@matteo, since you mentioned that your second goal is to understand missing features, I’ll share a few more persistent hobby horses which create trouble for me day-to-day. I know these things are (rightly) not your priority; just offering in case it’s helpful.
- I’m writing more and more inline LaTeX in my notes; missing support here will (alas) probably eventually make me move to another tool.
- I often use Bear as an outliner. I know that this isn’t really an intended primary use case, but two elements which could really help here are folding (thrilled to have this!!!) and structural move operations—i.e. variants of “move up” and “shift right” which act on the current subtree rather than the current node in isolation.
- My note titles are long enough that they’re often indistinguishable in the wiki-link type-ahead completion panel, which shows only a few words at a time. I often end up needing to switch to the library window, doing a search, finding a longer distinctive substring, then switching back to the original note to complete the link. A multiline layout would be very welcome!
- To avoid taking my hands off the keyboard, I really want a command which opens the link under the cursor (and ideally, when Opt is held, it’s opened in a new window). I’ve tried to implement this myself, but I can’t get at quite enough info via Accessibility APIs.
- I find myself wanting block-level transclusion with some frequency, e.g. when referring in synthesis notes to excerpts from user research transcripts or book notes.