Please add support for an explicit page-break marker- such as iA Writer’s +++ or repurposing the standard horizontal rule --- — to trigger pagination when exporting Bear notes to PDF.

Context & Motivation

Currently, it is impossible to directly export a long Bear note into a polished, publication-ready PDF without awkward, accidental page breaks - so you have to output your Bear note to say Word, go into Word to add pagination, then export from Word to a PDF. When you need to change some words, you either do this in Bear and have to redo all the pagination in Word again - or to save time you make the changes in the Word document - so now your Bear note is obsolete….

While Bear excels at beautiful note organization, professional document workflows require manual layout control. Competitors like iA Writer and Ulysses realized early on that true pagination support is essential for long-form creators who export to PDF, and they both support this feature.

Utilizing either a unique +++ marker or repurposing the standard Markdown thematic break (---) would allow us to isolate chapters, title pages, and sections with perfect page breaks upon export, without altering the clean layout of the note editor.

Proposed Implementation

• The Marker: Support +++ on an empty line, or natively parse the standard horizontal rule --- as a page boundary driver.
• The Output: Upon PDF export, the marker is hidden, and the subsequent text is broken onto a new page.
• Settings Toggle: To respect Markdown purists who use horizontal rules strictly for visual separation, add a toggle in Settings > Export (e.g., "Treat Horizontal Rules as Page Breaks in PDF") to turn this parsing On/Off.

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One used to be able to search Bear on partial tags, eg #world instead of the full tag #worldaffairs.  This doesn’t work anymore. It’s a real pain, as you now have to remember whether a tag was spelt #book or #books to be able to search on it. 

Bear says they changed how the tag search behaves “because some users pointed out that it can produce undesirable results in some scenarios”.

This unexpected change is a real nuisance when searching with tags.  I have over two hundred tags for my research notes, and now I have to remember exactly how I spelt them (often they’re abbreviations) to search on them - sometimes having to now waste time scrolling through my tag list to track them down first, instead of just typing in the first few letters.

It’s also a nuisance having to type in the complete tag every time for long tag names. For example, I now have to type out tags like #SoloJournallingRPGs in full every time. This gets especially laborious when you have to search on multiple long tags throughout the day

I also have many sets of tags based on the old behaviour - eg tags #Top1, #Top2, #Top3 etc - whereas before I could just type in #Top into search to see the notes for all of them, this ability is now gone.  (I realise I could do the same with nested tags, but this was simpler and less cluttered - and now I have to recode dozens of sets of tags using this).

It would be great if Bear could go back to the way their UI used to work for searching with tags.