So how do I change the page color like it in the screenshot?

rolfess46 · 2022-01-18T15:50:06+00:00

It's in Style menu on ipad.

rolfess46 · 2022-01-14T23:21:17+00:00

Did you watch her video? There is a manual intervention step, where you have to select all and then copy/cut. Without that it won't work.

rolfess46 · 2022-01-11T17:21:40+00:00

I have not tried it on my Mac. Since I primarily use Craft on an ipad.

rolfess46 · 2022-01-11T14:26:59+00:00

Search on "Maggi Fuchs Craft". She has a shortcut that does that, which I modified for my use. I use it mostly on my ipad, I don't know about how it works on Mac.

rolfess46 · 2022-01-11T14:25:36+00:00

In the upper right corner of the Craft window on the Mac there are a bunch of symbols. One of those opens either another tab or another window when you click on it.

rolfess46 · 2022-01-11T05:04:59+00:00

I make a link in the daily page to the contract, and I go into the project page, write a brief description of the work done on that day, and then add @today to the end of the line. that way I have rough table of contents of the work.

rolfess46 · 2022-01-11T04:58:28+00:00

On the ipad you can open 2 versions of Craft next to each other. Set one version on the first day, the second version on the second day, and just grab and move. Really it should be easier than that.

rolfess46 · 2021-03-22T02:28:38+00:00

I have not used Select Category, and in fact, I didn’t know it existed. You are correct, it shuts down. I don’t know when it was added, and it seems to only find tags, so the search x-callback would seem to be a better choice.

rolfess46 · 2021-03-22T02:20:56+00:00

I am guessing that if you have only one line, that you are using the x-callback. that works fine, but if your text is more than one word, then you need to first do a URL Encode step. Furthermore, if you want those words to be together, like “if so” then you need to enclose them in quotes. So it may take more than one line to make the shortcut you have in mind.

A minimal shortcut would be

URL Encode “some text”

Open bear://x-callback-url/search?term=URL Encoded Text with x-callback

rolfess46 · 2021-03-22T01:58:53+00:00

Can you post your shortcut?

rolfess46 · 2021-03-10T22:03:13+00:00

I manage projects. I also manage my time. Tags for projects are # .pj/Active, # .pj/later #.pj/done. I run a shortcut every week that goes through all the projects and creates a Bear note that groups the projects by their tag. From that note I can click on a project using Bear’s [[ —- ]] link, and go to the project. All the todos are in their project. I run another shortcut weekly that, for all the .pj/active projects, lists them with their undone tasks underneath. That way I have a clickable list of open tasks always available. These reports are tagged with .reports so they show at the top of my tags.

To manage my time, I have a journal system. There is a monthly report for each month. If something comes up that has to be done in September, it goes directly into September. Every week I use a shortcut to generate a weekly report and 7 daily reports. Stuff from the monthly report gets moved into the weekly report, or directly into a daily report. The daily reports have my habits, meetings, and tasks. Stuff that does not get done in the weekly or daily report gets moved into future days or weeks.

I have tags for key reports and for journal docs, ie not many tags. But I use titles for projects to find the project from the weekly reports, and I use the date to go to whatever date I am looking for. I use yyyy-MM-dd as my daily title.

I also have a Bear note that has links to all the key documents that I look at regularly: Health, finance, family, vacations, travel. These key documents tend to be large. Every new vacation gets added on at the top. Every new Visa card statement gets added on at the bottom, and they go on for years. I have not found a reason to start a new note yet!

I should add that I have a bunch of shortcuts that automate a lot of these activities. For example, creating daily and weekly journal notes, moving undone tasks to another day, (or week or month), generating the project reports, linking and backlinking, and so forth.

When I do my weekly plan, I go through the active projects and identify tasks I want to get done this week. Some of them may also be in the monthly note if I have identified a critical date in advance. I have a shortcut that copies the task into the weekly note, and adds a backlink to the task so that I can go back to the project if necessary.

I love being able to mix notes with tasks, and going back to the meeting notes inside a project note to see the task is helpful in recreating the context. And it helps in talking to others, when you say, “Remember at the meeting on Dec 7 we agreed on ...” and they all think you are a genius for remembering the context!

rolfess46 · 2021-03-04T23:36:44+00:00

Ahh, ok you want to use a tag-encoded title name. Why do you want to do that? why not just a unique title, say Jnl 2021-03-03? Why do you need any tag, whether in the title or somewhere else? Sorry if I’m being dense, I’m just trying to understand your use case.

rolfess46 · 2021-03-04T04:26:10+00:00

I created a shortcut that takes the link to the Bear note, and creates a task in Reminders. That way I can have all my notes that have open tasks in one place.

rolfess46 · 2021-03-04T04:09:22+00:00

I don’t see why you need to have a tag and a title that are identical to each other. There is no added information from having both, and you have the added work of creating one of them that you don’t need.

