My experience with Notes in the past had been frustrated by poor syncing that led to data loss on multiple occasions. I’d been unhappy with the clunky state of Evernote at the time iOS 9’s Notes was unveiled. That changed in June 2015, when Apple introduced a revamped Notes app for iOS and macOS. For a time, there weren’t many worthwhile alternatives for Apple users to explore. New features and tangential apps added over time created bloat and became distractions.
But as the service grew larger, it became a less efficient tool for the core task of viewing and creating notes. It once reigned as king of note-taking services, successfully blossoming in an increasingly mobile world.
So I took another look at Evernote, just over a year after having left it.Evernote has a long and storied history. Surely Evernote must have improved if someone could look at Bear, a beautifully-designed app, and see it as cluttered and confusing in comparison. She couldn’t forward her emails to it, the Bear web clipper was too simple, and the interface seemed cluttered and confusing to her. It worked well too, but I just didn’t love using it.Įventually, as my girlfriend’s Evernote subscription ended, she asked me to transfer her notes to the system I was uysing, so I imported all her notebooks to Bear. I spent some time working in Notebook by ZOHO as well, which touts itself as the perfect Evernote replacement.
Each app offered something I really needed, but lacked something else. I was a bit of a mess, but I couldn’t really decide on which program I liked the best, and I could no longer use Penultimate because I was no longer using Evernote. And then I switched back and forth between the Apple Notes app, GoodNotes, Paper by 53, and Noteshelf 2 for my handwriting needs. So I used Bear for all my typed notes, PDF storage, and the like. I missed the handwriting integration (I have an iPad Pro) and even when they added sketching, it wasn’t a feasible feature for longform note-taking.
I found this article on The Verge about Bear, and I fell in love with the aesthetic (something very important to me - I need to enjoy looking at the app I use the most every day) and it seemed to have good functionality.
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