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Posted by steve-rogers
Jul 17, 2023 at 02:14 PM
Off-topic, but thanks for mentioning History Book. I hadn’t come across this plugin - it’s badass!
MadaboutDana wrote:
Ha, this more or less describes my position – except I also
>use Bear to capture interesting web pages (although more and more, I
>rely on History Book to do that automatically). The Bear extension for
>Safari is very good (but then, UpNote’s extension is also good, and
>available for other browsers as well).
>
>I was underwhelmed by their folding, although there is a convenient
>keyboard shortcut. But compared with e.g. Obsidian, it’s relatively
>clunky. You can, of course, capture web pages to Obsidian as well, if
>you really want to (there’s a plugin for that ;-)).
>
>But Bear remains a very good-looking app, with an excellent search
>function and a very elegant handling of hierarchical tags (although here
>again, Obsidian is just as capable). So like @Paul, I’m reluctant to get
>rid of it (especially since I subscribe at the original price).
>
>Paul Korm wrote:
>I haven’t seen a head-to-head comparison, but it seems that Apple Notes
>>under iOS/macOS 17 will be pretty much on par with Bear 2.
>>
>>I love Bear. It is a beautiful app. But development is the most
>>glacial of any competitor. Sometimes it seems that Bear is developed
>>during an occasional coffee break by someone whose day job requires a
>>lot of travel away from the office.
>>
>>I’m luck to have legacy pricing on Bear Pro, and just for nostalgia I
>>keep Bear in my Mac’s dock and on the first page of my iPhone, but I
>>rarely use it. Time was, Bear was the best way to capture notes with
>>images, but that time passed by Bear long long ago. Obsidian on the
>>phone is a cluster and best avoided, but Notes is good, and Agenda is
>>excellent and surpassed Bear’s feature set years ago.
>>
>>But, I still love Bear, if only to look at it from time to time.
Posted by Amontillado
Jul 17, 2023 at 02:57 PM
I wish vendors would keep in mind old-school types like me. If an app doesn’t work with local storage, maintains a separate file per project, and will let me arrange my own sync via methods I choose then I don’t want to use it.
It’s silly of me to run from cloud sync. Unfortunately, it chills my creativity to think a work in progress could be read by someone with no idea why I’m writing my drivel.
One could imagine the SWAT team showing up after a dedicated sysadmin found my plans for breaking into Fort Knox with a spork and a can of WD40. Fiction, of course, but that’s just what an international arch villain would say, isn’t it?
Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 18, 2023 at 10:26 AM
I suppose this is worth worrying about. A little bit. Maybe more. But on the other hand, I don’t recall ever seeing the internet all outraged because someone dug through iCloud or AWS or elsewhere to find someone’s private poems. I don’t think there’s a hacker out there who would care to know what I think about anything, let alone go through the effort to find out. This kind of hacking is more likely to be at the hands of someone at a party who idly picks up my journal and flips through it.
Amontillado wrote:
>It’s silly of me to run from cloud sync. Unfortunately, it chills my
>creativity to think a work in progress could be read by someone with no
>idea why I’m writing my drivel.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 18, 2023 at 03:18 PM
Love it. Of course, if your spork was really SporkGPT, maybe that *would* be more serious…
Or not, of course. As I keep reminding people (yep, tedious), AI should really be termed II (Imitation Intelligence).
Amontillado wrote:
I wish vendors would keep in mind old-school types like me. If an app
>doesn’t work with local storage, maintains a separate file per project,
>and will let me arrange my own sync via methods I choose then I don’t
>want to use it.
>
>It’s silly of me to run from cloud sync. Unfortunately, it chills my
>creativity to think a work in progress could be read by someone with no
>idea why I’m writing my drivel.
>
>One could imagine the SWAT team showing up after a dedicated sysadmin
>found my plans for breaking into Fort Knox with a spork and a can of
>WD40. Fiction, of course, but that’s just what an international arch
>villain would say, isn’t it?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 18, 2023 at 07:38 PM
Ha! Love it. Imitation Intelligence. That could apply to a few people in the news, too.