Hi folks!
I love Bear for markdown note-taking. I’ve been advocating strongly that they should support Apple ADP so we get E2EE on our notes.
It looks like v2.4 (which should drop tomorrow) will support ADP! (source)
From the devs:
ADP will apply to all new notes, as well as any existing notes you edit. Attachments are already covered by ADP, so no worries there.
We don’t offer a built-in way to convert all old notes, but it’s easy to do if you want:
Just select your notes and make a small change, like toggling them to read-only and back, or pinning and unpinning, and they’ll sync under ADP.That said, we don’t recommend doing this for everything, since syncing a lot of notes at once can take time. You can always just update the notes you care about most.
Also, keep in mind: that enabling ADP means you won’t be able to use the web version of Bear.
This is a big win as users have spent the last few months advocating really strongly for ADP support (thread 1, thread 2).
I know Bear isn’t going to end up on the recommendations list since it isn’t open source. But it is really well designed software that I’m a big fan of, so I wanted to share here in case anyone else was tracking this journey.
I tried Standard Notes and I just couldn’t stand the user experience and design.