News, updates, and discussions about Lettera, our native, file-based Markdown editor for macOS.
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Lettera is a native, refined Markdown editor for macOS. Built for writers, researchers, developers, and anyone who works with documents, from a quick blog draft to a complete technical documentation system.
We are excited to get Lettera in your hands, and we’d love to hear what you think about it. Feel free to share how you are using Lettera, ask questions, start a discussion, or just say hi.
Lettera is a remake of Obsidian; let’s not pretend otherwise. Out of the box, Obsidian is easy to use, free, and works on any platform. So, why try to reinvent the wheel? Bear has a great niche. Integrate what Lettera can do into Bear’s options. Improve the Bear interface, but work with what works.
I disagree. I use Obsidian to store notes, but it’s not a Mac-native text editor with the features I want in a text editor. If it’s good enough for you, that’s fine. But the fact that there are so many text editors available for Mac shows that most people don’t agree with you.
I appreciate differences, but you really can’t say most people don’t agree. Bear has a user community of under five thousand. Obsidian has over a million. My comment is to strengthen Bear, which does have a viable niche.
I’m not talking about Bear users, I’m talking about people who use text editors. If that wasn’t who the developers were targeting, there would be reason to make this app. In fact, they might see it as a way to attract new users to Bear.
You see Lettera as a text editor? I think BBEdit, CotEditor, and Whisk have that market on Mac. CotEditor is free, has an outline view, and happily works with Markdown. What is it exactly that Lettera brings that other editors do not? And should that set be an independent app that potentially cannibalizes Bear or should it be Bear 3.0?
I should add that I did not make it to the beta list in time, so I am only going off of the features mentioned by the developers.
It is a text editor; I mean, the first post in this thread makes it clear. It’s not a note-taking app like Bear, or like Obsidian for that matter.
I have been using iA Writer for a long time, but the idea of having wysiwyg markdown is quite appealing. For that reason alone, I would be tempted to switch.
Bear is a synced notes, personal knowledge manager database. It stores notes in its own database and organizes them primarily by tags rather than folders. It is a cross‑device notes app (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, plus a web version) with iCloud‑based note sync.
Lettera is a file‑based Markdown document editor. Lettera is designed to sit directly on top of an existing directory structure. It is currently a macOS‑only application focused on writing workflows. Essentially a Bear‑style editor, but pointed at arbitrary files and folders instead of a proprietary notes database.
Both use the same modern Bear 2 editor: WYSIWYG‑style Markdown, syntax hiding while not editing, tables, footnotes, ToC, images, code, math, and rich export formats like PDF and ePub.
If you are on the beta team, then I yield to your insights regarding Lettera. (But, ugh, that name has got to go. Given the sits on top of files, how about: Polar.)
Your comment is inaccurate and unhelpful. Please focus on the betterment of the product, not on making assumptions about me, my attitude, and what I realize. I would prefer to not hear from you again.
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