I’m one of the beta testers, and I just wanted to share some early impressions—and encourage the team behind it.

Lettera genuinely feels like it fills a gap I’ve had for years. Conceptually, I love the idea of lightweight, portable Markdown files, and that approach makes even more sense now that so much of our work involves AI tools, prompts, drafts, research, and text moving between different applications.

I’ve always resisted Obsidian a little. It’s powerful, obviously, but it can quickly become an overwhelming, complex machine—especially if you just want to write, organize notes, and work with your files without building an entire system around them.

On the other end, apps like Typora are great editors, but they don’t feel particularly approachable for people who aren’t hardcore Markdown users.

Lettera seems to hit a really compelling middle ground: the simplicity of a notes app with a vault, while still letting you open and work on individual files whenever you want. No unnecessary friction, no need to over-engineer your workflow—just clean, flexible Markdown.

Honestly, this feels like the kind of app we need in 2026.

Really excited to see where it goes. Keep up the great work, Shiny Frog team.

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.

👀 😳 🫰💡💡💡

👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/bearapp/comments/7k55y9/any_plans_to_searchfilter_tags/

After using Bear for years, I only just discovered that you can drag the Table of Contents out of the Info Panel on the mac app and keep it floating beside your notes—and it stays available as you move between notes.

On Mac, just drag the Table of Contents popover out of the Info Panel and position it wherever you like.

I use the Table of Contents every day, so discovering that I could detach it and keep it visible all the time was a bit of a revelation. I can’t believe I missed this feature for so long!

Hopefully this helps someone else who didn’t know it was possible.

>To save your time, this post is for the people who are struggling to catch up with their ideas, thoughts and notes in note-taking apps, if you are not one of those, you can skip it :)

Bear is fast, but I built a quick capture app that lets me capture even faster.

I've been juggling Bear with a handful of other note and task apps over the years, and one thing kept annoying me: every app has a different capture workflow.

Some apps are slow to open. Some make it awkward to append to an existing note. Others are great at one thing but not another. I found myself spending more time thinking where to capture than actually capturing.

So I ended up building ⚡Supasend. It's like a Quick capture for Bear app. It started as a personal tool to give me one consistent capture flow regardless of which app I wanted the note to end up in.

Bear is already fast. I wasn't trying to make it faster. I was trying to make capturing into Bear require fewer decisions.

What can you do on Bear app from Supasend?

• Capture Rolling date notes like Daily notes(ex: 2028-08-07)
• Capture notes in Top or bottom order of an existing document
• Capture each new note in every new document.
• Capture between apps from the same screen(Bear for notes, other apps for tasks)
• & many more...

Capture Rolling date notes like Daily notes(ex: 2028-08-07) in Bear

https://i.redd.it/os4fq4ylryhh1.gif

Capture notes in Top or bottom order of an existing document in Bear

Top or Bottom order of notes

Capture between apps from the same screen(Ex: Bear for notes, Things for tasks)

https://i.redd.it/p21cfxk5vyhh1.gif

What would you like to see next for the Bear integration in Supasend? I'm always looking for ideas to make the workflow smoother, so I'd love to hear your suggestions. 🙏

Does anyone have an extra invite for Lettera? Been wanting something like this in Bear, and I was happy to see ShinyFrog working on it, but missed the invite window :(