bear-notes

Use grizzly to create, read, and manage notes in Bear on macOS. Requirements For operations that require a token (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), you need an authentication token: Create a note Open/read a note by ID Append text to a note List all tags Search notes (via open-tag) Common flags: Grizzly reads config from (in priority order): Example ~/.config/grizzly/config.toml : - Bear app installed and running - For some operations (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), a Bear app token (stored in ~/.config/grizzly/token ) - Open Bear → Help → API Token → Copy Token - Save it: echo "YOUR_TOKEN" > ~/.config/grizzly/token - --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 - CLI flags - Environment variables ( GRIZZLY_TOKEN_FILE , GRIZZLY_CALLBACK_URL , GRIZZLY_TIMEOUT ) - .grizzly.toml in current directory - ~/.config/grizzly/config.toml - 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)