Bear

This app shines in the little details: it’s crazy fast, compare it to Apple notes and you will see a night and day difference, especially for long notes. It has table of contents, which makes it easy to navigate long notes. The tag system is miles better than folders. You can manage your todos by following a thin line under each of your notes that shows the progress of your todos in the note. It supports latex! So you can write math formulas now. It has web access. It has a nice menu of themes. It shows you unmentioned backlinks: you can reference other notes that mention the title of your current note. You can lock notes with attachments. You can copy links to each note. You can export to multiple formats. You can draw (although here it’s a bit basic) and have Bear detect words in your images. It gives you useful stats about your notes. And I could keep going.<br/><br/>You would not tell half of these when you first open the app, and that’s the point. Its power is modest. It enables you and gets out of the way so you can work. Their dev team is small and slow, but they deliver. Late sometimes, but they deliver. This app is a powerhouse.

This app is so streamlined that it can be deceptive how brilliant it is. Bear works with your mind—without friction. <br/><br/>Hashtags are one of five key power tools here. Use them to create a filing system, as well as to cross index any files you want.<br/><br/>Bear seems simple, but it is in fact the most elegant writing tool out there. In its elegant simplicity exists ultimate creative power.<br/><br/>As a fiction writer, with many large projects on my plate, I can tell you—as someone who has tried all the excellent writing apps out there—nothing comes close to Bear.<br/><br/>It’s exactly what it needs to be, leaves everything else in its wake, is created by people who design with pure intent, which is why it’s literally pristine.<br/><br/>Even if you doubt, master its incredibly simple tools, and build out a file system using the tags— they nest like breadcrumb trails…and there you go. You no longer have to choose a folder, or even a title. Just write, just flow, just go.

This app is reliable, easy to navigate, and stylish. I love using it every day! Please consider adding a feature for user-made themes in the future! And a feature to toggle a note’s history + restore versions!

I was looking for an Evernote alternative where I could use tags, and this is perfect. I both like to write and store recipes using tags for season, type, occasion etc. The support for nested tags is much appreciated, and their Pro plan is very reasonable. Not much is paywalled (it’s just cloud features, themes, and search), so give it a try!

It’s like it was made for me

I’ve had this for years and love it. Just open and start writing, and the company does NOT extract or use any of your information, location, contacts, etc., which is a great sign of integrity, especially today.

在网页上写东西，第二天起来发现没有按照网页上最新写的同步，而是同步了手机里没写新东西的旧版本，天塌了你知道吗。这体验太差了，因为我前一天晚上专门试验过会不会同步，看的时候没有问题，结果早上起来给我开大招。

Bear slaps. I've used it for like 8 years now. Super simple, just the right amount of complexity. Themes and styles are beautiful, including all the custom icons. Sync is always super fast and smooth. Exporting, tagging, formatting, all just work exactly how you'd want. Everything feels crisp and easy to use, especially and most importantly the note editor UI, which is truly perfect. Keep doing what you're doing dev team give somebody a raise