While I use Obsidian at work (mostly because of not having access to the App Store), I could get around how janky Obsidian is. It’s VSCode for writing, which is as distasteful as that sounds.

I have since then more or less stayed in Bear, with some daily logging in Day One. Today, 

 2.0 released, with pretty much all of the features I wanted from Obsidian, but with a nice, native UI, and native speed, and mobile and watch apps that are… native. I think you see where this is going.

The big features they added that I adore:

There are other odds and ends that would make me adore it even more (typewriter mode!), but hopefully all of the changes that went into Bear 2 means it will be easier to make further changes going forward.

Bear 2.0

In the past I’ve kept lists of apps to install for new Macs/PCs/iOS devices, but usually on scraps of paper. I figured this might be useful to someone else, or my future self, so now I just 

In the past I’ve kept lists of apps to install for new Macs/PCs/iOS devices, but usually on scraps of paper. I figured this might be useful to someone else, or my future self, so now I just [have them on a page on this site](/tools-i-use).

The Tools I Use

Let him who hath understanding reckon the markdown of the bear

Markdown is going on tonight

I've gone back and forth on where to journal things for a while, but I've been using the MacOS/iOS/iPadOS/WatchOS app 

 for two years now. And I know it's been two years, because Day One has a feature where it shows you what happened “on this day” in previous years, and yesterday was the first day it had an entry from two years ago. And no, the entry wasn't “the end of 2020 is going to be terrible!”, it was about a job interview, which became theme in 2019.

I'm not going to say Day One is the perfect app, and I generally don't like apps with recurring fees, but it does a few things really well:

It has some silly features, like prompts. Some are interesting, others are like this:

, a service they offer. I back it up, you can export the whole thing to HTML. Should I print it? Maybe. I’ll make a note today and see how I feel in two years.

I've been using the MacOS/iOS/iPadOS/WatchOS app Day One for two years now. And I know it's been two years, because Day One has a feature where it shows you what happened “on this day” in previous years, and yesterday was the first day it had an entry from two years ago.

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Bear 2.0

The Tools I Use

Markdown is going on tonight

Day One (two, three, seven-hundred and thirty...)