I downloaded the app yesterday after I saw some posts on mastodon about all the features that they built into this app. Really beautiful and enjoyable to work with. Although there was a tiny learning curve with the controls and their particular brand of markdown, I did not feel that I was wrestling with the app so much as just incorporating a few tweaks into my normal notetaking.

As a former (and completely recovered) Evernote user from waaaaayyy back, this is such a refreshing experience. I always felt that I was wrestling with that app to do what I wanted it to do. While there were a hundred little annoyances that I had with Evernote and the direction they took that business, it was actually the lack of any real markdown ability that ultimately drove me away. On the other hand, I have always been a little let down with Drafts and Obsidian with regard to handling other files and photos within the notes (or lack thereof). I suppose it is fine to just link to a file in Obsidian, but Bear seems to have (hopefully) struck the right chord here.

I haven’t had a chance to try out all the new features (or probably all of the old features either), but I’m really impressed and happy with it.