This is what makes me worried a lot too. My assumption is that development of the web version will create lot of constrains on the development capacity of the team. And then they will have to sync all the features to be available on all environments (not just mac and iOS).
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Another interesting project that popped up recently is https://inkdrop.app
The one I’m watching is Spaces as they seem to be positioning themselves to directly compete with Bear.
I’m probably leaving Bear for the same reason I left Things; glacial development. I get it people don’t want huge creep but you’re not even getting refinements & enhancements to the existing feature set.
Unless I’ve misunderstood what you’re saying, you can return to previous note as follows: - iOS: https://bear.app/faq/Quickly%20navigate%20notes%20on%20iOS/#quickly-navigate-notes-on-ios - Mac: option command back-arrow
Today shows you the notes that you have created/edited today. You won't be able to move any notes out from that view. Notes will disappear from that view/list when a new day comes. Think of it as a smart folder that displays notes you edited today.
Here's some explanation from Bear's official website.
One of Bear's great features is that the Bear team doesn't have access to—in any way, shape, or form—your data. Evernote has server-side OCR, yes. They also fucked a lot of people off when they tried to change their privacy policy to allow their employees to read your notes.
> You can search for a #tag
excluding its nested tags with !#tags
So in this case, searching !#root
is what you need.
This page is a useful reference!
TL;DR We don't know anything about you and we are very happy with this.
Yes, the privacy badge is self-reported however, developers stating something not true my face consequences such as the removal of the app from the store.
Concerning the subscriptions, the app store API allows us to verify the purchases without knowing the AppleID or any other sensitive user data. To sync the license cross-platform we use Apple's CloudKit.
CloudKit offers a private and public "space". The public space is meant to be readable by developers and any user within the app while the private part is accessible only by the user in posses of the right iCloud account. For Bear, we only use the private part of CloudKit to sync notes, photos, and files (and licenses).
Theoretically, Apple can read the data stored on iCloud/CloudKit because it's in posses of the encryption keys used, and while we can all agree with Apple being one of the few major IT players who proved to be very sensitive to privacy concerns and we all trust Apple more than a random developer, we also built an encryption layer on top CloudKit's for addressing such concerns.
Crash logs are the only data we collect because we think they are essential for addressing mission-critical bugs in short times. Luckily crash logs don't tell us any sensitive data connected to users' identities.
More info about Bear's privacy here, but feel free to ask anything here.
Easy. From the Bear FAQs:
> Todos > ⇧⌘T - Toggle Todo > ⌥⌘T - Mark Todo as completed > ^⌘T - Mark todo as incomplete
So, ⌘A
to select everything, then ^⌘T
to mark everything incomplete.
Yes you can do something like that.
If you put your extra information under a header (Like H1) you can click the H1 (or long press on iOS) and a menu will pop-up with the possibility to copy the link to this header.
Just use this link as a normal permalink after.
Check it out on the Bear Help
Can you use the @date search term to narrow down the results? @date(2021) will only show you results from items edited in 2021, @cdate(2021) shows only notes created in 2021. It’s not a way to sort search results, but it might help.
More search syntax here: https://bear.app/faq/Advanced%20search%20options%20in%20Bear/#special-searches
Just look on the FAQ page linked on the subreddit's sidebar.
I'm getting really tired of seeing people come here to complain about things that have been repeatedly addressed by the dev team (the most frequent being "will there be a web app version?" and "why isn't there a version for Android/Windows?".
They do things in their particular way and on their preferred timeline. If you don't like that, you'll just be frustrated.
Well no but kinda. Bear uses Markdown so you can use certain symbols to format text, like bulleted list, bold, italics, headers etc.
If you type:
some /italic text/
It actually formats it to: some italic text
Not sure if you already knew this so sorry if I’m explaining the obvious. You can find the syntax here
The email that I received mentioned “folding content” as a new feature. I’m not sure what this exactly means though:
“Folding content (hide stuff you don’t need to see)”
You can download an alpha version of Panda I think, and see for yourself. https://bear.app/alpha/
One of the worse thing about Bear is also the way the gather feedback. Have been using from the day they launched but moved out few months back. Some place like https://hellonext.co would be of good use for Bear team and us.
It's literally in their privacy policy on their website. Among a few other things, one thing I noted on [their website](https://sparkmailapp.com/privacy#privacy_4) that caused a concern (among a few other things) for me is:
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> Your data is stored on secure servers that we rent and We use the recommended industry practices to keep your data secure. We use appropriate level of technical and organizational measures to prevent accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of or access to personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.
