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bear-notes

Create, search, and manage Bear notes via grizzly.

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7.4k downloads
by @steipete

Setup & Installation

openclaw skills install @steipete/bear-notes

Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:

npx clawhub install bear-notes

What This Skill Does

Interacts with Bear notes on macOS through the grizzly CLI. Supports creating, reading, searching, and appending to notes using Bear's x-callback-url system. Bear must be running for any command to work.

Enables scripting and automation of Bear note management without touching the GUI, which is otherwise impossible with Bear alone.

When to use it

  • Create a tagged note from piped command output
  • Append meeting summaries to an existing Bear note
  • List all tags to audit note organization
  • Search notes by tag and return structured JSON
  • Read a specific note's content by its ID

Example Workflow

Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.

INPUT

User asks: Create a note called 'Sprint Retrospective' tagged with 'work' containing the text 'Action items: review PR backlog'

AGENT
  1. 1Pipe the note content to grizzly create
  2. 2Pass --title 'Sprint Retrospective' and --tag work flags
  3. 3Bear opens and saves the note
  4. 4Capture the new note ID via callback response
OUTPUT

A new note titled 'Sprint Retrospective' appears in Bear under the 'work' tag

Requirements

Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.

Bear app installed and running on macOSBear API token (from Bear → Help → API Token) for add-text, tags, and open-note operations