| ▲ | tptacek 2 hours ago |
| I'm gradually replacing most of the software I use with software I conjure myself, and Bear is the reason I'm probably never going to write an editor; it's not clear to me how I could improve it. Emacs is probably out the door by the end of 2027, but I'd be surprised if I wasn't still using Bear for years from now. It's quite good. |
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| ▲ | jwr 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Interesting — I'd say the editor is actually Bear's weakest spot. I keep fighting it all the time and wish it didn't try to do things "automagically" for me. For example, editing a set of tags causes endless frustration. I can never guess what the tool will do next or what it expects me to do. |
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| ▲ | brink 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > I'm gradually replacing most of the software I use with software I conjure myself Why? |
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| ▲ | PacificSpecific 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I haven't done this for a notes app but I have for diet and Todo apps. It's nice to have exactly the features I want and nothing more. | |
| ▲ | tptacek 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I've written about this a bunch before and wasn't looking to take the thread off on a tangent; I'm really just saying how much I like Bear. Bear is great. I don't think I could come up with many ways to make it suit me better, which is not something I can say about a lot of other software. | |
| ▲ | Lord_Zero an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why not? Its 2026 you can waive a hand and have bespoke opinionated FREE apps that do what you want and keep your data where you want. Compare that to being forced to use someone else's highly opinionated software that might have paid pro features you need or don't need. What a strange question to ask. | | |
| ▲ | gffrd an hour ago | parent [-] | | “why pay to go see a movie that someone else made, when I can see a movie I made for free?” | | |
| ▲ | tptacek 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | See, I could not in fact make a good movie. But I'm very sure there are apps I can do a good job with; I am in fact a professional software developer. So that comparison doesn't seem super on-point. | |
| ▲ | davidivadavid an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm not looking to be surprised by the tools I want to use for my specific purposes. Apples and oranges. |
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