I did some tests, and looks like I can get nice clean exports in a variety off formats, with Markdown being one that I’m confident I can migrate to another tool, or even just arrange in the filesystem and reference that way. I’ve seen too many software applications die (Yojimbo) or evolve in a way I didn’t like (Evernote). I like Markdown, and really like the idea that my notes are in a very tool-agnostic format. One big factor is that Bear essentially uses Markdown. I gave Bear another look, considering my unhappiness with Evernote’s direction, and decided to migrate off of Evernote and onto Bear. I’d looked into Bear a while back, but concluded that its web clipping was basic, and Evernote’s is impressive, so while Bear was beautiful, I didn’t feel compelled to make the move. They are also heading in the “more bloat” direction, and when they went to their new-generation apps, they dropped a couple features I liked.Īnd then, the aforementioned friend put up a blog post about her move from Evernote to Bear! They have addressed that for the most part, but now the Mac app has become a little flaky. I didn’t want to make this transition, but Yojimbo was being sunset, so I had to make a change, and a friend convinced me Evernote was the solution.Īnd Evernote has been a good tool, although for a very long time the iPhone app was unusably slow IMHO.

A long time back, I migrated from my beloved Yojimbo to Evernote.

Replace evernote with bear