files synced via iCloud, offers quick search, and maintains compatibility with Obsidian. An iOS version is planned, and the developer is accepting pull requests for improvements.", "body_md": "I'm a long time user of Notational Velocity and then nvAlt, and tried nvUltra recently but in the world of Claude it felt like I should own my own——change behaviors as I need them.\n\nRight now it's just a Mac app, but iOS coming in the future for myself, sync with icloud. Notes are saves as .md files and have quick search. You can open the same folder with Obsidian if that's your jam (Obsidian always felt slow and clunky to me, I know folks love it though, so keeping it compatible).\n\nThe app is very simple, just plain text. We don't even render markdown right now, though it's coming.\n\nDefinitely vibe coded. Definitely will need some updates, but share it before it's polished.... PRs appreciated.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325776](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325776)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nvenvy-a-notational-velocity-nvalt-reboot-in-swift-oss", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/kenm47/nvEnvy", "published_at": "2026-05-29 16:48:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 17:18:27.704937+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Notational Velocity", "nvAlt", "nvUltra", "Claude", "Obsidian", "NvEnvy", "Mac", "iOS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nvenvy-a-notational-velocity-nvalt-reboot-in-swift-oss", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nvenvy-a-notational-velocity-nvalt-reboot-in-swift-oss.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nvenvy-a-notational-velocity-nvalt-reboot-in-swift-oss.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nvenvy-a-notational-velocity-nvalt-reboot-in-swift-oss.jsonld"}}