Tap to top: Bear

I praised the note-taking app Bear before for its memory; the app would always remember your last-visited note and the precise place within it, even if it had every right to forget it. But there is a general problem here: memory that kicks in when not expected can be frustrating, as you have to undo its results and “reset to normal.” For Bear that’s not a problem, though, right? The whole iOS has a nice “tap near the top to scroll to the top” gesture that would work here as well, making it easy to recover if you return to the note where you last happened to type. Except, with any writing app, the very bottom is as valid of a destination as the very top. Bear designers understood it and tried to solve it in a new way, by adding two gestures: a two-finger swipe up takes you to the very top, and a two-finger swipe down to the very bottom: It doesn’t quite work as well as I hoped – for some reason, it scrolls way too far down, and does feel a bit sticky mechanically. It’s also, like any…