I replaced nvALT for note taking with this short shell script and fzf

note.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# When called with a name, open a specific note.
# When called without a name, use fzf to interactively search notes.
# (fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)

set -e

cd ~/path/to/my/notes/

export EDITOR=nvim

if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
    "$EDITOR" "$1.md"
    exit
fi

main() {
  previous_file="$1"
  file_to_edit=`select_file $previous_file`

  if [ -n "$file_to_edit" ] ; then
    "$EDITOR" "$file_to_edit"
    main "$file_to_edit"
  fi
}

select_file() {
  given_file="$1"
  fzf --preview="cat {}" --preview-window=right:70%:wrap --query="$given_file"
}

main ""