I'd steer away from Ulysses as it has a tendency to corrupt plain text 
files created outside of it's system with it's own idiosyncratic version of 
Markdown.

Going back to the needs you describe -

*+ Able to handle plain text files *
*+ Understand Markdown (easy to preview) *
*+ Integration with BBEdit *
*+ Light-weight *
*+ Search *
*+ Index *


I would definitely recommend nvALT as it provides everything you require 
and it can be populated by notes from any plain text editor on your system 
including BBedit. 

I personally use DEVONthink to index my nvAlt folder as this provides me 
with the best of both worlds. A lightweight plain text client (nvALT) and 
best in class sophisticated search capabilities (DEVONthink). The Open Meta 
tagging implemented in nvALT is readable by DEVONthink too which creates 
another useful way to slice and dice your notes database. My only warning 
with using DEVONthink and nvALT in tandem is to ensure that you only 
use DEVONthink to index you're nvAlt folder (don't import them 
into DEVONthink's monolithic database). This keeps things lean. 
Once DEVONthink indexes a folder it will automatically update it's index as 
you add new content.

Other helper applications to consider as part of maintaining a plain text 
notes system are HoudahSpot & Ammonite.

jm

On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 8:49:56 AM UTC+1, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
>
> I write a lot of notes in Markdown format, they are usually highly 
> temporary but I would like to save them for archival purpose ... but I 
> don't want them to "clutter up" my file system. 
>
> I know, it sounds like a contradiction, just humor me :) 
>
> What I want to do is to have some kind of "notebook" where I can dump 
> files like this (and yes, there are numerous notebooks out there). My 
> wish list for this notebook app: 
>
> + Able to handle plain text files 
> + Understand Markdown (easy to preview) 
> + Integration with BBEdit 
> + Light-weight 
> + Search 
> + Index 
>
> Apps that I know of: 
>
> + VoodooPad - this would be my choice if it hadn't been for that there 
> have been no updates in a long time (only one update since the owner 
> change) 
>
> + DEVONthink - doesn't feel light-weight 
>
> + Evernote - no text files, no markdown, no BBEdit 
>
> + Yojimbo - no text files, no markdown, no BBEdit (as far as I can see) 
>
> Does anyone have any other app I should take a look at? 
>

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