![]() bullet points show as bullet points, headings as headings etc. I like it’s hybrid Markdown/WYSIWYG view with a nice-preview as you type - as a long term Markdown user my fingers know what to type, but the UI preview is nicer - i.e.It’s cheap for what it is - about £14 or so for a year, and the free version gives you loads of features out of the box.Rock-solid sync - it uses iCloud, but it seems to have its own algorithms for doing so and is always really fast.Screenshot of Bear showing the search in action, with hashtag sidebar, post list, and post detail Notable features of Bear I’ve found: Price - Free + £14 per year for premium features Quick Search to find notes - ideally keyboard accessible.Image support (I watch webinars and add screenshots to my notes).Desktop experience - good experience on the desktop.Mobile experience - good experience on the iPhone.Data Portability - ease of getting 1000s of notes into/out of a tool if I switch.Ideal criteria I need in a note-taking/writing app (I’ve never found anything that does all of this well): Markdown export - Ease of getting notes into a form I can publish.Longer-form writing - more in-depth blog posts which might be formed over several days.Short quick blog posts - usually a link and a thought around it.Note-taking - mainly out and about on the iPhone - ease of creating new notes for idea generation. ![]() ![]() They are all excellent tools with loyal large fan bases, so safe to say they are all good in their own ways, but I thought I’d do a quick comparison of these two tools based on my needs: I’m a big fan of Bear for writing notes and outlines for blog posts, but if there’s one thing I like more than procrastinating about writing on my blog, it’s procrastinating while thinking about writing tools! ![]()
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