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I'm not saying don't use the app. What you're comfortable with in terms of privacy is a personal decision. I realize we all give up quite a bit of privacy simply by owning a smartphone. I don't know if, in the grand scheme of things, Spark's privacy policy adds significant risk, but it gave me enough pause to stop using the app.
As far as I'm aware the only way to do this is to create a URL here which you can have on your desktop to quickly change
If I understand what you want, you can actually open Bear (or navigate in Bear) to certain tags, using Bear's URL builder: https://bear.app/xurlbuilder/open_tag/
Type in the tag you want, and generate the URL. I have then created a link in a note in Bear with this URL. Clicking on the link opens that tag.
Yes, actually. You kinda sound like you don’t even use the app.
https://bear.app/faq/Code%20Snippets/Show%20code%20highlighting%20in%20your%20code%20snippets/
Literally this link discusses all of the languages that it supports syntax highlighting for.
So again, I’m confused by your comment.
Hi there,
Regarding the web version, we're happy that you are interested in this, but it's more of a long term goal.
For expectation management and to be transparent, it will be implemented further down the line.
We first have to complete and implement the new Editor for Bear. A quick plan for the web can be seen here: https://bear.app/faq/What%20about%20Bear%20for%20web,%20Android,%20&%20Windows/
Hoping this helps, but if you've any further questions let me know!
Not to complicate things, but have you looked into Squibler?
I haven't tried it out yet, but I've been using their free webapp Dangerous Writing App a couple times a week when I just want to have some fun. If I recall correctly, the developer first made it long before they released Squibler as a sort of proof-of-concept for their backend framework.
This is in the works for the big rewrite of the Editor we are currently working on.
In the meantime, one thing you can do is use Marked, a separate app for previewing Markdown from any app on your Mac. It's a separate purchase, but it's a good app from a good dev.
Check out WriteMapper. It fits a lot of the needs you described. The basic idea is that you start by organizing your ideas visually, and then you click on each "node" and start writing the text.
It's not meant to be the only app you use to write, however. It's meant to primarily be used for organizing and reorganizing your writing, so the workflow is optimized for importing and exporting your text from other apps.
A typical workflow for me using Writemapper would be to use Bear to jot down ideas and keep simple to-do lists. Then, I start a Writemapper file and brainstorm the structure of the ideas, either starting from scratch or importing a markdown file from Bear. Then, after working on it in Writemapper, I export it back to markdown and add it back to Bear or another app to finish it there.
Yup, ran into the same issue. As a workaround until either bear or ios fixes things, the x-callback url scheme of bear still works, doc
Bear has a help page to assist with this: https://bear.app/faq/Import%20&%20export/Migrate%20from%20Evernote/ It suggests adding tags to your notes in Evernote based on the Notebook they're in.
Hi there,
No, not yet.
As we are still working on the Editor, they are not within the current version of Bear at the moment.
They are available to test in the Alpha here: https://bear.app/alpha/.
We've no official ETA for that release, but we're making good progress! 🐻
I’m afraid not. Shiny Frog chose CloudKit for syncing for a number of reasons, including privacy. You can see more here https://bear.app/faq/Sync/Syncing%20&%20privacy/#information-about-syncing-and-privacy
Are you aware of this ability to navigate backwards? It’s not exactly what you’re asking for, but might be sufficient for your needs.
https://bear.app/faq/Quickly%20navigate%20notes%20on%20iOS/#quickly-navigate-notes-on-ios
Yes. Here are the macOS keyboard shortcuts. The ones you're looking for are:
⌥⌘← - Navigate back in visualized notes history ⌥⌘→ - Navigate forward in visualized notes history
And on iOS, here are the not-very-obvious gestures:
> To access access the Quick Nav menu, tap on the note Editor with two fingers. The menu will appear with options to move back and forward through your recent notes. You can also move to the top and bottom of the current note. > > You can also use these navigation options even faster by swiping with two fingers from any edge of the screen. Swipe right to go to your previous note, swipe down to go to the top of a note, and so on.
I think OP is asking something like workflowy.com and others products in the market.
It is a very useful feature to have.
Personally, I returned to Bear from Workflowy because Markdown seems to be not in their intentions.
