This might be a useful Obsidian tip. I tried Obsidian (again!) last year but I just couldnβt walk away from Bear because itβs so good. (Bear is macOS only but they did add web access last year.)
βI discovered Obsidian's core plugin "File recovery". Enabled by default, it saves the state of your files every five minutes and keeps that history for a whole week!β
Bear is working on web access to notes... finally!
https://community.bear.app/t/bear-web-public-beta-you-are-invited/17435
Weβre excited to share a new chapter for Bear: Bear Web is now in Public Beta! This is a big step toward making Bear available wherever you need it, and weβd love for you to give it a try. β Please read the following carefully before jumping in. About Bear Web Bear Web is a web app designed to complement the native Bear apps on Mac, iPhone and iPad, providing you with the flexibility to access your notes from any web browser. It is primarily for situations where you cannot access the n...
In honor of @mako, who uses only Apple Notes and says this every time I bring up #BearNotesApp, or something similar when I bring up #obsidian as well.
I took a stab at cleaning up my code for BearExporter, a Python script to export all of your Bear notes to Markdown files you can use with Obsidian, read in the terminal, or whatever.
As the old saying goes "it works for me!" but I know it's not exactly great code, but it is available.
I'm not great at Python but I'll try to improve it as time allows.
I wrote up a quick post on how to edit a theme for Bear (and then discovered other theme hackers as well!)
β‘οΈ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/03/17/editing-a-bear-theme/
@flohgro @raycast @drafts Oh! I might start leaning into Drafts more for quick capture on my Apple Watch and as a front to #obsidianmd (which I'm likely to start using more). Will definitely check out your extension.
Have you also considered dabbling with their AI extensions now that it's a thing? There's one for #BearNotesApp that's interesting. Allows you to perform a natural language query against your Bear Notes. Definitely a cool concept.
@amerpie Just came across this one based on a post from @jantzen. I've not tried to tweak the CSS yet, but the baseline capability is simple and likely what you might be interested in.
https://github.com/marijnbent/obsidian-print
Do wish someone made a plugin that gave export format options similar to what Bear Notes App offers. That app is so good about allowing you to easily copy text or export files in various formats VERY simply.
So damned handy.
@rafa well it depends on the app!
Xcode? Fullscreen
@ivory? floating
#BearNotesApp? tiled to a β
of the screen
#ArcBrowser? tiled to β
of the screen
@things? floating
#Slack? tiled half to Β½ of the screen
Pete Prodoehl π
Anthony Baker
MindNode
Joao Dordio