This might be a useful Obsidian tip. I tried Obsidian (again!) last year but I just couldn’t walk away from Bear because it’s so good. (Bear is macOS only but they did add web access last year.)
“I 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!”
The Weekly Review - Issue 5 2026 - https://blog.codemaclife.net/post/the-weekly-review-05-26
I focused choosing Bear Notes app for blogging and TickTick to track my habits.
I've organised my reads for 2026 in Bear notes app📗
Each book links to my notes and highlights, including other information gathered from the internet.
The circle is now complete. 😌
I can add links to notes in #BearNotes from my work logs & outlines in #Workflowy, keeping the latter clean while taking advantage of the features it has that Bear does not (and visa-versa).
(I tried in the past to use Bear like a wiki/log tool and it felt like it strained my mental model. I prefer using Bear for standalone notes generally speaking.)
Using Workflowy for work logging has been tremendously helpful. Never need to recall “what did I do yesterday??”!
@tekphloyd Like #Drafts, #BearNotes doesn’t work on Windows which for a multi-OS user like me is basically a dealbreaker to ever using either of them.
But you’re right - #Obsidian’s mobile experience absolutely sucks. It’s because they never made a separate mobile-friendly app (or mode) and chose instead to try and incorporate all of the desktop UI/UX features and functions.
Bear is working on web access to notes... finally!
https://community.bear.app/t/bear-web-public-beta-you-are-invited/17435
We’re 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 we’d love for you to give it a try. ⚠ 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...
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.
Pete Prodoehl 🍕
CodeMacLife
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
The Peter Pan of Nerdery™
Christian Gajewski
Steve Roy