# Intial thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** Bear Web\ **Created:** [January 29, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781 "2025-01-29T19:28:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bolive](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/bolive/32/3160_2.png) [@bolive](https://community.bear.app/u/bolive)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/1 "2025-01-29T19:28:15Z")
First thing you guys have really knocked it out of the park. Really - you’ve done a fabulous job. I’ll begin going through it more this evening but I just wanted to tell you this. ---
**Author:** ![ffmich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ffmich/32/1515_2.png) [@ffmich](https://community.bear.app/u/ffmich)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/2 "2025-01-29T20:22:26Z")
I second this! First impressions are truly impressive! I’ll explore it more in-depth tomorrow on my Windows PC. I did notice a bug with the search feature and will open a dedicated topic to report it. ---
**Author:** ![rexikan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/rexikan/32/4117_2.png) [@rexikan](https://community.bear.app/u/rexikan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/3 "2025-01-30T08:27:40Z")
Thank you! It has been a lot of work, and we are glad to finally have something to show. ---
**Author:** ![ffmich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ffmich/32/1515_2.png) [@ffmich](https://community.bear.app/u/ffmich)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/4 "2025-01-30T15:36:19Z")
**A few more thoughts after a full day of using the app** Today, I spent a lot of time using the web app, copying code snippets, writing meeting notes, and more. I have to say, the web app is a real game changer! It makes it possible for me to fully transition to Bear for all my notes, though still doing regular backups until a notes history feature is implemented 😛 Synchronization works incredibly well, even better than device-to-device syncing. That said, I wanted to share some feedback about the features I missed the most: 1. **Full attachments support** (I know you’re already working on this, which is great!) 2. **Shortcuts for _BIU_** (e.g., Ctrl + B for bold, Ctrl + I for italics, etc.) 3. **Tagcons** : I find them super helpful for quickly locating tags in the sidebar, and I feel a bit lost without them. 4. **Flash of unstyled content** : I often see a flash of another font when opening a note before the correct font is loaded, even after the correct font is hopefully cached. 5. **Themes** : Themes can already be tweaked via session storage, so it feels like only the settings section is missing. 6. **Scrollbar styles** : Not urgent, but they’re pretty ugly right now. 😄 So, good job again! ---
**Author:** ![rexikan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/rexikan/32/4117_2.png) [@rexikan](https://community.bear.app/u/rexikan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/5 "2025-01-30T15:58:45Z")
Thanks for the feedback. Can you show a screenshot of the ugly scrollbars and describe what you expect instead? ---
**Author:** ![ffmich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ffmich/32/1515_2.png) [@ffmich](https://community.bear.app/u/ffmich)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/6 "2025-01-30T16:15:41Z")
When I said “ugly,” I just meant they are the default browser scrollbars 🙂, very heavy especially on the emoji selection dialog ![scrollbars](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/a/a7fe327057505e535bca94b3ffb30b66e8d8f830.png) I’d prefer a cleaner design, similar to what’s used in the desktop app. I’ve tried tweaking them with CSS. ![scrollbars-2](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/7/7363f60c136ec6cac04f1fb2b56f2b66a7111a14.png) ---
**Author:** ![rexikan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/rexikan/32/4117_2.png) [@rexikan](https://community.bear.app/u/rexikan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/7 "2025-01-30T16:29:07Z")
Right, thanks! I will add it to the list and we will see if we will change it. ---
**Author:** ![ffmich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ffmich/32/1515_2.png) [@ffmich](https://community.bear.app/u/ffmich)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/8 "2025-01-31T14:00:49Z")
Is it possible to use quick open in the webapp or isn’t available yet? ---
**Author:** ![bru](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/bru/32/179_2.png) [@bru](https://community.bear.app/u/bru)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/9 "2025-01-31T16:04:35Z")
Hi! No the quick open action is not available yet in the webapp. ---
**Author:** ![Atharva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@Atharva](https://community.bear.app/u/Atharva)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/10 "2025-02-01T13:17:22Z")
> [@ffmich](#): > > **Themes** : Themes can already be tweaked via session storage, so it feels like only the settings section is missing. Hi @ffmich , can you please guide on how to do this ? By default it’s in default light theme, and I’d like to have a dark theme on bear web. ---
