9/5/2023 0 Comments Bear vs ia writer![]() ![]() It was where all my ideas got written down, fleshed out, shared. I’d used it in the past after seeing early coverage on MacStories, but trying it out this spring, it seemed like the perfect app for my needs.įor several months, Bear was instrumental in my workflow, across all my devices. Zach Latta used to use a Git repo + Vim from his desktop (& Vim on his iPhone over mosh/ Blink, but that’s another story), but once he found Bear, switched. I’d rather do the longer-form writing it’s designed for. iA Writer is an incredible text editor, but doesn’t feel right for quick notes/journal entries.(This was iOS 12, so they used URL schemes & were slow/inflexible.) Sometimes I’d forget or something’d go wrong. I can write as many Shortcuts as I want, but that doesn’t make running them not a pain.I often wouldn’t do it, so then I couldn’t edit notes on any other device until I did that. Committing every change was a big pain.Having constant backups beyond iCloud, via GitHub, was awesome too. Portability was awesome, just regular plain text files.This setup was mostly awesome, but had a few major shortcomings: Had a custom web instance of Mullog for viewing/editing online, which I never used & eventually took down. ![]() Wrote various Shortcuts for adding images, creating new journal entries/notes, committing/pushing.Using Working Copy’s Files integration, set brain as an external location in iA Writer.brain repository stored on GitHub, cloned in Working Copy.This setup was based on the same idea, but set up for iOS. I’ve used Git to keep track of files on my Mac for years. System 1: Working Copy + iA Writer + Shortcuts + GitHub I’ve used primarily two note-taking systems in 2019 so far, but a few months ago I switched to a third. ![]()
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