Sticky Note Concept: MacOS > Separate Bear Window > "Assign to" > "All Desktops" (Addition to "Open in New Window" + "Float on Top" i.c.w. "Spaces" (Apple Stickies))

All my workflows are completely attuned towards Spaces on desktop MacOS, writing included. I would love to use a separate Bear window as a “Sticky Note”, that can travel with me when I’m swiping through all those Spaces and that I can use as a constantly available checklist, brain dump, draft project document note etc. “Open in New Window” + “Float on Top” are the first steps to achieve this.

However, other than that, I can’t use Bear in this “travel along” way because when I Assign Bear to “All Desktops” it will assign (off course) ALL Bear windows to that desktop, not only my preffered separate window, which defeats the purpose of using multiple Bear windows.

This is kindoff a lowkey daily drag for me personally (especially when I just use one (laptop) or my special widescreen monitors). Now I use a separate app (Apple Sticky Notes) just solely for this purpose, and copying everything back and forth during sessions (when I don’t forget). Would rather much prefer to just use Bear for everything text related if possible, love the app and iCloud sync.

Solution idea? : Maybe there are better options and the community can suggest them down here, but since this Dock Assigning Desktop feature currently is only set per app program, would it be possible to spin up a second Bear app instance (Underneath “Open in New Window” + “Open in New Bear Instance” f.e.) that then can have different window management settings?

Bonus feature wishes: Since I already mentioned Apple Stickies, I love their ability to change the background color + couple of interesting easy formatting options (selecting text > cmd + or - for resizing and the MacOS font library) + my favorite: the double click the top > tiny collapse bar option. :raising_hands:

That last one is elegant in a way that in all those years I’ve never seen someone replicate it so nicely. With the option for almost completely freely window sizing, it doesn’t scream for much attention, just what you want from a sticky note, available but not overly intrusive. Truly one off Apple’s most neglected MacOS apps. Maybe there are some elements here that you could artistically copy, call it a reverse Sherlock :slight_smile: .

These are my top wishes for my daily use of Bear atm. I’m glad your team is making so many great improvements the last couple of months (not sure what happend because from my perspective as an early user at frequent moments it looked like not that much was happening, so I’m so thrilled :D). Happy again that I invested all those years tagging and creating my own note database and stuck with Bear all this time :).

Hope you can maybe help me with these use cases. Thanks!

(Edit*: I thought I searched for similar topic, turns out I overlooked these ones:)

WindowMizer brings back the Window Shade feature from Classic Mac OS.


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Wow, thanks for the tip, awesome already! Tried it out, bit clunky at some points (takes a while to rollup, background flickers), but it works. Would still like to see it natively, but this surely is something that I can play around with in the meantime :slight_smile:.