![]() ![]() I would say, they are very different apps and are created for different approaches. Back to your question, the only similarities between Bear and iA Writer is the fact, that they are text editors. It has some nice features, and I can see why some people use only Bear for all of their devices. Idk if this is helpful, but I do agree that iA and Bear are the apps to beat. I used Bear too, but it didn't stick with me. I think three months is a reasonable amount of time to stick with an app before trying something else (I know that seems draconian, but honestly, the anxiety of all these different apps and experiences was affecting the actual quality of the content I was either producing or curating. At a certain point I just decided to stick with Bear, because, well, I just couldn’t take the anxiety of feeling like I was constantly missing out on something better. ![]() Ultimately I think the biggest shortcoming of all these apps is the human element: it takes TIME to develop workflow, and flitting endlessly between these apps (and creating a document sprawl in the process) is not helping yourself. I think Bear’s is slightly more intuitive, but the ability to customize (like iA) is bound to come soon to Bear. The typing experience also gives Bear a run for its money. IA writer is equally gorgeous in its own way and for pure writing, it’s very hard to beat. ol, thank you for clearing that up!īear has pound for pound the best UI of any app, but the hashtag system is beguiling: it can be a really great tool and utterly fuck you over at the same time if you are sloppy with it. Bear in mind, white people had been trapping furs in the New World for. Were Jason Moon and Rebecca Lavoie from Bear Brook - the acclaimed investigative podcast downloaded 24+. This is where iA writer shines above and beyond literally every other note/writing app (Agenda’s price plan is way more progressive than, honestly, ANY app, but its limitations are palpable.)įrankly, I’m not a tech person, and at this point, I just laugh at message threads that are like, “Sure, you can do that, just make sure you have the auth token to back-end your html so the bilateral support is counter-induced for total iCloud sync, otherwise, the syntax will read question marks as PDF’s”. book has not been put out with the luxury of ghost writers, editors, a paid staff. Michaels (Spotify) Photo: Partners in Crime Media. Honestly, I prefer Bear, but I hate hate hate that it’s subscription based for pro. It’s funny to me that we are all having these same problems. I tried to write somethings on Scrivener and some on iA but ultimately all my writing is on IA. So ultimately everything ends up on Scrivener - but the cutting and pasting is tedious. Then I store my short term and project specific notes in Bear (or now Notable or FSNotes once I make a decision), which have more powerful tagging/filtering systems and support for images and formatting. IA writer is my main writing program, whilst Scrivener is my main organiser for various writing. Side-by-side can be a good option in general: I store my long term notes in nvAlt, which has great search, speed, and ease of use. I also recommend trying nvAlt if you haven't. I no longer could see things by recency in that sense, which is a major issue for me. I tagged a bunch of notes with Notable, which updated Modified Dates for all those notes, which is the only thing iA Writer can sort by for dates. A big limitation to me though is the odd inability to sort by creation date. Notable also has cross platform support, Mac, Linux, and Windows. Bear has some advantages still, but these are nice open source alternatives. We had some discussion about two other good alternatives: FSNotes and Notable. ![]() I like Bear, but I'd prefer if it had a few improvements, like cross platform support, a hotkey to jump to a tag, ability to save in Dropbox, etc. If you have access to a Windows machine (you can even run it in a virtual machine on macOS) I really recommend checking out the trial version, and then you can make the decision if it's worth it.I am in the same boat as you. Compare price, features, and reviews of the software side-by-side to make the best choice for your business. These apps aim to be a "knowledge base" rather than an app for writing without distracting you. Similarly, Logseq, Obsidian, Athens/Roam. I looked at some other apps, you mentioned Taio in your other comment, but it doesn't really look comparable at all, it's much more complex and seems more like Craft App than iA Writer. is that bad that they're not updating it? In its current state it's mostly feature complete, there's no obvious bugs, what'd be the point of regular updates? Writer is way past the early development stage, so it's not surprising that the updates are happening more rarely.Īnd as it is now, it is the best minimal, distraction-free markdown editor that's available, and the price tag fully justifies that. ![]()
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