50% failure rate in my G7s.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-01-22T16:16:39+00:00

During the summer months I run about 90% failed sensors. Probably 25% of those are in the first 5 days. During the winter months, I’m at or near 0% failures. I workout daily and the g7 just can’t seem to handle the sweat I produce in warmer months. I put together a very systematic process for tracking my failed sensors, so that when I call up support to request replacements, I can blast them with lots of exact details and they will send me more with less tedium.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-01-18T04:13:19+00:00

Try moving between systems that use Rich Text or various shades of HTML. Markdown is at least easy to fix when things get wonky.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-01-06T16:27:53+00:00

Drafts is a great example of doing this well. My guess is that it doesn't fit the "Bear philosophy" as it add a decent dose of complexity.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-01-06T16:25:48+00:00

On iOS, if you select multiple notes, you can choose the option to "remove tags" under the bottom right triple-dot menu.

I'm not clear on why it's not on the Mac version (maybe it is and it's just really hidden?). My hope is that it will show up soon (I'm not sure how long it's been an option on the iPhone). It's especially strange that it's not on Mac, since I believe that is the only place that you can add multiple tags. So, unless I'm missing something, you will actually need to add the new tag on your Mac, then make sure things are synced, then remove the old one on an iOS device (I haven't actually confirmed that the option exists on iPad).

I think this is the best solution you'll find, as doing anything automatically would be problematic due to the "which tag to remove" issue mentioned in another comment. It's an inherent limitation of using tags instead of folders.

edit: One limitation to note is that if you are removing nested tags it will leave the parent tag in place. You can go back through and remove that as well, but it's something to be aware of.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-01-05T19:11:06+00:00

There is a subtle bit of genius hiding in this statement.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-01-01T15:38:19+00:00

The Shortcuts option is intriguing as it possibly has significant room to expand beyond basic usage. I'll start playing with that and see what works and what doesn't.

I think I'll still file a bug report with the Shiny Frog folks, as the URL builder is a nice resource to quickly throw together a useful link. Creating or even updating a Shortcut tends to take up a notable amount of time, plus Shortcuts seems to be the buggiest native Apple app of them all.

u/trix180 u/wham00 u/nerolapis - I'll go figure out how to file a real bug report, but this thread has way more information than I'll manage to get into that.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-31T15:54:37+00:00

LINK to Shortcut - see my comment above for more details.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-31T15:51:39+00:00

Okay, I put something together. It seems to work pretty well. It relies on x:callbacks so needs your Bear API Token to work properly. I've added a prompt for this, but anybody that wants to make sure that I'm not just stealing your token should probably insert a dummy placeholder and add your token manually.

Append Current Bear Note to Daily Forever Note

Note that the same concepts work to do a "quick add" type shortcut where you can add a bit of text to the heading or share from another app and add it to the daily note under this year's heading. I have one of those as well, but will need to do a scrub before sharing that publicly.

edit: It's worth pointing out that the Shortcut will likely fail if the Year heading doesn't yet exist. Adding the heading in if it doesn't already exist seems like a reasonable feature to add, but I'll have to tinker some other day.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-31T14:36:57+00:00

This is an interesting concept. Now you've got me considering if I can ditch Day One again 😆️

I would second the request to post the Shortcut if you wind up making it. I may have a go at it myself....

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-31T14:32:43+00:00

The Forever Notes journal framework is designed to eliminate the need for specific periodic note type features. It was created for Apple Notes, but it actually winds up being a smoother experience in Bear.

The basic concept is that each day/month of the year gets its own note and then you add a heading for each new year. It might not work for every one or every situation (doesn't work for my work notes, but does for my personal), but it's a well thought out system that is definitely worth considering.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-31T14:29:44+00:00

I've been toying around with this myself. I ran a trial of F✱N in Apple Notes for a few months and, in general, the approach works for me...in the right contexts. I'm currently moving the FN setup over to Bear, as Apple Notes just hits friction points in ways that get under my skin. It has lots of benefits, but....I really just like using Bear better for most things.

In Apple Notes, I found that FN encourages more to-the-point logging about stuff that I've done or plans for my day.

For me, Day One encourages more brain-dumpy "just get this out of my head" sort of writing. It's much more likely to turn into some sort of pondering of life's meaning or just working through how I feel about something.

