Bear Notes Review

Bear is a great app

Bear is one of the best note-taking apps I’ve ever tried. Don’t be fooled by its simplicity—it’s a highly powerful tool. It can adapt to any workflow, whether you want to write a letter or keep all aspects of your life organized. Yes, it lacks the ability to create shared notes, but once you get past that, you’ll realize its true potential. Its tag-based organization lets you manage information quickly and avoids the traditional drag-and-drop folder system used by other apps. Plus, it features OCR search and excellent in-note search capabilities. I highly recommend Bear, 100%!

Best Evernote alternative

In the past 3 years, I have tested various productivity apps and most of them were note taking apps. As author Tim Ferriss says: “I trust the weakest pen more than the strongest memory.” Write something down, and you’re certain to remember it. Evernote, OneNote, Keep, Apple notes, Hackpad, Simplenote, Ulysses, iA Writer, Drafts, Marked, Byword… you name it, I tried them all, some of them even a few times, but Evernote was my daily driver for the last couple of years. I was in love with this app. Simple, but yet really effective. As a huge GTD fan I was able to implement this system fairly easy. I even wrote a whole article about that (Serbian version only). Powerful tagging system, awesome features, clean design, all in one app. “Capture everything that matters” was the perfect tagline for this company. Unfortunately, today, 3 years and 1000+ notes later, I gave up. Evernote is not the company I was in love with all these years. In the past few months, Evernote was unstable, with poor sync between devices, bad new business models and lack of new features. I can’t even remember if they implemented anything “cool” and useful last year. More importantly, I don’t trust them anymore. From my perspective, they do not have a clear direction where they want to go. Writing notes is a huge part of my daily life, in that sense, I need a powerful and trusted app (and system) which can help me organize all of them. After intensive hunting for the best Evernote alternative, I ran into Bear.

This app is beautiful, easy to use, fast, and offers great features and themes

I think this app is simply beautiful; it’s very "inviting" to write in, with many well-designed themes, easy organization using #, and it just works—fast and simple, all at an excellent annual price.