Given the devs have been very generous in replying to other messages and threads over the past week or so, I guess I will have to conclude from the lack of engagement with this one that this is not on the agenda. A shame. My feeling would be that there are enough examples of deletion through user error, sync conflict issues, and simply the security and usefulness of being able to navigate back through changes for this to be a worthwhile addition to Bear. And one that would further differentiate it from Apple Notes. For reference, Obsidian, Reflect, Evernote, and many others all have some kind of the note version control/navigation that I am (and from the thread others are) interested in.
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I agree. The lack of version control has caused me trouble that’s easily reversed in other apps, including those you mentioned.
I have a similar issue with the fact that Undo does not “undo” the modification date, as it does in other apps.
I do understand from other posts that there are technical challenges to overcome, but I’m speaking as a user.
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I think we have replied to threads about this subject. We intend to support note versioning by implementing the CRDT technology. We are pretty advanced in CRDT implementation, but we lack the UI part for Version history and a lot of testing. Right now, our main focus is on Bear Web, and I don’t see ourselves shipping version history before its release.
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Many thanks for the reply. And apologies for not fully catching this earlier re the CRDT. Appreciate you all and the hard work that this (as well as Web!) involves.