But from what is know from Panda, the Bear team is focusing on headers only, like with Gmail and Xcode or Microsoft Visual Code.
I can be wrong but haven't seen any commitment from Bear about folding lists, but would ask u/tedwardbear to confirm.
Also, want to note that I excused Bear’s slow development pace to having a small team for a long time, but Notion was built with like 4 people and updates all. the. freaking. time.
Thank you.
After posting I saw this link: https://bear.app/faq/Import%20&%20export/Export%20your%20tags/
On iOS, just long-press the tags and it gives you an option to export all the notes under that tag. This is what I was looking for.
In the meantime, while we figure something out about this, are you familiar with keyboard shortcuts for selecting text and navigating the cursor? Most of these are standard in iOS and macOS across most apps.
Here are some good ones. The list is for Mac, but they work in iOS too:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/23/keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-select-text-mac-os-x/
Right click on Bear.app, select Show Package Contents, look under Contents>Resources for Panic Text Theme.theme, and open in text editor of choice. You'll see the RGBA codes for each color element such as Background Text Color, Base Text Color, etc. Edit those as you want and save (I suggest making backup copy of original file first like Panic Text Theme.theme.orig.
Note that the revised theme file will be overwritten with the next update, and you'll need to revise it back to what you want. So keep a backup of your revised file.
Although Hook (working with Bear) looks like it will work, the links don't work on iPhone/iPad. >!What did work is using DropBox links!!<
Now I simply use Hazel to copy from iCloud Drive to DropBox and then use the DropBox links. The advantage to this is that I can create the DropBox link from any device. If on my iPhone/iPad, I simply click on the "Copy Link" and the iOS share sheet opens. I click on Bear and all works flawlessly.
Come on Apple! This sort of linking should work!
Great app, thanks. One small bug I noticed w the release: a small visual glitch on tags appeared. see screen shot here
Happens on all tags, all themes, etc. iMac OS Sierra 10.12.4
Also +1 web app or Android app! Have an Android tablet.
Separating editor and preview isn't really what they're going for, it's much more of a fluid read and write in the same place editor without the additional burden of separating the two.
If you need that separation there are a ton of great note and writing apps out there that do it, Quiver is great and Marked+anything is also solid.
They're not as streamlined as Bear is, they're shooting for a different goal.
Another place this is evident in the lack of folders in Bear, just a simple tagging system.
i wonder if a text-replacer like espanso could help with this. not exactly the same, but using the cursor hints feature (https://espanso.org/docs/matches/#cursor-hints) with a match that creates `[[ ]]` for you and places the cursor in between the brackets might fit into this workflow
So apparently RemindMe Bot is broken but hey, I remembered on my own!
So what I do is I have espanso installed. I've got this config file specifically for bear, which allows me to create those search links.
The links themselves aren't complicated, they just search for the note's title in bear. That'll find the note itself and any note that [[wiki links]]
to it or just mentions it by full name, but no note that [markdown](bear://links)
to it.
Good to know. Thank you! I was finding that Bear and Blot.im weren't working together well either. Thank you for the suggestion! Maybe Bear can be a good place where I draft my ideas.
When you say 'Bear cloud' -- you mean iCloud, right? That's how Bear syncs its data:
from https://bear.app/faq/Sync/Bear%20is%20GDPR%20compliant/
>Out of the box, Bear only stores your notes locally on your device. If you subscribe to Bear Pro, Bear uses Apple’s iCloud service (which is GDPR compliant) to sync notes between your devices.
Under Bear's model you aren't paying for storage per se, you are paying for the ability for it to sync data using iCloud. You are still responsible to pay for any iCloud storage that Bear might use in addition to paying for the data sync, so it doesn't seem likely that they would do something like what you are suggesting as it would complicate their code for syncing and doesn't gain them anything.
Ah, I see. This is something we are working on though!
Opening the Styles Bar will be possible in Bear when Bear and Panda are merged.
Panda is the test version of the new Editor for Bear, which can be seen and tested here: https://bear.app/alpha/
The shortcut ⇧⌘Y is used to toggle the Styles Bar in Panda.
Hoping this helps!
Is using Bear's URL scheme a possibility for you? You can get the title of the currently selected note with bear://x-callback-url/open-note?selected=yes&token=xxxxxx. I use it all the time in my scripts and with Keyboard Maestro.
