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Posted by Luhmann
Nov 8, 2016 at 02:22 AM
I too am liking Bear the more I use it. I find the website FAQ does have a fair amount of information. I had mistakenly thought they removed a beta feature to have nested tags, but via the FAQ I realized that they had just changed how it works. Before it would automatically nest all related tags, causing a lot of duplication in the sidebar. Now one has to explicitly create a nested tag. For instance #toptag/subtag will create a nested “subtag” under “toptag.” I like this a lot as it is a nice compromise between tags and folders, and I actually wish other tagging apps would copy this. I do hope, however, that they implement autocomplete for tags as I often type the wrong thing (i.e. #apple vs. #apples) and end up with two similar tags… (I believe that autocomplete is planned.)
To clean up my tags I exported my files to the desktop and ran multi-file search and replace using the free TextWrangler app. Then I deleted the originals and re-imported them to Bear. I find the result even more useful than the weird combination of folders and tags in Ulysses which never quite worked for me (as discussed above, Ulysses implementation of tags is rather incomplete).
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Jan 1, 2017 at 07:43 PM
Last week, I reviewed all of my options for what would become my default note-taking app. I have used Scrivener, and I like it for more polished end products, but not for notetaking. I am so frustrated with Tinderbox, I have decided to not even bother with it until there is better documentation. VooDooPad doesn’t seem well-suited for enormous numbers of notes. So I played with Ulysses and Bear, and settled on Bear.
Today, I started inputting notes and, within about 30 minutes, the app slowed down to a crawl (with 11 gb of RAM free). I had pasted two JPEG screen shots in it, and think that might have caused the issue. But that is a serious problem for me (I’m working on an invertebrate zoology course to be taught in fall).
Have any of you experienced this? When I say “slow”, I mean the keyboard falls a word or two behind the letters showing up on the screen.