bear-notes

Bear Notes Use grizzly to create, read, and manage notes in Bear on macOS. Requirements Bear app installed and running For some operations (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), a Bear app token (stored in ~/.config/grizzly/token ) Getting a Bear Token For operations that require a token (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), you need an authentication token: Open Bear → Help → API Token → Copy Token Save it: echo "YOUR_TOKEN" > ~/.config/grizzly/token Common Commands Create a note echo "Note content here" | grizzly create --title "My Note" --tag work grizzly create --title "Quick Note" --tag inbox < /dev/null Open/read a note by ID grizzly open-note --id "NOTE_ID" --enable-callback --json Append text to a note echo "Additional content" | grizzly add-text --id "NOTE_ID" --mode append --token-file ~/.config/grizzly/token List all tags grizzly tags --enable-callback --json --token-file ~/.config/grizzly/token Search notes (via open-tag) grizzly open-tag --name "work" --enable-callback --json Options Common flags: --dry-run — Preview the URL without executing --print-url — Show the x-callback-url --enable-callback — Wait for Bear's response (needed for reading data) --json — Output as JSON (when using callbacks) --token-file PATH — Path to Bear API token file Configuration Grizzly reads config from (in priority order): CLI flags Environment variables ( GRIZZLY_TOKEN_FILE , GRIZZLY_CALLBACK_URL , GRIZZLY_TIMEOUT ) .grizzly.toml in current directory ~/.config/grizzly/config.toml Example ~/.config/grizzly/config.toml : token_file = "~/.config/grizzly/token" callback_url = "http://127.0.0.1:42123/success" timeout = "5s" Notes Bear must be running for commands to work Note IDs are Bear's internal identifiers (visible in note info or via callbacks) Use --enable-callback when you need to read data back from Bear Some operations require a valid token (add-text, tags, open-note --selected)