| ▲ | brink 3 hours ago |
| It just so happens I am looking for a solid knowledge management application. Too bad this is Apple-only. I've gone from Obsidian, to LogSeq, to Org-mode on Emacs a few days ago, and I think I'm probably going to stay there. I'm no expert on the subject, but I'm pretty sure Obsidian is winning not because it's great, but because it mostly doesn't suck, and it runs everywhere. I have little doubt that Bear is a better app than Obsidian. |
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| ▲ | bovermyer 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| I use Zettlr as a front end to Markdown notes. It's similar to Obsidian, but works better for me, since I do a fair amount of academic work right now. |
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| ▲ | al_borland an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I tried using Bear many years ago. My issue with it was that while it was using markdown to format, everything is locked away in a SQLite DB, which kills a significant benefit of markdown notes. I like Obsidian because it’s just stores a folder full of markdown files, and I can read/edit those files with whatever I want. It feels like a lot less lock-in than with Bear. |
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| ▲ | LVB an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I do understand the sentiment, but a couple of things that make it ok for me: 1. exporting everything is simple 2. the official bear CLI is quite capable, and Claude has no trouble using it to handle all manner of searching, organizing, you name it. | | |
| ▲ | al_borland 17 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Exporting is nice and all, but that is cumbersome if I want to edit something in place using a different app. For example, there are some things with Obsidian where it would be much easier to do what I'm trying to do in a full code editor, like VS Code. It's nice to be able to just open up the file, make my edits, save it, and instantly see the changes reflected in Obsidian. In another case, I wanted to easily log things throughout the day and append a file I had in Obsidian. Being a simple text file, I was able to do this with Bash, Hammerspoon (Lua), and AppleScript at various points in time... having to learn and use a special CLI command to append text to a file feels like overkill. Having to use an LLM to search text also feels like overkill. One of the things I like markdown notes for is the simplicity of it. I can just use grep if I want. I can open the files on a computer from 1990 or 2090 and it will work. Having to bring in all these other tools into the mix hurts that utility. At that point, I might as well just use Apple Notes. |
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| ▲ | sandgiant an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Shiny Frog, the team behind Bear, have been working on a file backed notes app for years. Recently revived and rebranded from Panda to https://lettera.md. |
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| ▲ | t_mahmood an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have built a lightweight, note taking application that focuses on quick note taking, and fully keyboard based usage. Notes are all one liner, and it supports minimum Markdown, you can manage tasks, reminders, do inline calculations, unlimited undo/redo. You can organize notes by project and categories. https://mtarin.com/projects/nift/ Core point is simplicity, and frictionless note taking, and high performance, my dev version, can work with 12k notes without any issues. Data is stored as text file. Demo version is also available I am looking for feedback, and wondering what would make people actually interested to buying this. It's completely hand written, no AI assisted code. |
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| ▲ | brink 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The indispensable feature of LogSeq for me was structuring my notes into blocks and being able to link to those blocks in other areas. My thoughts flow into each other and I'd like to be able to document those links. Org-roam is what (kind of) allows this for me. | | | |
| ▲ | mycocola an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | This looks fantastic! Gonna take a closer look later. | | |
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| ▲ | baran1 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| hello org-mode friend! I've been on a similar journey and over the last month I've just been vibe building a replacement for logseq. So far: native macOS, high polish (I was a Bear user before logseq), and uses pi-durable so I can launch an agent from any line. |
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| ▲ | cmoski 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nuclino is pretty nice. |
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| ▲ | bananamogul 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Joplin is another option, if you want a FOSS OneNote replacement |
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| ▲ | dominotw 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| dont do any knowledge managment. you'll be fine. |
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| ▲ | NathanWilliams 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have been using Bear daily for 7 years and it is indispensable for me. Maybe you have perfect memory, but I have found it critical for my job. | | |
| ▲ | d0liver an hour ago | parent [-] | | Notes end up being process, too. It's basically a way of being intentional with how you apply your attention throughout changing mental contexts. I might have a really good idea today and then six months from now it's just totally off of my radar. Notes help with that context switching. |
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| ▲ | Ezhik 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | nothing left to learn it's all already known | | |
| ▲ | thisIsFiner an hour ago | parent [-] | | Unknown to the incurious public and unknown to humanity are two different things "It" may not "all be known" but thanks to Einstein and other physicists we can be confident we're not going to find resolution to human biology's real problems circumlocuting entirely rhetorical political and economic theory shat out of academia the last 30 years of the 1900s, or same old religious allegory Whole lot of information is 100% noise; as forgetable without issue as what you had for dinner on March 27, 2003; yeah you forget and don't track a lot of stuff that keeps you alive; I doubt sending an email on schedule matters much either. Just our contemporary social and communal role-play. What's left to learn is pretty much moon shot physical experiment; generic office work 10s of millions are skilled in is not going to move the needle |
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