bear-notes

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Create, search, and manage Bear notes via grizzly CLI.

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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:
  1. Open Bear → Help → API Token → Copy Token
  2. Save it: 
    echo "YOUR_TOKEN" > ~/.config/grizzly/token

Common Commands

Create a note
bash
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
bash
grizzly open-note --id "NOTE_ID" --enable-callback --json
Append text to a note
bash
echo "Additional content" | grizzly add-text --id "NOTE_ID" --mode append --token-file ~/.config/grizzly/token
List all tags
bash
grizzly tags --enable-callback --json --token-file ~/.config/grizzly/token
Search notes (via open-tag)
bash
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):
  1. CLI flags
  2. Environment variables (
    GRIZZLY_TOKEN_FILE
    , 
    GRIZZLY_CALLBACK_URL
    , 
    GRIZZLY_TIMEOUT
    )
  3. .grizzly.toml
    in current directory
  4. ~/.config/grizzly/config.toml
Example 
~/.config/grizzly/config.toml
:
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)