Create, search, and manage Bear notes via grizzly CLI.
Use grizzly to create, read, and manage notes in Bear on macOS.
Requirements
~/.config/grizzly/token)For operations that require a token (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), you need an authentication token:
echo "YOUR_TOKEN" > ~/.config/grizzly/tokenCreate a note
echo "Note content here" | grizzly create --title "My Note" --tag work
grizzly create --title "Quick Note" --tag inbox < /dev/null
Open/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
Common flags:
--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 fileGrizzly reads config from (in priority order):
GRIZZLY_TOKEN_FILE, GRIZZLY_CALLBACK_URL, GRIZZLY_TIMEOUT).grizzly.toml in current directory~/.config/grizzly/config.tomlExample ~/.config/grizzly/config.toml:
token_file = "~/.config/grizzly/token"
callback_url = "http://127.0.0.1:42123/success"
timeout = "5s"
--enable-callback when you need to read data back from Bear