![]() I’ve been using Fastmail for email for over 5 years. I use Firefox when a site doesn’t play nice with it. ![]() Here’s my software and what I use it for: I hope you’ll discover a new app or two that will improve your workflow or make you more productive. ![]() Some I liked and switched to and others I tried, didn’t like and stayed with what I’d been using. I indicate in parenthesis under the app title where I’m using the app Mac, iPhone or iPad.ĭuring 2019 I tried a lot of different apps. This year instead of a separate article for Mac apps and another for iPhone and iPad apps I’m putting them all in one article. This is always one of my most popular posts. It appears that Bears sync is more reliable because they use CloudKit to sync notes instead of iCloud Drive as Ulysses does for sheets (including all attachments).Įach year towards the end of December I summarize in a post, on this site, the Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps that I will be using for the next year. I hope this clarifies it. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to reply. Since version 13, only the sheets (including all attachments) and settings are synced via iCloud Drive whereas the subscription is now synced via CloudKit. Up until version 12 of Ulysses, the subscription as well as the sheets and settings had been synced via iCloud Drive. Thank you for reaching out. We are sorry it took us longer to reply. I asked the same question of Ulysses support. Check the private/public part of the documentation for an example. Basically you can consider it a remote CoreData framework with more options. The API set is only one but is very versatile. My last question was are there different methods of deploying CloudKit? We don’t use exactly iCloud to sync notes, we use CloudKit, which shares the same servers with iCloud, but allow us to sync with a query-like API instead of a file-based paradigm like iCloud, DropBox or Google Drive. Here’s what they had to say.Īt the very begging of Bear development, we tried different solutions for synching and we also tried with just iCloud but it was very clear to us handling attachments and conflicts was really problematic and synching the whole database exposes users to a concrete risk a data loss. So I decided to reach out to Bear’s developer for a response. ![]() I’m looking at you Apple Notes and Ulysses. I’ve often wondered why when apps have issues with iCloud sync I never have an issue with Bear. And searching with Alfred or HoudahSpot I can find absolutely any file I’m looking for. I can access these files with any text editor on any platform. All my digital data is now in a shallow folder structure in Finder as individual files. The decision I made was to go back to individual files. I’ve said it enough that it sounds cliché to me, but HoudahSpot really is steroids for Spotlight on macOS. And where Spotlight falls short, HoudahSpot steps in and fills the gaps. Researching HoudahSpot lead me to this blog post by Brett Terpstra.įor those of us who have shifted from folder hierarchies to search as our primary method of “filing,” Spotlight has become a way of life. HoudahSpot was mentioned a few times as a Finder search app alternative to Spotlight. The subject of finding files/search came up. Several people use Devonthink or EagleFiler while others use a folder structure in Finder. What I gleaned from the comments was that more people favored storing data in individual files. To get a better idea of how people store their digital data I started a thread titled “Conflicted! Data storage – Individual files or proprietary database format?” in the MPU forums. And, use I know Bear and Ulysses have export options. I’ve never been comfortable with this method because of the lock-in. More recently I have been keeping it in apps like Bear, Ulysses, or Apple Notes. I used to keep it in plain text markdown files. I’ve been rethinking how I store my digital data.
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