Manage Bear Notes with Grizzly

How to use

Use grizzly to work with Bear notes on macOS.

Configuration precedence, from highest to lowest:

CLI flags override every other configuration source.

Environment variables are the next fallback.

A project-local .grizzly.toml applies before the user config.

~/.config/grizzly/config.toml is the final fallback.

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).

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 or 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

1. CLI flags.
2. Environment variables (GRIZZLY_TOKEN_FILE, GRIZZLY_CALLBACK_URL, GRIZZLY_TIMEOUT).
3. .grizzly.toml in the current directory.
4. ~/.config/grizzly/config.toml.

token_file = "~/.config/grizzly/token"
callback_url = "http://127.0.0.1:42123/success"
timeout = "5s"