bear-sync 0.1.0

Sync notes from Bear to a local directory

Bear Sync

This is a small python package to export notes from Bear to a local directory as markdown files.

Installation

via pip:

pip install bear-sync

Usage

bear-sync [options] <directory>

Where <directory> should be the directory that the notes should be written to.

Options:

--db-dir TEXT: Path to Bear's database directory. Defaults to ~/Library/Group Containers/9K33E3U3T4.net.shinyfrog.bear/Application Data/database.sqlite

--overwrite: Overwrite existing markdown files with the same name.

--remove-existing: Remove existing markdown files before syncing. WARNING: This will delete all markdown files in output-dir.

Behaviour

This package attempts to mimic the behaviour of bear with a directory structure. At the moment, this results some duplication of files. If you have a document in bear like follows:

# My Bear Document

#tag/subtag #tag2

This is my bear document.

then the resulting directory structure will be:

bear_sync_folder/
├── tag/
|   ├── My Bear Document.md
│   ├── subtag/
│   │   ├── My Bear Document.md
├── tag2/
|   ├── My Bear Document.md

Example - using bear-sync with git

Setup a new git repository:

mkdir bear_notes
cd bear_notes
git init

Create a shell script to sync the bear notes:

cat <<EOF > bear_sync.sh
NOTES_PATH="$HOME/bear_notes"

bear-sync --overwrite --remove-existing "$NOTES_PATH"
git -C "$NOTES_PATH" add .
git -C "$NOTES_PATH" commit -m "notes backup: $(date)"
EOF

Give the new script execution permissions:

chmod +x ./bear_sync.sh

Run!

./bear_sync.sh