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Apple users may want to check the note taking, hierarchical tagging, page scraping and very hacker friendly iOS and macOS app Bear: https://bear.app. I'm a paying customer but there's also a free version.



Yeah I use it too and it has worked great. It's just markdown, the data is easy to export and the search works well so it's easy to find anything that I drop in there.

They also have a new alpha with an improved editor https://bear.app/alpha/


Mind sharing what features in particular make it hacker friendly? By page scraping, do you mean how it fetches the page title when you paste a link, or have I been missing out on some awesome advanced feature?


For me 3 things make it hacker friendly:

* it uses a markdown like syntax

* all syntactic characters (bold, italic, headline, tags, ...) are always displayed and not converted to rich text format (such as Slack does) while still applying the visual formatting. Like in a code editor, I see all characters which I type

* its underlying SQLite database is documented so that you can integrate/automate to your desire: https://bear.app/faq/Where%20are%20Bear's%20notes%20located/


Very cool, thanks for elaborating! Looks like that alpha has an improved (github flavored) markdown implementation too




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