We are so honored to be mentioned in the WWDC24 keynote! It was such a wonderful surprise to see Bear featured in the showcase of third-party usage for Apple Intelligence.
This week we will spend time discussing internally about how we can use this new technology and tools to help Bear go further. Privacy remains our core value at Shiny Frog but we are excited to see how Apple Intelligence develops in the coming months. Working on the OS compatibility in the coming weeks is also on the top of our list.
Check out the WWDC24 Keynote here at 1:39:07 and let us know how youād like to see Bear incorporate the advancements to help your note taking!
Yes, please. I would love the following in particular order:
AI-based summarisation and rewriting (available in the OS level)
Ability to sketch and it create an image from it would be great; unsure if it would work in Bear since thereās no inline sketch like AN
Ability to integrate with Image Playground so we can have custom emojis for tags etc
(This is in general)
Integrate with OS-level functions to do things like suggest tags, write notes, etc. even if the call is to chatGPT. I understand Shiny Frogs is privacy-focused, but let the users decide. If Apple allows the choice, I think itās a no-brainer.
This is general feedback: Sketching, while nice, is not at the par of GN or AN. It would be good to have some improvements when it comes to handwriting smoothing (like AN, and available via PencilKit, I imagine) and Math recognition.
As always, I appreciate your hard work, but we need the app to be (more) 2024, and thereās no one better poised to take the opportunity than you all, especially with the 2.0 release. Thank you!
The socalled writing tools - thatās how i understood Craig - are available automatically and without any development effort if bear allows it. As long as there are no security issues i do not see any reason not to allow these writing tools. While i really despise the features to let an ai rewrite/summarize your own thoughts, neverthelesse i would appreciate the proofreading inside the writing tools if the proofreadings quality is good. If others want to use the complete feature set of the writing tools why the shouldnāt be allowed as long as security is not affected?
So far i only see two features apart from the writing tools which i would like to have:
the genmojis (ai-created emojis) are cool for creating own emojis
Rather than showing the first few lines of a note as preview in the notes inside the article lists, a short and meaningful summarazition would be definetely more useful
As always, I appreciate your hard work, but we need the app to be (more) 2024, and thereās no one better poised to take the opportunity than you all, especially with the 2.0 release. Thank you!
iOS 18 has only just been presented, itās hard to say that Bear isnāt 2024 enough, especially after their appearance in the Keynote
It was a thread in soliciting feedback for incorporation to the so-called Apple Intelligence announcements. which has been all the craze. I prefers Appleās way of doing gen AI as a tool rather than a product and hence the 2024 comment.
Suggestion for the AI ārewordingā features that were demoād. Have the point of using the AI result be something you choose to either insert or replace.
Appleās demonstration showed it always replacing. That makes me nervous I could lose what Iāve already written.
Iāve always wanted to ask about voice recordings in Bear, but I havenāt done it because itās not that highly important to me. Iāll take this opportunity to ask about the possibility of adding a voice recording with subsequent transcription to the note, as in apple notes.
Give us everything that the native Apple Notes app has (minus math notes and smart script I suppose). I love Bear and Apple Notes, but Bear is more robust and has markdown support & more advanced features so I pay for and use it instead. I donāt want to feel like Iām missing out on anything with Bear vs. the native Notes app
Based on a quick read through Appleās developer documentation, is it a correct conclusion that the Apple Pencil handwriting cleanup (Smart Script) has not been exposed to third party developers like Bear to incorporate into their own apps?
I would LOVE to see that in Bear (along with smart shapes).
I think these ai-driven summarization and rewriting tools will eventually become standard for read-it-later and writing apps. I always liked how the Hemingway Editor did the proofread using highlighting and the proofread summary in the right-sidebar. It would be cool to see this technology used for more proofreading than heavy-handed rewrites.
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