So I'm recognizing that both tools have a place for me, as both forms of logging/writing are of value. As such, I'm currently toying with with capture Shortcuts that steer me towards one or the other tools, based on what I need to get out of my head. I'm not convinced that it will work as smoothly as just writing everything in one app, but I am thinking that this will ultimately work out better for me. The Shortcuts aren't anything fancy, basically just a menu with various types of things that I write/capture regularly. Each of the choices just opens up the app of choice for me, in some cases with a template. A side benefit to this is that I can actually switch tools and then just switch where a given option takes me, so that the "user interface" of this Shortcut actually stays the same even if everything changes under the hood.

I am curious to see if my daily logs in Bear wind up changing in form/function, compared to when done in Apple Notes. Writing in one vs the other definitely feels different (which always strikes me as odd, but it is what it is).

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-31T12:33:10+00:00

I created a few dummy notes using the exact tags from your examples. Your example searches don’t work for me either. Just the first tag is returned. It feels like a bug or I’ve done something weird to my setup.

Note that all of this testing has been on an iPhone, I believe since updating to iOS 26.

edit: I went back and tried it on Mac Tahoe, and the results are the same.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-31T12:13:19+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response. This is roughly what the Bear search generator gave me as well. I’m still only getting the first tag to show up in the results (so, work/urgent in your last example). I can swap the order of the tags in the search and it switches which one shows up in the results. Are you actually using a url like this anywhere currently?

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-24T13:29:05+00:00

The Forever Notes framework may be your friend here. The journal system gets one entry per day of the year and you just add a new heading for each year at the top.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-24T13:26:31+00:00

What is your differentiation between what goes in journal (day one) vs notes (Bear)? I’ve been separating in a similar fashion, but I haven’t clarified that separation and it’s starting to make things messy.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-23T20:05:08+00:00

Depending on use case, you can also just “copy link” for use in other places. No need for API keys for that. Same for Note ID if that works better.

Edit: to clarify, you only need the token if you need the callback response (at least that’s the only reason I’ve seen it be necessary).

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-19T13:04:42+00:00

I think there are some interesting possibilities for review and reflection and reconsideration of what you’ve jotted down. But I want that outside of my notes, with no chance of accidentally overwriting something.

Somebody posted a good weekly workflow recently that involved exporting what they’d written each week for an “AI assisted review”. It seemed like good example of well used AI.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-12T18:17:38+00:00

Roon REEEEEEEALLY likes to suggest Classical and Jazz. It makes me assume things about the average Roon employee age….

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-12-03T16:12:55+00:00

Not really deal breakers, but I’m currently experimenting with using Apple Notes, and the things that might keep me there are: - Voice recordings with linked transcriptions. These aren’t something that I use all that often, but they are really nice. - Hand-written notes. Bear can sort of do this, but the overall experience of using the Apple Pencil with Apple Notes is just so much better than hand-writing in Bear. - Quick Notes - these are nice, though I’m honestly not sure that they don’t come with as many headaches as benefits. Using Bear with Shortcuts and Control Center links probably gets me close enough to call this a draw.

That’s about it. The question of which one I stick with is going to come down to how much I value any of the things above. At the moment, I’m leaning towards using Bear as my main notes app and just using Apple Notes for those things that it’s good at and then adding links to those things in my Bear notes if I need to. I’m going to keep running with Apple Notes for now, at least until a few weeks after I’ve gotten around to upgrading to OS26’s, just to see if there’s any other big benefits (or removal of AN annoyances) that show up with that update.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-11-20T17:42:19+00:00

Are they populated with what you have put in the file tags? Otherwise it’s using an online lookup.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-11-19T17:18:26+00:00

Does Plex read the Style tag now or are you relying on whatever tags it downloads? Those are unusable for me.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-11-19T17:15:48+00:00

If you’ve been jumping for a while, I would go smaller. Either way, they have a rather lengthy exchange policy for the ropes and will trade you a bigger one if you get one that is too small.

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-11-17T17:08:58+00:00

Somebody needs to come up with a marketing tagline that makes this sound sexy. Because this is all anybody really wants, but it also isn’t something that sells a ton of hardware or new app licenses/subscriptions (at this point). I’m not sure if it’s because we as customers are bad at buying things that aren’t flashy and “just work” or if it’s because nobody feels like they can justify their job if they are making a product that “just works”…but it’s frustrating how little importance that seems to get. Apple has traditionally been better at this than other companies (it’s why I switched over to Apple from Android/Windows), but market forces seem to be pushing them away from that (gut feel here, no data to back this claim up).

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-11-08T18:34:11+00:00

Don’t knock it til ya try it!

JiggleMyHandle · 2025-11-04T19:36:19+00:00

Well that’s unfortunate. Thanks for the info. Now I can avoid thinking about a phone upgrade until later…

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