I sold my medical textbooks for these apps.

The ones that immediately come to mind are Drafts and Antinote, Bear and Obsidian, Raindrop and Mymind. - I can take quick notes in both Drafts and Antinote, but there's no iOS app for Antinote. - Bear and Obsidian are both excellent on macOS and iOS. I prefer Bear’s aesthetics a tad bit more than Obsidian’s. - The same is the case with Raindrop and Mymind. Mymind is so much more aesthetically pleasing, which actually makes me want to use it more, even though I know that, functionally, Raindrop is superior.

I use DEVONthink to primarily store my textbooks, journal articles, and video lectures. I have close to 3K files in DEVONthink. Whatever I read, I try to make notes, which I store in Bear. As you said, I could do it in DEVONthink, but in Bear I can do so much more: nested tags, links to other notes, search within embedded PDFs and images, and a much better typing experience. So I was basically using only these two apps: DEVONthink for reading books and watching lectures, and Bear for taking notes. I recently came across Obsidian and was blown away by the number of features it has. I tried porting all my notes from Bear to Obsidian. It was a mess. My nested tags were not working properly, and highlights were showing those weird colored circles. Embedded images and PDFs were also not working properly. I ended up deleting everything in Obsidian and starting a fresh vault. So only recently have I decided that I'll use Obsidian purely for non-professional notes. I can do it in Bear; maybe I'll delete Obsidian altogether and just do everything in Bear. I'm still figuring that part out. I hope it makes sense to you now.

Anything medical related goes in DEVONthink. After highlighting and reading the articles/books, the notes I make go in Bear. Anything non-medical/inspirational/useful websites/quotes/Instagram posts go to Mymind. After reading them, and if I decide to make notes out of them, they go to Obsidian. I can send the non-medical stuff to Bear as well, but for now I have segregated DEVONthink and Bear for medical stuff, and Mymind and Obsidian for non-medical stuff. You're correct that Obsidian covers a lot of what Bear does, but I don't like that it takes about 3 seconds to open (with just a few notes and 4 plugins installed). I cannot search within the embedded images. And correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think there's an option to draw within the notes with an Apple Pencil on iPad or a finger on iPhone. Zotero is excellent for keeping track of my citations within Word. Readwise Reader cannot compete in this department. I use Readwise Reader mainly as an RSS reader. And I really like that I can watch YouTube videos in it and highlight the transcript within the app. The highlights sync seamlessly to Readwise. Can Zotero do this? I love Hookmark to the core. DEVONthink itself can generate links to its files, notes, and PDFs, but Hookmark goes a step further, and you can generate links to almost anything outside the DEVONthink app.

Using Bear as an inbox is interesting; I do the opposite. I use DEVONthink as an inbox. I sort textbooks, articles, and videos into folders. I read them inside the DEVONthink app or PDF Expert. I annotate them. Then I leave them there. Any notes that I create go into Bear. I link notes to other notes in Bear and add tags to them. Trust me, it is a much better reading experience in Bear than in DEVONthink or Obsidian, for that matter. I love Hookmark. I mainly hook links to other apps in Bear. DEVONthink can generate links to its own files, notes, and PDFs, so Hookmark doesn’t help much there.

I use Hookmark, Downie, Permute, CleanShot X, and Paste through Setapp, so it is not a problem for me. Oh, I just remembered I also use Trickster for my workflow. How did I forget to include it? It is also an excellent app for quickly managing and transferring files.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out.

Will try your app.

Are the medical terms only available in German and Italian, or is there also an English version?

Thanks for sharing

Thank you, I’m still tinkering and refining it. The biggest and most challenging leap for me was shifting all my textbooks, notes, media, etc. from Documents by Readdle to DEVONthink.