Is anyone using Bear to collect things to purchase. Or a wish list? In a way like a Bookmark app like mymind?
Basically as going through my day I want to save links to items I want to buy. Is it best to save a link and have a new note for every item? So title is the name of the item then with tags like #edc/knife, #kitchen/coffee. Or is it better to have one note for each category. Like a note for EDC where links to all wallets, knives,etc go. That seems harder to find individual items? But I’m not sure
I have a “might want to” tag with subtags “buy”, “do”, “read”, “visit”, “watch”, etc. Some of these also have subtags: “buy” has “apparel”, “gear”, hardware" and “software”.
So I’d use the Bear extension in Safari to make a note of the webpage with the link to, say, a knife, and tag the note “#might want to/buy/gear#”. On my Mac, dragging a note from Untagged to the relevant tag in the sidebar makes this easy.
I have tried having a single note for all “apparel”, and another for all “gear”, etc, but the notes grew unwieldy. Creating a new note for each item is simpler and faster, and searching for an item produces a discrete result, rather than a page to scroll through.
A single note for multiple items might be useful for, say, comparison shopping, but otherwise I’d recommend one note per item.
I have a tag ‘Links’ which I use as I surf for items I might wish to buy later. I use sub tags within ‘links’ for ‘clothing’, ‘house’ etc and if I find an item I may wish to return to for purchase I insert a link to the seller in a note in each section. Once I (or if) I purchase the item then I simply delete the link note. I have done this for a long time and it works great for me.