Thread on Bear community forums
I’m gonna be pretty strong on this one because I’m confident that I’m speaking for most users, so if I’m not, I’d appreciate users’ response to this thread even more than usual.
Regarding the button to insert an image into a note, I’d ask that you guys take a second to consider your own workflows: how many of the images in your various notes were actually captured and embedded from within Bear?
Honestly, were I developing a notetaking app, I don’t think it would even occur to me to add a capture image now button at all. While I have certainly done so in the very early days of Day One, I do not consider it a rational or advantageous function, whatsoever, and I knew it immediately even way back then. Especially considering the complexity of the camera app, now, with all of its configurable variables (as well as all the different options for physical gestures to open it.)
To clarify my proposed alternative: having the Insert from Photo Library button on “top” of its stack in the new menu so that one needn’t long press to insert an image from their photo library. (I suspect others use it the least, in fact, so I would even go so far as too suggest that it should be last behind Insert Image from File, but I’m not quite as confident when it comes to the average user in that addendum.)
Imo, this is actually a great opportunity to once again demonstrate just how thoughtful I know Bear’s UX authorities must be - that immediately obvious truth that it was built by people who actually use it hehe.
Once again: if this comes across as off-target to anyone, I’d very much appreciate pushback.
Thanks for your time :)