# How many of us use Bear for engineering or technical note taking?

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/how-many-of-us-use-bear-for-engineering-or-technical-note-taking/12587>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 16, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/how-many-of-us-use-bear-for-engineering-or-technical-note-taking/12587 "2024-05-16T17:19:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![coder\_mom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/coder_mom/32/4768_2.png) [@coder\_mom](https://community.bear.app/u/coder_mom)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/how-many-of-us-use-bear-for-engineering-or-technical-note-taking/12587/1 "2024-05-16T17:19:49Z")

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One of the main reasons that made Bear standout for me when I adopted it 5 years ago was the feature to write code snippets with the language syntax highlighting. Now I am aware its a markdown feature, but still, a HUGE asset for my note taking. So I always wondered how big of a chunk of Bear’s user base consists of engineers (or any personnel that work in any IT capacity) use Bear.

Btw - Thanks to Bear developers for the recent features. Especially loving the tables, ability to size photos and hide the markdown. ❤

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**Author:** ![mikeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@mikeyman](https://community.bear.app/u/mikeyman)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/how-many-of-us-use-bear-for-engineering-or-technical-note-taking/12587/2 "2024-05-16T17:25:22Z")

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+1  
And I need to use twenty chars for an answer.

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**Author:** ![crinkles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@crinkles](https://community.bear.app/u/crinkles)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/how-many-of-us-use-bear-for-engineering-or-technical-note-taking/12587/3 "2024-05-16T17:44:49Z")

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Yes definitely use it for technical writing, storing some code snippets, some ELI5 or TL;DR versions of certain engineering concepts (e.g. how does garbage collection work in a given language).

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**Author:** ![wontgetsupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/43a26b/32.png) [@wontgetsupper](https://community.bear.app/u/wontgetsupper)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/how-many-of-us-use-bear-for-engineering-or-technical-note-taking/12587/4 "2024-05-16T18:29:12Z")

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+1  
I use it for research, meeting notes, prepping technical documentation and small core snippets

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**Author:** ![Askirom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Askirom](https://community.bear.app/u/Askirom)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/how-many-of-us-use-bear-for-engineering-or-technical-note-taking/12587/5 "2024-05-16T19:39:51Z")

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+1

I use it a lot too for meetings, email prewriting and documentation. I even write documents that I then transfer to word.