bear-notes

The Bear Notes skill enables deep integration with the Bear app on macOS through the grizzly CLI, providing a powerful interface for personal knowledge management and note automation. Designed for power users and developers, this skill allows for seamless programmatic interaction with your notes, tags, and content, effectively turning your note-taking app into a programmable database for your AI assistant. Whether you are batch-processing research, syncing daily logs, or building complex workflows that require persistent text storage, this utility provides the necessary command hooks to read, write, and organize information without manual intervention.

• Create new notes with specific titles, custom tags, and body content directly from terminal output.

• Append text to existing notes using unique Bear note identifiers for automated logging or daily journaling.

• List, search, and navigate through existing tag structures and note IDs to maintain organized knowledge silos.

• Support for JSON output and callback-based communication to facilitate data extraction and status monitoring during complex operations.

• Configurable behavior including dry-run modes, custom token management, and global timeout settings for stable automation scripts.

• Cross-platform friendly with configuration support via environment variables, TOML files, or direct CLI flags.

• Ensure the Bear app is active and running, as this skill relies on x-callback-url interactions for read operations and data retrieval.

• Secure your workflow by placing the Bear API token in the designated configuration file (~/.config/grizzly/token) to enable write and management commands.

• Note IDs are essential for targeting existing content; retrieve these via search queries or callbacks to perform updates.

• Use the --enable-callback flag specifically when you need to parse returned data from the Bear application, such as fetching note content or listing current tags.

• This skill is built for macOS environments where the native Bear app resides, utilizing local paths and standard shell piping to maximize performance and security.