[corbinpage]

Reminds me of Simple Note, which I've been using ever since Evernote became slow and bloated (https://simplenote.com/).

[kmf]

Bear App (http://www.bear-writer.com) is pretty neat too - it has Markdown support and uses iCloud Sync, which is probably the best part of Apple's Notes app.

[dvcrn]

I on the other hand find Bear horrible. You are completely locking yourself into their system and if you stop paying the monthly fee, you even loose the ability to sync your things to your phone or Mac.

On top of that, I find their organization features not very good. The ability to tag notes seems neat at first but it can become very messy very fast. Completely freeform tagging requires a lot of discipline to not get out of hand, nested tags make this even more difficult. This is especially true for a notes app that is supposed to last you over many many years and possibly hold thousands of notes at some point.

I personally bought Ulysses and use that as my notes taking app for text-only documents, and Apple Notes for short-lived image related notes.

[hendersoon]

It's neat, but only if you live completely inside the Apple ecosystem.

[SirensOfTitan]

Have started using and has become my daily driver (for notes and lite GTD work). The developers also actively engage with the community over at reddit.com/r/bearapp

[febed]

After being a heavy SimpleNote user I finally migrated to Onenote. Simplenote is excellent for basic notetaking but having used Onenote I'm spoiled by it's ability to search within images. This is a lifesaver if you have to quickly search for a scanned receipt or a screenshot.

[creativityland]

Found myself in a similar situation with Wunderlist slowing down over the past year. Found Taskcade (http://www.taskcade.com) to be a good alternative, but it is web only right now.

[d0vs]

Does this do reminders?

[_bearMountain]

I don't think it does yet. But there's an extension system built for Standard Notes so 3rd party can add.