Bear App – Minimal and simple yet powerful and well-design, Note-taking tool.
An excellent option for *Apple Ecosystem* Note-taking app world!
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Search should not end!
And I am an enthusiast of tools that improves productivity. Note-taking is an essential tool for me and Bear is very much what all I need in my note-taking.
Bear app is best of simplicity, minimalists, intuitive and secure note-taking experience.
Here are top features of Bear app specific to my needs and use:
- **Markup Editor**:
- My encounter with Markup editor is very recent and I am really enjoying it so far.
- It’s an engaging experience of writing without breaking your thoughts.
- Markup editor is an example of synergy and love between your *fingers, keyboard and thoughts*.
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2. Minimal yet beautifully design interface:
- Aesthetically pleasing writing experience
This is where Bear shines, minimal yet intuitive and engaging writing experience and I am sure anyone who enjoys penning down thoughts will surely appreciate the focus mode and Bear writing experience. It’s pure joy!
- Bear also offers varieties of themes to choose with Bear Pro.
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3. #Hashtags In and Folder out:
- Bear do not have folder systems to organise your notes, this can be a good or bad news based on your preferences, however I don’t mind either.
- Tags and nested-tags #bear/nested-tags is working well for me and I m getting used to it.
4. All the sharing options :
*My most needed feature in Note-taking*
- Bear is my choice of app, when I need to share and export on Mobile devices. iPad and iPhone.
- It offers almost all the possible export options – Pro feature, and for my kind of use this has been best of experience of exporting notes in word, PDF, JPG format like meeting notes, email draft etc.
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5. Secured Notes
*Lock specific note*
- Some Notes are for our eyes only and Bear knows that !
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6. Cross-Note Links:
*excellent for inter-connected note*
- useful for quick reference
- I started using this feature recently but it’s like the more you use, the better you get and also the more you love!
- Use it for inter-connected meeting notes for specific projects, tags, ideas, tasks etc.
- [[Task list]]
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One more reason – Major update ***Panda*** coming soon!
*Exciting update coming up Bear 2.0*
Alpha version available for early access and to have a flavour of what is coming up.
- Key features
- Tables
- Early version offers ease of use of tables, even on mobile devices.
- Better Markup Editor
- No Markup interference in writing.
- Customised keyboard
- With introduction of tables, updated markup Bear also coming up with customised key boards.
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Keep writing! Keep Sharing!
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