First, I absolutely love Bear to death. It’s my notes app, and after years of wandering I have moved everything to Bear… including a fairly sizable recipe and cooking collection. The nested tags are magic.

But (and you knew this was coming), the web clipper needs work. Can you sense my propensity for understatement? I’m not going to make this a tome; we all know that the behemoth that all of us dislike has an excellent clipper. But I recently discovered Mela (in a thread here a week ago), a recipe app by the same guy who does Reeder. I’m telling you, this thing has a web clipper that is fucking amazing. Granted it’s specialized, but this thing pulls only the meat right out of those crazy, bloated food blogs and gives you a perfectly formatted recipe with zero editing. I really didn’t know how smart a web clipper could be until I started trying to stump it with various complex websites.

So development guys, please take note- download Mela, play around and see what’s possible. It’s perfectly aligned with what we all need Bear to do. As mentioned in the other thread, I’m using the Mela clipper, exporting in markdown, then importing to Bear, because it’s so much faster and easier than trying to clean it up in Bear. We need a clipper that matches the sophistication of the nested tags, please!

I appreciate you all tremendously, and Bear 2 is wonderful.