I have a great deal of difficulty in moving to yet another app (Bear in this case) as it took me more than a year to move everything from Evernote to Apple Notes.
my question is: with iOS 26 there’s the possibility to import markdown files in apple notes, and so I did and it seems to work just fine, with searchability and all. Sure you have to manually sort them into categories but it takes nothing as they are numbered and it’s a one time job.
Am I missing something? Does Bear provide additional features that I’m not getting so far? (I know the site JD site has an “open in Bear” link but is that the only benefit?
That’s great news if Apple has finally enabled some sort of decent import. In v1 of Life Admin, when the downloads were just a .zip file that I manually generated, I spent a lot of time trying to work out a format that would import and not look terrible. (As in, the text was all in 8pt Times New Roman. It was punitively bad.)
But if Apple now supports that natively that’s terrific. You can either create folders (per category) and move IDs into them, or you can use #hashtags to roughly the same effect.
If you’re already all-in on Apple Notes, no need to change! I want to make your life easier, not give you more busywork.
For everyone’s information, ‘Open in Bear’ and ‘Open in Obsidian’ are possible because those apps provide a URL scheme whereby you can open a note based on the note’s title. Of course I know the note’s title, so basically (simplified):
bear://open?11.11 Birth certificate
will open a note.
Apple Notes doesn’t support this, so I have no way to give you an ‘Open in Apple Notes’ link.
You could create a shortcut that opens an Apple Note by it’s title? A shortcut can have a url and you would only need to add the title as an input parameter.
Ah, nice one. I’m just in the middle of a JDHQ redesign/feature upgrade, I’ll save this link and will make that Shortcut available for download if that’s okay?
