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crossroadsguy • yesterday at 2:18 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Yes, I feel the same. A rock solid app dismantled by just one developer choice. Still I won't diss the devs because it's their choice but "a text note" is the last thing I would want "locked" in a sqlite db and bear is a "plain text note taking app" really. So just sad.

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nylonstrung • yesterday at 4:15 PM

Is SQLite really "locked in"?

It's possible most ubiquitous open source software ever (far more common than markdown) and your notes exist in fully readable text form inside it

Bear being proprietary is the real threat of lock in

strken • yesterday at 2:39 PM

From memory the sqlite3 API is something like

    sqlite3 data.db 'select text from notes'
I use sqlite3 to load and query random CSVs all the time. It feels a bit weird to hear data described as "locked" within a SQLite DB, because it's one of the simplest non-text formats for me to read data from. It would surprise me of it took more than five minutes to set up a one-way cron job to dump your notes into plain text files.
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