**Author:** ![ffmich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ffmich/32/1515_2.png) [@ffmich](https://community.bear.app/u/ffmich)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/11 "2025-02-01T14:46:16Z")
Sure, but keep in mind that I don’t think it’s an “intended” interaction for the beta. I just did it for fun, but otherwise, I’m using the default Graphite themes. That said, here’s how you can do it: 1. Open Chrome Developer Tools (F12 or Cmd+Option+I). 2. Go to the **Application** tab. 3. Navigate to **Session Storage** and select `https://web.bear.app`. 4. Edit the `dark-theme` and `light-theme` values with the theme name you want to use. 5. Close dev tools and refresh the page Hope this helps! 😊 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/2/2b1bc2626eb35107e5df9e663e0bc239ecccb31f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![joshbranco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@joshbranco](https://community.bear.app/u/joshbranco)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/12 "2025-02-01T22:29:55Z")
This is really cool, thanks for sharing! ---
**Author:** ![bru](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/bru/32/179_2.png) [@bru](https://community.bear.app/u/bru)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 10:26am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/13 "2025-02-04T10:26:08Z")
Hi! We’re making progress on this, but it didn’t it into today’s release. We’re trying to find a solution that gives a consistent behaviour across all major browsers, although we know that we may need to compromise eventually. In the meantime, at least the unnecessary horizontal scrollbars are gone from the autocomplete menus. ---
**Author:** ![Geiir](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/geiir/32/5935_2.png) [@Geiir](https://community.bear.app/u/Geiir)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/14 "2025-02-04T20:00:59Z")
I was about to start looking for alternatives until a dev contacted me about the web beta. So far it has been working great! I can work on my notes and create new ones when at work stuck with Windows. Can’t wait to see the future of the web app! 🙌 ---
**Author:** ![ffmich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ffmich/32/1515_2.png) [@ffmich](https://community.bear.app/u/ffmich)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/15 "2025-02-07T13:48:23Z")
After more than a week of almost daily use across different browsers and operating systems, it’s time to share more feedback. - The most significant issues I’ve encountered involve **wikilinks**. Me and others have reported some bugs, and I know you’re already working on them (e.g., [app freeze](https://community.bear.app/t/bear-web-app-freezes-when-linking-to-notes/14877), [special chars and renaming issues](https://community.bear.app/t/clicking-on-a-wikilink-containing-a-slash-creates-a-new-note-instead-of-navigating-to-the-existing-one/14884), [link to archive](https://community.bear.app/t/wikilinks-to-archived-note-do-not-work/14866/5)). Some of these issues are particularly severe, as they can lead to data loss. - The features I missed the most compared to the native apps are **attachments** , **shortcuts** , **tag icons** , and the ability to **hide notes from subtags**. - I hope the web app will be available as an installable **PWA** in the future. Currently, I keep it open in a pinned browser tab, but having its own icon in the application bar would be fantastic. That said, I can confidently say you’ve done an excellent job! Despite these limitations, the web application has already proven to be extremely useful 🥳 ---
**Author:** ![rexikan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/rexikan/32/4117_2.png) [@rexikan](https://community.bear.app/u/rexikan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/16 "2025-02-07T14:56:39Z")
> [@ffmich](#): > > After more than a week of almost daily use across different browsers and operating systems, it’s time to share more feedback. Thank you! Knowing what you miss the most helps us prioritize. We have considered making it a PWA, but our priority is to fix bugs and add the missing features. ---
**Author:** ![ffmich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ffmich/32/1515_2.png) [@ffmich](https://community.bear.app/u/ffmich)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/17 "2025-08-27T07:21:00Z")
I just noticed that it’s now possible to install Bear Web as a PWA. Awesome! I’ll give it a try on Linux🎉 ---
**Author:** ![bru](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/bru/32/179_2.png) [@bru](https://community.bear.app/u/bru)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:04am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/intial-thoughts/14781/18 "2025-08-27T11:04:32Z")
That’s to be considered experimental and not a permanent feature, please tread carefully.