View this email in your browser Bear Newsletter - January 2019 Happy 2019 everyone! We hope your new year, notes, and writing are off to a good start. The Shiny Frog team had some great time off over the holidays. Now we’re rested, recharged, and back to work on great stuff for you. In fact, we’d like to offer a sneak peek into some of our current projects: Bear 1.7 with encryption and note locking

A major redesign of the Editor to support big feature requests

The web app for Bear Pro subscribers These don’t have release dates yet, although we hope (hope!) to start beta testing Bear 1.7 in the next month or two. More on that in a bit. Now, let’s start the show. Get Bear for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch! Bear 1.7 with encryption and note locking One of our most frequent feature requests is for the ability to encrypt and lock individual notes. This can be useful in all sorts of situations, like sharing a device with a friend or family member, or using a personal device in a work setting. We’re happy to say that these features (and others) are in the works for Bear 1.7. Beta Program That’s right, we said beta! We’re gearing up to get a beta program off the ground to help test and polish our releases, and first up will be Bear 1.7. Keep in mind that beta means there are likely bugs and unfinished features. It also means we would love your help, bug reports, and feedback on the new stuff we build for you. Bear 1.7 still needs some time, but you can apply now for our beta program. Once we have something ready, we’ll be in touch. The new Editor We can rebuild the Editor, we have the technology. One of our two Super Major Important Projects right now is a complete redesign and rewrite of the Editor at the core of Bear. We heard you loud and clear: you want tables, customizability for displaying PDFs and photos, and more flexible ways to format text like putting links and tags in headers. We’re happy to say we’re working on all of these and more, including a full switch to Markdown. For now, check out the sneak peek above with some of the new stuff we already have working. There is a link and a tag in the header, a simpler exclusion of styled text, and nested styles (bold and italics). We have big plans for the new Editor, and one of them includes unifying the overall experience with our next Super Major Important Project. Bear for web It’s real! It’s in the works! It’s also really not done yet. Still, check out the first sweet, sweet screenshot we’ve felt comfortable to release. Yes, this is our other Super Major Important Project, and work is progressing well. One of our goals with this web app is to create a full, rich Bear experience; this ain’t some slap-dash website just to check off a box. That’s also part of the reason why this is taking a while, but as they say: Good things come to those who wait.

- Nickelback In case you haven’t seen it yet, we have a Bear for web FAQ with answers to many of your common questions. To recap: Bear for web will require Bear Pro.

Pro is required because your notes will still sync via iCloud. We do not want to host your notes or see any of your data , so this is a great solution.

, so this is a great solution. There won’t be sharing or collaboration anytime soon. Because of the method the web app will use to directly and securely access your Bear notes in iCloud, sharing and collaboration won’t be possible.

Yes, there will be a beta. But it's still a good ways off. For those curious about the technical details behind Bear for web: it will use Apple’s CloudKit to access your notes in your iCloud account. It’s a web framework Apple provides for building web apps to do exactly this. Here’s to 2019! 🐻🎉🥂 We hope these previews can help tide you over until their releases. Let us know what you think about these projects or Bear overall, and we hope to be in touch soon. bear@shinyfrog.net

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