Bear lets me paste a link into the beginning or end of a note I select, so I have one for that purpose. When I occasionally want to save a link for later from on my phone, I now have a place to dump it (where I know I will look later). For many years I’ve followed the Getting Things Done methodology, but never really found an inbox page useful within my digital notes. The share implementation on iOS is a killer feature I discovered after I made the decision to use Bear. This post is written in Bear before copied into my Hugo repo with some minor formatting changes for images. This means it’s pleasant to write in Markdown (using Markdown syntax or keyboard shortcuts) and see the formatted result at the same time. The way Markdown syntax is shown with the applied formatting (without a separate preview mode, is the best I’ve seen an editor handle Markdown. Pros On its own, OneNote is a fine service. Also has a bunch of themes to choose from. OneNote is not a perfect fit for everyone, especially if you have to migrate thousands of notes from one app to the other. It looks really good, with a simple but functional interface (⌃1 hides everything except the current note). I can find my way around without touching the mouse or trackpad, like I try to do in most apps. Great keyboard navigation puts Bear on top the mentioned competitors for me. Have used this for a while in offline mode, but lacks keyboard navigation and doesn’tīear is the one I’m most impressed with and the one I switched to. Haven’t tried this, but coming from OneNote, this seems to be pretty similar.īoostnote. Copying to Markdown also isn’t a thing.Įvernote. If you’re going to limit yourself to the Apple eco system, you have to consider Apple’s Notes, but I find the keyboard navigation limited and clunky (normal paste, without formatting, is ⌥⇧⌘V □). I dismissed a few other note taking apps in the process.Īpple’s Notes. Wanted a better writing experience with the possibility to copy and paste to Markdown.Font family and size gets mixed when I edit the same note on different devices.Here is an example where I try to check a checkbox using ⌘1 Keyboard navigation is limited and flaky.Just like all Simplenote apps, they are completely free. Visit our downloads page and try them out. Simplenote first started on iOS and has expanded to include Android, Mac OS X, and now Windows and Linux. There are two things that I find a bit frustrating though. Simplenote for Windows and Linux Today we welcome two new apps into the Simplenote family. It’s free, feature-rich, works on all devices and so on. I’ve been using Microsoft OneNote for over a decade and I’ve been fairly happy with it. To my own surprise I ended up with a paid one that’s only available on Apple devices – Bear. After switching from Windows to Mac, I have reconsidered a few of the applications I use.
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