Bear review

Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 4, 2016 at 10:08 AM

I have it installed on everything in sight, and it’s a very nice version 1.0; the last-minute nested tags feature is especially cool (although the concept is slightly flawed; I can’t see an obvious solution, however. It’s not unlike the approach used by CintaNotes on Windows). It’s undoubtedly one of the most elegant Markdown-based editors out there - I especially like the simplified Markdown it uses; it’s high time others moved over to a simple solution like this (bear in mind it also supports standard Markdown if that’s what you prefer).

Very impressive! Once they introduce true folding, it’ll be hard to beat! The stand-out feature is undoubtedly the ease with which one can import web pages and turn them into instant Markdown notes. I imported an entire ebook last night (around 200 pages), and after a brief delay, the whole thing was neatly inserted in a note, complete with links etc. For such an apparently lightweight app, that’s impressive! The search function is also handling this large volume of text with aplomb.

Good start! I look forward to seeing Bear goes in the future.