Comment by agos
8 days ago
I didn’t know they did this change which means it’s time to think about migrating away from bear. Which is a pity because the software itself is rock solid
8 days ago
I didn’t know they did this change which means it’s time to think about migrating away from bear. Which is a pity because the software itself is rock solid
Yes, I feel the same. A rock solid app dismantled by just one developer choice. Still I won't diss the devs because it's their choice but "a text note" is the last thing I would want "locked" in a sqlite db and bear is a "plain text note taking app" really. So just sad.
Is SQLite really "locked in"?
It's possible most ubiquitous open source software ever (far more common than markdown) and your notes exist in fully readable text form inside it
Bear being proprietary is the real threat of lock in
From memory the sqlite3 API is something like
I use sqlite3 to load and query random CSVs all the time. It feels a bit weird to hear data described as "locked" within a SQLite DB, because it's one of the simplest non-text formats for me to read data from. It would surprise me of it took more than five minutes to set up a one-way cron job to dump your notes into plain text files.
My god! Really? What is this subthread now - bear app fan version of discussions.apple.com?
This is just unbelievable! Fucking pitchforks are out literally!
I am dealing with plain text notes and you all want me to write sql queries and scripts to access those fucking text files?
Are you all (these few people who just jumped in the subthread) pulling some sort of prank of so?
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