You'll need to use your own token in that URL and you can get from the Help menu in Bear (https://bear.app/faq/X-callback-url%20Scheme%20documentation/#token-generation). See more info at https://bear.app/faq/X-callback-url%20Scheme%20documentation/#open-note.
They’re making a few tweaks to the Markdown implementation (mostly adding features, there is a change in how horizontal breaks will work) in the new editor. You can play with that new editor’s beta releases too. I couldn’t recall if they were totally deprecating Polar markup in the new editor or not.
Best/easiest/most straightforward way would be to get Marked (also available through setapp) and create a custom css theme that matches your company’s official style sheet.
Then write in Bear as usual and when you’re ready to export, instead of exporting the note in Bear, choose Preview in Marked which will open it in Marked. Then just choose your company’s style in Marked and export to DOCX.
Once the CSS is created it’s super easy and fast and absolutely worth the money.
The easy workaround for this is to create (and pin) a note for your saved searches, and in that note, place links for searches you want to save, using the following: bear://x-callback-url/search?term=
.
You can make these Markdown links and title them so as to keep things neat. And of course you can use all the usual search operators, as indicated here.
So, for example, to find notes with a tag and some text:
bear://x-callback-url/search?term=#tag text
Or to find a phrase, use " ":
bear://x-callback-url/search?term="this exact phrase"
Hi there,
Many thanks for taking the time to leave a post, and for your support of Bear.
Marked 2 is actually an app we’d recommend with use for Bear, as noted here: https://bear.app/faq/Extra/Preview%20your%20notes%20in%20Marked%202/ !
On point 1
Bear’s data is stored in SQLite files. While you can peruse the data, it’s not in a user friendly format and it can be easy to cause data loss if you do something wrong. An explanation of where to find the file and warnings on accessing the file yourself are here: https://bear.app/faq/Where%20are%20Bear's%20notes%20located/#where-are-bears-notes-located
Hi, the selected
parameter requires the API token to be passed as an extra parameter of /add-text
. The token ensures selected
it's not used against the user for stealing data.
Hi there,
We are still working on the web version but there are a lot of moving parts within it.
Certain elements within this are dependent on the completion of other elements to move forward.
Therefore, it’s impossible to give an accurate release date. We also don’t want to provide a timeframe for users and not be able to deliver it.
This could produce disappointment and puts pressure on the team to deliver something by a certain time frame, perfect or not.
We want to get this right and we don’t want to disappoint our users.
We've made progress by releasing our Alpha Editor here: https://bear.app/alpha/, which is a step in the right direction of the web version.
This is as this Editor will be implemented within the web version.
Therefore, it will need to be completed first before we have an ETA for the web version 🐻
reading this article it doesn’t look like it unfortunately, I’d love for there to be a table of content generation function in bear based on headings
https://bear.app/faq/Advanced%20search%20options%20in%20Bear/
Hi there,
For timings, you could use the X-callback-url scheme as seen here: https://bear.app/faq/X-callback-url%20Scheme%20documentation/ to create a timer shortcut. Reminders are a popular request amongst users, therefore, i'll add your vote to this 🐻
Please give our sync troubleshooting guide a shot. We have a variety of solutions to problems like this: https://bear.app/faq/Sync/Sync%20Troubleshooting/
Typora is different than Typorama btw. I should also mention that Apple Notes may actually be a better choice for many folks frustrated with Bear. If only it offered the ability to customize the UI and easily export your notes in a commonly-used format, then I could easily have stuck with it long ago. But I've been very lucky that I had the time and circumstances to try many different apps, and have learned tons as a result, but would never have done so if it hadn't been for my frustrations with Bear.
What might be interesting to see is a new post/thread on the apps that people find they need to use in addition to Bear to accommodate all their needs. There have been some similar ones over the years, but I don't recall seeing one recently. I also don't recall that the focus was on the apps people find necessary to use in addition to Bear. Sharing info of this sort might help others see that Bear is not a "one size fits all" type of app.
A web app could be turned into an Android app using Hermit.
As a Mac and Android user, I'm waiting for the web app to drop before I officially subscribe to Bear Premium.
You can find the X-callback-url Scheme documentation here:
https://bear.app/faq/X-callback-url%20Scheme%20documentation/#x-callback-url-scheme-documentation
You can use the open-note command in a hyperlink, and you can use the identifier of a note instead of its title in the open-note command.
My Bear Clipper experience has been excellent, nearly as good as that of my Evernote account.
