Using hashtags, one can organize their notes. All these features appear in a row of icons about the keyboard on iOS/iPadOS and in the TouchBar or formatting palette on Macs. This list includes: adding photos, drawing (with Apple Pencil support), links to other notes, text styles, text formatting (bold, italics, etc.), alignment, hyperlinks, lists, checkboxes, highlighting, attachments, inserting calendar dates, tabs, and more. Bear has a minimalist design while maintaining a lot of powerful features. Evernote will remain in my toolbox as a reference but I think I’ll be leaving behind the premium account and use it more as an archive. Though, as a side note, with so many years of notes in Evernote, I am looking forward to only importing the things I need-some spring cleaning. And these notebooks from Evernote feel like they will soon make their way over to Bear. Other notebooks and notes are still in Evernote but as it stands, I’m loving Bear. For the past few weeks I have only been using Bear for my Adrian’s Gear writing and organization. I have tried it many times but was so concerned with moving over all of the my content from Evernote that it simply deterred me. It is an app that I have had my eye on for some time. It takes the minimalism of Simplenote, much of the power of Evernote, and the platform integration I desire and makes for the “Goldilocks” app I have been hoping for. As with so many of my reviews, I write on my iPad Pro and this particular article in Bear. I can’t say enough good things about the app but it was not the correct tool for me.īear, an app of similar functionality to many noted above, allows me to work the way I wish and with the easy and designs I desire. While all this is very good, like Simplenote, it was too minimalist. Also available is a macOS version and it syncs with the cloud service of your choice. More of a digital notebook than a writing app. Also perhaps in a different class of note taking and writing apps. That process was both ugly and unfortunate. Goodnotes came highly recommend to me but I didn’t like the interface nor the organization-it also had some strange quirks that I couldn’t figure out how to get around like changing notebook covers. And Microsoft OneNote is very powerful but too off-axis of the Apple ecosystem for me to be able to feel comfortable using it. I tried using Notablity and just didn’t like it. But I definitely recommend trying it out if you need something that is the true virtue of minimalist note taking. I even wrote a review some time ago but since I don’t actively use it, I have a hard time giving a solid review. It is quite a lovely app to use for notes and is just what its name suggests, it is simple using markdown, basic lists, and hashtags for organization. In fact, I love this app-it just wasn’t the right app for me. That is a challenge to maintain simplicity while including high functionality. Over the years, I have searched for a minimalist notes app with some power behind it as well. I’m not going to dwell on these shortcoming and jump right into this review. I am a premium user of the app, paying for more options and storage but recently I have found the iOS and iPadOS versions to have become slow, buggy, and challenging to use. It was and remains an incredibly powerful app for notes, organization, projects, and more. ![]() In 2008 the App Store launched for iPhone and since then I have used Evernote.
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