From my comment on The Information's "Tech Execs Are Obsessing Over Note-Taking Apps. We Tested Them Out:"

I'd add a possibly-relevant recommendation: Typora is a Markdown editor with left sidebar file sorting, very much like Bear (several available themes can make it look actually identical, in fact,) but without its native iCloud-based file syncing. It is cross-platform, open-source, and definitely more powerful, though. Like many staff/readers of The Information, I'm sure, I demand a lot from word processing/notetaking software and basically never evangelize a single application as much as I have Bear/Typora.

If I ran MacOS, I'm sure I would hole up in Bear and never leave again, but us Windows users, it's notable that porting Bear is basically impossible for various technical reasons I did not understand until a Mastodon friend explained, recently. A web version - which Bear confirmed it's working on, again, on Twitter - looks like the closest thing we're gonna get.

I really love this sort of conversation so thanks!

From [Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips](https://bilge.world/poweruser-tips-software-shortcuts'):

Typora is an infinitely-customizable markdown editor spanning all platforms that's managed to become my primary word processor (and I'm someone who demands a lot from word processors.) It's immensely powerful in all the important ways - my use over the past two years has stress tested it with both enormous (100,000+ words) and extremely complicated (100+ images and embeds) documents. It's able to export even these chunkos to any format you can imagine instantaneously and never crashes. I used to recommend it as an alternative to Bear, but honestly, I think it's better.

Uses This / Navneet Alang

• [ ] The extent of Typora's Import/Export capabilities - including PDFs, Media Wiki files, RTF, HTML, etc.
• [ ] I use Typora to clean all types of text - whenever I copy something from the web that seems like it might include tricky formatting, I paste it in a Typora window first, re-copy it from there, and most often find the result pastes perfectly wherever else I may be doing so - retaining the good formatting information, without the junk.
• [ ] One potential downside - though it’s very unlikely that you’ll encounter it - is that Typora will refuse to open some files if they’re too big. Haven’t figured out the exact threshold.
• [ ] Ctrl+Tab cycles through open documents across desktops.
• [ ] In theory, I could probably rig up Typora's upload images function (‣) to upload directly to Snap.as.

Typora's Pie Dark theme which either hadn't come out before or I somehow managed to miss the installation folder.

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