{"id":1738,"date":"2021-11-18T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bear.app\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2021-12-17T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:47:03","slug":"bear-with-us-an-interview-with-professional-guitarist-sam-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bear.app\/2021\/11\/bear-with-us-an-interview-with-professional-guitarist-sam-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear With Us: An interview with professional guitarist Sam Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome back to Bear With Us, our interview series<\/a> that answers questions like: who uses Bear? How does Bear fit into their work or play? Do they prefer coffee or tea?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re on a mission to ask these and other burning questions from interesting people. Then we share their answers with you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional guitarist Sam Russell took time out of traveling, running a guitar school, and looking this badass to share how he uses Bear to juggle it all. Read on for some ideas on organizing your business and<\/em> personal life across tags and multiple notes, although Sam\u2019s scorching style secrets remain shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell us about yourself and what you do for a living?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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My name is Sam Russell, and I\u2019m a professional guitarist. I write and release music, teach students how to take their playing from a beginner level to advanced level, and also teach them how to compose their own songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My two current projects are working on an instrumental guitar album and launching a teaching website<\/a> to help rock guitar players become more advanced players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about for fun?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What I do for a living is what I do for fun! But in addition to that, I love reading, traveling to new places, and spending time with my friends having a good bonfire with a beer or two. I\u2019m also a fan of long distance hiking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you hear about Bear, and how long have you been using it?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I first heard about Bear as a recommendation from an author I followed several years ago. He mentioned he used Bear as a tool to help organise his notes for books that he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After looking into Bear, I jumped on board and have loved using it since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many notes do you have?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I currently have 395 notes and counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you share a little about how you organize notes in Bear?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I organise my notes by tag and sub-tag. The parent tag will be the broad category (e.g. travel or business), and the sub tag will be specific ideas related to the parent tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in my travel tags, I have a tag for each country (e.g. Portugal) and also activity (e.g. surfing). A particular note may contain more than one tag (I like to keep them under the title) depending on what it\u2019s relevant to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that some notes might be referenced by two tags in the left hand menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does Bear fit into your workflow? Do you use it in certain places, or for specific tasks?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Click for a (possibly?) never-before-seen look behind the curtain at how Sam works!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I have three main uses for Bear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n