with (fabulous) workspaces: need for way to search 'tags' (folders/workspaces) has only grown!
This is a repeat, but actualized around the new + fabulous workspaces function:
The biggest structural 'hole' in Bear remains: it loads a lot onto tags as structuring layer.
Before tags were a binary actually of tags *and* folders. In bear the carry both functions: marking up and generalizing, and sorting (indeed carrying ones whole mental model/ordering system).
The role of 'finding one's way' through the Bear tags is even greater and aggravated by the fact that Bear is a single all-in-container by design. This remains true.
But now we have workspaces. They are fabulous!
They add/load a third virtual structure onto tags, as some tags will be salient candidates to become workspaces.
This is pretty much depending on design of ones tag-system. Still I would hold in any (at least: most) tag systems, there will be certain tags better suited to function as workspace than others – and indeed a lot of people will redesign their tag-system given the workspace function is a transformational one.
– I´d even say, workspaces will incentivize people to go for 'flat tagging systems' now; but that is my personal take, and not too relevant to the overall point.
The overall point being:
The structural miss of Bear – allowing to freely(!) search only 2 of its three layers/components (note and note list/set) but not it´s organizationals layer (tags; think also: folders/workspaces) has only become more visible and consequential.
There is no straightforward way, other than memorizing or eyeball browsing, to find elements/units/containers of ones organizational structure and system (tags).
I still hope this fundamental lack will at some point be identified and acknowledged.
And hopefully we get a solution worthy of Bear-aesthetics too.
Now with Workspaces my hope – and need – has only grown; from enormous to gigantic.
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Edit: just looked for threads on this, some I also started years ago to underline/reference the case for this. I think a simple search for "search tags" in the reddit will give everyone an idea, … so I skip linking 🙂
‼️ But a worthwhile find: a statement from team member 9 yr ago(!) reads like this:
>You mean something to filter the tag lits? Sounds like a good idea to find a specific tag when the list if too long.
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👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/bearapp/comments/7k55y9/any_plans_to_searchfilter_tags/