Here’s where I learned about Bear Clipper
https://bear.app/faq/Typography%20options/
Mac, iPad, and iPhone Font size Line height Line width - on iOS line width’s effects will be visible only on iPad and some iPhones in landscape orientation Paragraph spacing
You can also learn more about nested tags on our blog. We have a dedicated tag for it!
Unfortunately, we don't have a workaround for this situation in Bear right now. The devs want to keep it simple and focus on iCloud for sync. However, we do have a web app coming with Bear 2 that will work on desktop and mobile.
Another option if you don't need the Sidebar, library, and Note List features of Bear, our sibling app Panda might be an option for you. It's currently in alpha/beta testing, but it's basically the upcoming Editor from Bear 2 as a standalone app that edits documents from Finder. We've been using it as a testbed for some of the many new features coming in Bear 2, but we'll eventually release it as an official app once Bear 2 ships.
We've heard from some people who already use Panda on their work machines and save everything to a cloud folder. Then once they're home they bring all those notes into Bear either manually or with an automation like Apple Shortcuts.
I hope this can help. Out of curiosity, can I ask what your work's reasoning is for allowing Dropbox, Google Drive, etc., but not iCloud?
A Table of Contents (ToC) feature is coming in Bear 2, and you can get an early look at it with our Panda alpha. It’s auto-generated based on headings in the note, H1-H6.
Panda is basically a test bed for all the new features coming just to the Editor (so no Sidebar or Note List). The ToC has a dedicated tab in the redesigned Info Panel, up in the top right.
You can grab Panda for Mac here. I think the iOS version is full for now: https://bear.app/alpha/
I use a Shortcut that gets me a Quick-Note-like feature by using the Bear URL scheme. The Shortcut is just this URL in a Text box:
bear://x-callback-url/open-note?id=YOURNOTESIDGOESHEREBLAHBLAHBLAH&new_window=yes&edit=yes
Then there is an Open URLs action that opens that URL.
In some ways it’s better than Quick Note since this will open your Bear “quick note” with the text insertion at the end of the file, which makes sense to me if I’m adding notes to a file. (Quick Note seems to open with the text entry at the start of the file.)
On the Mac version of Shortcuts you can assign a keyboard shortcut under the Shortcut details area. (It won’t let you assign Globe-Q but you could do Globe-shift-Q maybe.) You could use some other utility for that like Keyboard Maestro or Raycast, but it’s nice to be able to do it with built-in features. It seems to work in all circumstances, even if Bear is closed.
This doesn’t sound like normal behavior, there might be something else going on here. Would you mind contacting support, and share more details like the device, number of notes, etc?
On iOS, you can find your note count by pulling down the main Note List at the top.
I've tried to submit the issue via https://bear.app/contact/ form, but each time it was finishing with error ;-)) -- however, in error message there was also email address for Bear support [email protected] to which I finally sent the same details about observed problem.
hope it's ok and you got it ;-))
I would recommend exporting one or multiple notes as Bear Notes, then sharing them to your wife’s iPad through AirDrop. If exporting multiple notes, they’ll be sent individually and Bear on the iPads will add them each as new, individual notes.
A great trick for this is Bear’s support for drag and drop on iOS + our Drop Bar. It’s a clever button that appears when dragging one or more notes from the Note List. Learn more about the Drop Bar here.
TL;DR:
Let me know if this works or if you need more help!
We don’t have a Table of Contents feature yet, but one is coming in Bear 2. You can check out an early preview with our Panda alpha test version of just the Editor.
A workaround for now is that you can get links to headers (H1-6) and create your own ToC in notes by adding those links to text, probably a list near the top or wherever you like.
I've passed this idea along to the team. For now, one trick you can do is Quick Look images in notes. On iOS, while viewing a note, simply tap an image to open it full screen (on iPad, make sure the Sidebar and Note List have slid off screen). On Mac, click an image so it's highlighted, then press the Space bar.
As far as whether images can be resized alongside text, it's a trickier problem to solve than you might think. Currently, images are displayed at their max available size, capped at the width of the column (window) you're working in.
Zooming a small image beyond its resolution can start looking pixelated quickly (which many users definitely do not want). Plus, coming in Bear 2 (which you can preview now with our Panda test version), you'll be able to manually resize images, which further complicates this.
I'm not saying this won't happen. But resizing images comes with a number of unique constraints that don't exist for text.
