bearbag

bearbag was a markdown exporter for Bear. I used it to copy my notes into a git repository, giving me backups and version history.

⚠️ bearbag is unmaintained. Bear 2.8 now includes a built-in bearcli tool, which provides all of the functionality needed to export notes and attachments, especially when wrapped in a small shell script. I recommend you use that instead.

Using

Export your bear notes to path/to/directory:

bearbag path/to/directory

Get help:

bearbag --help

Alternatives

• Bear-Markdown-Export: This has a lot more options and functionality, including two way sync, exporting images & textbundles, and others. The two way sync scares me (which is why I don't use it) but if you're OK with that it enables some interesting use cases, such as the neat Backlink Janitor
• bearc: This requires you to pick which tags are exported.

Other Bear CLI tools

• bearing: a scripting helper for Bear
• cub: command-line utility for Bear

License

bearbag is released under the MIT License

I'm sharing this code publicly to make it easier for me to install when I get a new computer, and in the hope it is useful to others. I would love to hear about interesting things you do with it, but I do not commit to maintain or support the code in any way. Sorry in advance.