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I love this! It is like you have taken all the things I want from Obsidian (plus plug-ins) and made them into a single, well designed app. Great! Feedback: *

I love this! It is like you have taken all the things I want from Obsidian (plus plug-ins) and made them into a single, well designed app. Great! Feedback: * This is so good you should find a way to keep it open source but also profit from it so you can develop it full-time. You could just have an official app version - I would pay for that. * Feature creep. I am a big fan of Bear App for it's wonderful simple design, although I stopped using it because it doesn't work on markdown files directly. What I've seen is that equivalent apps/services (including Obsidian, Notion, Craft) are continuously adding new features. You've already got all the core features I think - try to avoid feature creep, and keep it focused on just doing the core things really well, like Bear App does.

lucaronin 5mo ago
big fan of Bear! It was a big influence for Tolaria — that's why you like it! thank you for the great feedback mate
- jwr 5mo ago
  Why did you build something different? What was the motivation compared to Bear? I'm a heavy Bear user, recently migrating most stuff to Drafts. My problems with Bear is that it's getting slow and I don't have easy direct access to my text data. But it does have apps for all devices and drag&drop images are really useful for lab/electronics work…
  - james-bcn 5mo ago
    For me the main issue with Bear is that it does not work with a directory of Markdown files, but locks them away in a database. If you worked directly on markdown files it would be nearly perfect. They did make a standalone markdown editor called Panda, but didn't pursue it for some reason.
- ianberdin 5mo ago
  Yeah, so sad it is dead. I mean it works, but no more high progress. So it is a legacy. But it worked so fast and smooth :( At the same time Craft is too focused to replace Google Docs with swipes. Feels weird. So have to use Notion from phone and VSCode with Claude code on computer. I miss normal implementation of Claude code on my phone :( I really wish to have always computer and access to it maybe. Official Claude code iOS app works weird.
alwillis 5mo ago
Bear just got a cli, MCP support and a Claude connector [1]. [1]: https://blog.bear.app/2026/04/bear-2-8-bearcli-claude-connector-and-mcp-server/ https://blog.bear.app/2026/04/bear-2-8-bearcli-claude-connec...

lucaronin 5mo ago

big fan of Bear! It was a big influence for Tolaria — that's why you like it! thank you for the great feedback mate

jwr 5mo ago
Why did you build something different? What was the motivation compared to Bear? I'm a heavy Bear user, recently migrating most stuff to Drafts. My problems with Bear is that it's getting slow and I don't have easy direct access to my text data. But it does have apps for all devices and drag&drop images are really useful for lab/electronics work…
- james-bcn 5mo ago
  For me the main issue with Bear is that it does not work with a directory of Markdown files, but locks them away in a database. If you worked directly on markdown files it would be nearly perfect. They did make a standalone markdown editor called Panda, but didn't pursue it for some reason.
ianberdin 5mo ago
Yeah, so sad it is dead. I mean it works, but no more high progress. So it is a legacy. But it worked so fast and smooth :( At the same time Craft is too focused to replace Google Docs with swipes. Feels weird. So have to use Notion from phone and VSCode with Claude code on computer. I miss normal implementation of Claude code on my phone :( I really wish to have always computer and access to it maybe. Official Claude code iOS app works weird.

alwillis 5mo ago

Bear just got a cli, MCP support and a Claude connector [1]. [1]: https://blog.bear.app/2026/04/bear-2-8-bearcli-claude-connector-and-mcp-server/ https://blog.bear.app/2026/04/bear-2-8-bearcli-claude-connec...