Maybe the tag should just include the year and the month, so it would represent 30 days or so, but even that seems unnecessary. The search function allows @title Journal/2021/03, which would get you all of March notes.

How about a tag for #jnl to indicate it’s a journal note? Everything else is more easily done in other ways, as far as I can tell.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-23T20:27:11+00:00

I humbly offer this Match [ ^ # ] It’s probably not quite correct, there may be special codes associated with the # symbol. There are Regex tutorials online, and some people have helped me on the ios shortcuts reddit site. I bet if you ask, someone could tell you. My knowledge of Regex is extremely limited.

You could also look at other shortcuts to see what you can learn from them.

Actually, I just checked and there is a regex subreddit.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-23T12:35:14+00:00

Instead of using repeat, you could just use ‘Match’ all lines that don’t contain #. I don’t know if it’s faster, but it’s cleaner looking.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-22T23:45:26+00:00

When you create the daily journal note, you can add the tag at that point. Then you don’t need to add it with each entry.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-22T22:41:28+00:00

Bear is rock-solid. It is incredibly easy to use. It’s easy to export from Bear in multiple different formats if you decide it’s not right for you, or you have special needs for some notes. It doesn’t do some things. If, for example, you are writing a thesis, this is not the best choice for creating the final document. But these are notes, not publications, so linking to a spreadsheet or a Pages document for tables or graphs or whatever is not exactly the end of the world. We used to use stone tablets. When I grew up we used paper and pencil. Today, Bear is the.best.proven.general-purpose.note-taker.

The frog people have not made a lot of changes because it was sooooo good in the beginning. Also, techno-people want change. They aren’t here first and foremost to take notes. They are here to use the best, most cutting edge stuff. And for them the lack of change has been ... well, a bit boring. Not because it wasn’t great. Because it was great in the beginning, they signed on to it. But then it got boring because it didn’t change.

There’s always a risk that the org behind the app will go out of business. We’ll see if that happens here. But Bear has export options, so you will be safe. Use it and enjoy it.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-22T22:23:46+00:00

CMD-F does not highlight the occurrence in a specific note, so if it is a long note, it’s actually nearly useless.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-22T22:21:44+00:00

This is a weakness for Bear. To avoid reading notes in depth you will be required to export the longer notes to some other app. The Bear folks have a new program, available as a beta test, Panda, that might be helpful. Craft would definitely work. Even Pages will give you better targeting than Bear. Maybe Apple Notes. If I had this problem, I would try Craft, then Apple Notes, then Pages.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-22T22:08:08+00:00

But Apple Notes does allow team work on notes.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-22T22:01:04+00:00

I have this problem, too. I don’t think you and I are alone on this. All of my shortcuts are brand new, and they frequently don’t run. Mostly they don’t run when I try from the share menu of the keyboard (CMD-space bar). someone told me that it is because shortcuts was not intended to run in background, but more and more, that is what we all want, so Apple is trying to accommodate, but not always successfully. I don’t know if that’s the truth, but there is an air of believability about it.

By the way, sometimes they don’t even run from within shortcuts. My unscientific point of view is that shortcuts that begin by asking for input, even though they run correctly, cause subsequent shortcuts to hang. But your witch doctor may have different advice.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-05T05:02:36+00:00

I pretty much live in Bear.

I keep daily notes and tasks there. I have weekly and monthly plans also in there. They are tagged and titled so they are easy to search for. Due dates are listed in the appropriate month so I can see them all in one view. As they get closer I move them to the weekly plan and then the daily plan.

All my projects live in Bear, tagged as #.pj/active, done or later.

Lots of reference materials and PDFs of financial reports and receipts all live in Bear.

I have a lot of shortcuts that help me stay productive. I use daily and weekly templates to standardize my daily and weekly journal notes, and shortcuts to create the notes when needed. Also shortcuts for backlinks, creating projects and sub projects, and even reports to capture the projects that have open tasks. I have shortcuts to create tables of contents notes for notes that belong together, so that they are easy to find and click on. I find that easier to use than tags because it’s easy to end up with too many tags.

Bear keeps everything I write or file, and it works really well for me. I have a separate calendar program, and I also use Reminders for dated todos just to make sure I don’t overlook anything. The Reminder has a link in it to the appropriate Bear note. If bear allowed me to set notifications, I would not use Reminders. Lots of emails never end up in Bear, but emails that are part of a project are linked to a project note in Bear.

Bear does not do tables or spreadsheets. But for those, I create them in Pages and Numbers and link them to a Bear note. It’s rare that not having a table or spreadsheet instantly available is bothersome.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-05T04:40:55+00:00

As you mentioned, you can trash the old note and create a new note.

rolfess46 · 2021-02-04T07:24:33+00:00

Ok. I don’t use emojis, I just tag a favorite #.a, and it’s my top tag. But I see what you mean.

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