Adventures in Writing

Bear — A Three Year Journey

A story of note taking, enabling tech, and me

Note taking is an incredibly personal thing. Some like paper, others record their voice, and then there are those brave souls who wade into the hundreds of applications available that strive to be the best thing since lined paper.

In a previous article I wrote a few years ago, Welcome to the Note Taking Apocalypse, I discussed the issue of app store choice when it came to finding a note taking application that had a balanced mix of key functions with an interface that feels frictionless which gets out of the users way.

I also discussed how most developers felt the need to reinvent rather than refine their features time and time again. Which perhaps has more to do with the need to produce a change log and show the progression of an update cycle than actually performing any research into how, or why, a particular feature would be useful.

But I’m not here to rehash an older article to you, I’m here to talk to you about my experiences with Bear.

Some history of mine

For years when I’d write notes it was in all sorts of varying platforms and formats, both physical and digital. My trusty paper notebook is still something I hold…