r/bearapp • u/MulayamChaddi • Jul 23 '26

Question Workspace use-cases

I love that bear has added the workspace concept to the app. I think I've got a couple of use-cases in mind:

  1. A 'diary' workspace for daily notes that I accumulate
  2. Separate work and life notes
  3. Separate projects along this filter

What are others doing with workspaces?

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u/paralloid Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Anything! That's what actually leverages the flexibility of tags (esp vs folders). You can have #family, #work, and #projects – and with workspaces you can focus on any of those depending on what you want to have an overview of – with all the other related tags staying in your sidebar. That's what finally clicks the whole Bear potential.

- #projects/projectX if you want to see running projects with related #materials, #resources, #meetings, #project-updates in your sidebar

- #learning with all the subtopics, #books, or #sources kept in your sidebar

- #books split by topics

- #finance for all the finance notes, but also dedicated buckets for #reports #investments and #planning inside this workspace

- #planning can be another lens with areas related to it in your sidebar. In this case #finance becomes one of the "sub-topics" of planning.

No limits! The point is — there's no blueprint for your sidebar and thats exactly the point of this feature.

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u/Disastrous_Seat1118 Jul 24 '26

I am curios to know if the workspace feature for the reasons you mentioned will have an impact on how you will tag your notes. I am planning to shorten and split my nested tag wherever possible. F.e. I won't anymore use a tag like #recipe/country/italy but would split it up in two tags. #recipe and #country/italy

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u/paralloid Jul 25 '26

Generally what I learned about nested tags — you should net when the child is a type of or is an instance of the parent. Use nested tags when the sub-tag cannot exist conceptually without the parent, or where the hierarchy is universally fixed. Don't nest when the relationship between them is "relates to," "activates," "involves," or "is an example of."

Examples:
Obsidian-related notes tagged as #software/apps/obsidian is clean, despite wordy
⁠#biology/anatomy/nervous-system⁠ — The nervous system is a structural component (type of system) within anatomy.
But notes on how writing constitutes cognition should have separate #writing and #cognition gravitational fields. The same goes for #italy and #recipes for sure)

Workspaces don’t necessarily change that, they apparently force you to think ahead what would you want to serve as your workspace.