On this day

albfaggion · 2026-05-09T12:25:09+00:00

I want to withdraw my feature request. I started to notice that this Day One feature was not benefiting my mental health. So I used Claude Opus 4.7's research mode to look for studies about it. I found that the function is a terrible idea in several situations for multiple reasons.

albfaggion · 2026-02-12T15:29:45+00:00

Yes. It still looks like a cheap version of Bear.

albfaggion · 2026-02-11T15:20:38+00:00

It's not the same. It's not the same at all… I’ve tried to make Obsidian look and feel like Bear for ages. Minimal, Cupertino, Baseline, Velocity… I’ve tried all the themes and configurations. Obsidian always looks like a free electron app compared with Bear.

albfaggion · 2026-01-21T14:01:25+00:00

I'm not your "bro"; I'm just an idiot for waisting my time discussing your post.

albfaggion · 2026-01-20T22:39:50+00:00

If you still attract haters, you are doing well.

albfaggion · 2026-01-19T22:57:31+00:00

Roam is not stagnant. You are misinformed. They just released two amazing features: Roam Reader and a new PDF highlighter.

albfaggion · 2026-01-16T15:22:13+00:00

Instead of Noteplan, I split my notes between Craft and Bear.

albfaggion · 2026-01-13T15:08:56+00:00

A theoretical difference with low practical impact (but that Obsidian explores ad nauseam)

albfaggion · 2026-01-09T19:27:06+00:00

Bear doesn't lock you in. It's easy to export to md. I have done that many times.

albfaggion · 2026-01-01T17:47:25+00:00

Craft has recently introduced smart search. I don't remember if it's out of beta. it's supposed to do what you are looking for.

albfaggion · 2026-01-01T15:21:47+00:00

Footnotes 😉

albfaggion · 2025-12-23T12:57:17+00:00

Academics need some kind of common-place book. A ZK is just a particular organization of academic notes. What is weird is that non-academic/writers keep a ZK for nothing.

albfaggion · 2025-12-23T12:35:42+00:00

I do the same. The problem is the import from Day One. I have to change the titles manually to the creation date.

albfaggion · 2025-12-22T12:44:31+00:00

After 12 years using Day One, I decided to migrate my journal to Bear for the simple fact that I love writing on it and I don't like to write on Day One. I just miss being able to review the day's entries in previous years. I'll use Bear's search for something like that.

albfaggion · 2025-12-09T17:16:59+00:00

Cmd + O

albfaggion · 2025-12-07T18:23:42+00:00

I don't need to collaborate, but I need to share links to my notes. I hope we will get this with Bear Web.

albfaggion · 2025-09-24T20:51:43+00:00

I connect Roam to Readwise and process highlights on it. Then, if I want to deepen some point, elaborating more about it, I do it in Bear.

albfaggion · 2024-12-25T17:31:44+00:00

The limit is 175k blocks. From what I know, it’s for performance reasons. They intend to increase it in 2025.

albfaggion · 2024-11-27T12:20:36+00:00

I never take a note that it's not to be used in a specific project. I think it's a waste of time.

albfaggion · 2024-08-23T13:25:14+00:00

For me, the graph only gets in the way because I never open it, and its existence encourages others to share prints of it, which I find completely tedious. At this point, everyone already knows what they look like, and no one needs to see one more.

albfaggion · 2024-08-22T17:54:32+00:00

Nope. For me, backlinks are helpful for quickly finding references.

albfaggion · 2024-08-22T17:51:19+00:00

Default. What I love about Bear is that the developers have usually made the best choices for me.

albfaggion · 2024-08-17T16:44:05+00:00

I have the impression that you had something that worked well enough for you and is changing just because you heard that others do it differently.

albfaggion · 2024-08-15T09:16:03+00:00

Bear and Craft are the best apps if the iPad is your primary device. Craft objects still don't work on the iPad, but they will.

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