We might have a Search Operator trick for you! To view notes of a parent tag but not its children, add an explanation point before the hashtag, in this case !#travel.
Be sure to check out the support doc I linked, as we have a variety of other features and tricks in there to help with situations like this.
I create my templates using the bear link generator then place those links in a note for templates. If you click the link, it creates a new note with the content, you can set the tags, title, body, etc.
Do you mean you have tasks in multiple notes, and you'd like to combine them all into a single note? If so, Bear doesn't have that option right now, but there are a couple ways to easily find or filter for notes that have tasks in them.
The easiest is probably to click the arrow next to Notes at the top of the Sidebar, then go to the Todo subsection. We also have a few Special Search operators you can quickly use in the search box at the top of the Note List. Do these help?
Panda is our alpha test of the many, many new features coming to the Editor in Bear 2.0, but it's just the Editor, no Sidebar, tags, etc that make Bear what it is.
We recently announced our intention is to ship Bear 2.0 and then, probably sometime after, release Panda as an official standalone, document-based Markdown editor.
Latest update, but as is the norm for the dev, no ETA is given for any upcoming feature. From the sidebar:
>We generally do not share ETAs on upcoming features, as we feel they cause more harm than good. Making and supporting apps is hard, and we don’t want a surprise or delay to let you down because of an arbitrary due date. Features are done when they’re done.
As others have noted here, Bear might not be your solution since it needs a central storage system by design (for iCloud sync and other reasons).
BUT! Panda could be an option for you. It is currently a document-based preview version of just the Editor features coming in Bear 2.0. However, I heard from my friend's sister's dog's third cousin that Panda might live on as a standalone app once we ship Bear 2.0. 😎
No, it's not possible to have a last days/weeks sidebar item but you can make use of the lastXDays special search. You can easily turn this special search into a link to be used in other apps.
bear://x-callback-url/search?term=%40last7days
Or you can make use of Bear's Search Widget.
Hi there,
To search for all notes that contain one of two keywords you can use the OR option.
For example: a search like recipe or errands will find all notes that contain both of those terms.
More advanced search options are noted in here: https://bear.app/faq/Advanced%20search%20options%20in%20Bear/
Hmm, this is odd! Could you reach out directly to our customer support team here: https://bear.app/contact/ to investigate further. Please include all the relevant information and steps you've tried so far!
You might try enabling Bear’s Markdown Compatibility Mode, which—as a bonus—tells Bear to use the Markdown standard rather than Bear’s proprietary Markdown offshoot.
Hi there,
We've gotten some reports of this with the Apple Watch Series 7.
Could you try to reboot your phone also? If the issue persists after this please contact our customer support team directly here: https://bear.app/contact/ to advise.
Then allow me to change your world — there are several really useful search terms that can be combined to get the results you’re looking for: https://bear.app/faq/Advanced%20search%20options%20in%20Bear/#special-searches
Hi there,
At the moment we have two sizes for images in Bear, original and thumbnail.
We understand that this can be limiting. This is why we’re adding a resize option into Bear.
The resize feature can currently be seen and tested in Panda here: https://bear.app/alpha/
Hoping this helps!
Ah I see, this is a sign up for our Beta Sleuth.
This seems to be an issue with ad-blockers. It's preventing the GDPR checkbox to show.
Could you try disable the blockers and see if this helps?
Also, you can access Panda through the downloads here: https://bear.app/panda/
Hi there,
For our supported import formats and instructions, see here: https://bear.app/faq/Import%20&%20export/Import%20your%20notes/
Hi there,
Regarding images not syncing, this can happen when the images are not uploaded from the other devices - the reason being one of the following:
The following steps can be taken to force the sync between the devices.
If the issue is still persisting, please reach out directly to our customer support team here: https://bear.app/contact/ to investigate further and advise.
Hi there,
An alternative option to this and something that we do have available is widgets.
How to use widgets can be seen here: https://bear.app/faq/How%20to%20use%20widgets%20with%20Bear/
This alternative allows a note to be present on your device without the actual app having to be open.
Hoping this helps!
Hi, this technique you mentioned I've been using it too, actually every technique described in the Bear's official guide Advanced search options in Bear I've tried. But none of them support blur search on tags.
Take your tags as an example:
#tagparent/subtag/info
#anotherone/bla/info
Can you type #*/parent# to blur match #tagparent/subtag/info tag, or type #*/one# to blur match #anotherone/bla/info tag? Unfortunately, the search result list is empty.
