bear-notes

For operations that require a token (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), you need an authentication token:

1. Open Bear → Help → API Token → Copy Token
2. Save it: echo "YOUR_TOKEN" > ~/.config/grizzly/token

Create a note

```bash

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

```bash

grizzly open-note --id "NOTE_ID" --enable-callback --json

```

Append text to a note

```bash

echo "Additional content" | grizzly add-text --id "NOTE_ID" --mode append --token-file ~/.config/grizzly/token

```

List all tags

```bash

grizzly tags --enable-callback --json --token-file ~/.config/grizzly/token

```

Search notes (via open-tag)

```bash

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 file

Grizzly reads config from (in priority order):

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

Example ~/.config/grizzly/config.toml:

```toml

token_file = "~/.config/grizzly/token"

callback_url = "http://127.0.0.1:42123/success"

timeout = "5s"

```

• 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)