I just want to explain why bear itself (i am a paying subscriber many years) DOESN’T solve all my issues and hence my enthusiasm for panda. I simply need a more traditional way of separating namespaces. That’s it. I don’t need to read another word about zettlekasten or nested tags. I simply want an ability to have completely separate spaces for different kinds of notes.
If bear supported workspaces, i wouldn’t really need panda on ios.
That being said, having just painstakingly transferred a logbook from an older app that is no longer available on ios into markdown, i see renewed enthusiasm for file-based storage of documents (although overall i think users don’t realise how much better performance is in a database-backed solution like bear).
As long as panda as full blown app with an own library doesn’t exist you don’t need to think about which you should go for. The main difference of panda will be that the notes are file based rather than database based like in bear
Man, I’m just gonna let it rip—SCREAM! Okay, that felt good. Look, I’m fed up with the sorry state of Markdown editors on iOS and iPadOS. I’m out here literally remoting into my Mac just to use Panda’s sweet, Bear-like editing experience because the iPad options are straight-up lacking. I mean, I’ll grind through editing raw Markdown on my iPad when I have to, but what I really want—what I’m screaming for—is that single-panel, WYSIWYG magic where the Markdown delimiters vanish as soon as I move off the word or hit the end of a line.
P.S. This hopefully shows there is a real need for an iOS / iPadOS version of Panda.
==PLEASE, PLEASE, Hear me when I say there is a need.==
We want to give Panda the love it deserves, but right now, we’re a small team juggling a lot, and it’s been hard to find the time it needs. We’re making plans (including growing the team!), but we’re just not there yet.
Want to release Panda as soon as we can, but not at the expense of Bear, which still needs our full attention.
This probably isn’t the news you were hoping for, and we wish we had a better one. Still thanks so much for your feedback!
I totally get the focus where needed. I just wanted to make sure the need for a quality iOS editor like Panda was recorded. I do think you have an interesting opportunity to plan a way to use the editor improvements made in Bear in Panda as well going forward. As a person who literally has 3 Swift projects on his drive trying to get the basics of an iOS editor working those vanishing markdown delimiters are painful to make work correctly, so what you have done is wonderful and I just want to say think you and you’ll find me in your “Paid” supporter fan club.
many years bear’s subscriber here. remember last year when i first tested out Panda app – i decided which application fits best for all project notes i had and more. bear was my choice one more year, because everything that i need to keep track in my life is in one place – Bear.app
Panda looks really great, design and aesthetics, build-in markdown with preview mode by-default…
there is only one thing stops the migration process to Panda – no files or tags structure.
i really like the idea to hold everything as file in the filesystem and have access to all of these files in one place. furthermore, i need to be able to control and modify files (eg. notes, files, etc) in one place as well. for now the only tool implements that good enough, give-or-take, is Obsidian.
i really like to see how Panda will surpass Obsidian and other note-taking file-based tools. but for now i cannot move forward with it while there is no way to get access to all notes, eg. located in one directory, from the application.
thanks for the great work! keep working on Panda, so one day i could pay for that great product and find a peace in PKM / zettelkasten world on macOS
LOL. Good one. And I agree. Set up a GoFundMe or similar. [Shiny Frog: You guys/gals deserve a little financial freedom to keep giving us the best two macOS products ever.]
Hi, just tried the Panda Beta. It is basically the Markdown Editor Part of Bear. I already have a use case for it. I use it as an Editor for Markdown Files in Devonthink. Works great! Please continue developing Panda!