Hi there,
Regarding the above, this can happen when the images are not uploaded from the other devices - the reason being one of the following:
The following step can be taken to force the sync between the devices.
If not and if the images are still not syncing, please reach out directly to our customer support team here: https://bear.app/contact/ to investigate further and advise.
You say you're a developer, so I think it should be possible to solve this with some serious elbow grease.
Bear's notes are stored in an SQLite database. You could write a program that runs via a cron job, say once an hour, that makes a backup of the notes right from the database and then git commits them for safe storage. (Grab and export all notes that have changed in the last hour.)
Equally, you could use Bear's built-in export, but then you'd have to interrupt yourself to do this every now and then. But your momma didn't raise you that way. (And nor did mine me.)
Hi there,
To search within Bear, simply use the search bar in the Notes List.
You can go to the top right or pull down in the Notes List on iOS to access the search bar.
You can use the following shortcuts for search:
For more advanced search options in Bear, check out here: https://bear.app/faq/Advanced%20search%20options%20in%20Bear/
Hoping this helps!
What, specifically, are you wanting to store in Bear from those emails? The subject and body of the email, attached files, etc? Depending on what you want to store, you might be able to cobble a workflow together on iOS using IFTTT and Workflow.
Basically-slash-theoretically you’d forward the email to IFTTT and then use the Trigger IFTTT Applet Action in Workflow to get the data into Bear.
If Workflow doesn’t make sense to you, the folks over at /r/workflow might be helpful.
NotePlan is the best native Mac app replacement I’ve found that does what you want and stores everything in plaintext files in a simple folder directory on your computer.
Craft has been mentioned in this thread, but their file format is still proprietary (they state on their website that their goal is to change this to plaintext in the future, but I’ll believe it when I see it).
Hi there,
This is the symbol for a conflicted note.
Information on conflicted notes and why they occur can be seen here: https://bear.app/faq/Sync/How%20Bear%20Pro%20handles%20conflicted%20notes/
One of the two conflicts must be deleted for the issue to be solved.
If the other conflicted note isn't showing up in the Notes List, it could be in trash or archive.
If you've any other queries or questions, let me know as I'd be happy to help!
Hi there,
Currently, Bear supports the strikethrough design for completed todos, and this is not amendable.
However, Panda has (and future Bear will have) the faded design for completed todos, see and test it here: https://bear.app/panda/
Hi there,
For navigating notes on iOS, check out: https://bear.app/faq/Quickly%20navigate%20notes%20on%20iOS/
On macOS, you can use the following shortcuts:
⌥⌘← to navigate back in visualized notes history
⌥⌘→ to navigate forward in visualized notes history
Hoping this helps!
Ah, I see. The only current way to keep the note but hide it from this type of search would be to archive it.
How to archive can be seen here: https://bear.app/faq/Hide%20notes%20with%20the%20Archive/
As this isn't exactly what you are looking for though, i'll pass on your suggestion to the development team to have a think about!
Hi there,
Panda is available to test out here: https://bear.app/panda/
Word count and other elements are included in the information panel like in Bear, but it is not linked to goals.
If you've any other questions about it, let us know, we'd be happy to help!
Hi there,
The closest we have at the moment is our forum, see here: https://bear.app/panda/
Updates about Panda, general feedback, and bug reports are all housed over there!
Use it liberally! And make sure you have a mechanism to easily access (all of) your notes from time to time. I’ve found that coupling Shortcuts with Bear is a good way to take advantage of its’ URL schemes.
Unfortunately, Apple changed how keyboard accessory views work with iPadOS 15. In short, iPadOS decide where Bear's toolbar should be placed and, for external keyboards, the only choice is placing it above the suggestion bar. Unfortunately, this generates awful user experiences when the suggestion bar is collapsed.
Along with the new editor and Bear 2.0's new virtual keyboard, we are working on a solution closer to what Notes does, but for the moment I can only suggest using the expanded suggestion bar or relying on the keyboard shortcuts.
Hi there,
The ability to hide markdown is coming to Bear. This feature is currently testable in Panda here: https://bear.app/panda/
Panda is the test version of the new Editor for Bear, once completed it'll be shipped into Bear via the 2.0 update.
Hoping this helps! Any questions let me know as i'd be happy to help.