[runjake]

Bear Notes is almost there at 99%.

Good:

- Elegant

- Fast

- Excellent sync

- Excellent export abilities

- Excellent markup and code markup support

- Good automation possibilities (iOS Shortcuts, x-callback-url, AppleScript)

Bad:

- iOS/macOS only. There's a web version in the works, but I would not count on that ever seeing the light of day.

https://bear.app/

[kingkongjaffa]

When I was writing my masters thesis my idea to split it up into a series of papers really helped me to remove writers block, I wrote many chapters in Bear to avoid distraction and it was a great lever before finally typesetting the whole thing in LaTeX.

[thiht]

Does it finally handle tables? I tried it but found it way over hyped, it's just not any good (yet?). And its inferior pseudo markdown is infuriating.

[BjoernKW]

I'd use it if its sync capabilities weren't iCloud-only.

From a business and development point of view I totally get why they opted for iCloud: It allows them to focus on their core business and delegate the supporting domain of data synchronisation to someone else.

Unfortunately, since for my own business I'm using Google Workspace and Google Drive that's not really an option for me.

Bear rightfully claim that they're GDPR-compliant. However, they're kind of just delegating that issue, too, since Apple, in contrast to Google, doesn't provide a GDPR-compliant data processing agreement to business customers. It's debatable if such an agreement is really necessary in this case but as with all things GDPR it's better to tread carefully.

[ahpearce]

Seconded!