v0.1.0

Initial release of bear-notes-cli.

A zero-dependency CLI for managing Bear notes on macOS. Reads via SQLite, writes via x-callback-url.

Read commands (works without Bear running)

• bear list -- list notes with filters (tag, archived, trashed, pinned, todos, sort)
• bear get -- get a note by ID or title
• bear search -- full-text search with snippets
• bear tags -- browse tags as a tree with counts
• bear backlinks -- view incoming and outgoing note links
• bear stats -- database statistics
• bear export -- export note content to stdout or file

Write commands (requires Bear running)

• bear create -- create notes (supports stdin)
• bear edit -- append, prepend, or replace note text (supports stdin)
• bear open -- open a note in Bear
• bear trash / bear archive -- move notes
• bear tag-rename / bear tag-delete -- manage tags

Features

• --json flag on every command for scripting
• Zero npm dependencies -- uses Node.js builtins (node:sqlite, node:util)
• Requires Node.js 22+

npm install -g bear-notes-cli