Bear Alfred Workflow

Alfred workflow to search and create notes in Bear. View it on Packal, or join in the discussion on the Alfred forums.

Install

To install, download a released alfred-bear workflow and double-click to open in Alfred. Easy-peasy.

Searching and opening results

bs -- Search for a note by title/content and open it in Bear.

bst -- Search for a tag (a group of notes) by tag title and open it in Bear.

Creating a new note

bn I love notes! -- Creates a new note with the title and text "I love notes!"

bn I love notes! #love #notes -- Creates a new note with the title and text "I love notes!" and the tags "#love" and "#notes"

Known Issues

• Creating tags only works with single-word tags - multiword tags hopefully to come.

Todo

• Append text to existing notes.
• Figure out multi-word tags.

Thanks

• deanishe for guidance on Alfred workflow creation and capabilities, and for his excellent Python workflow library.
• dfay for guidance from his experience writing the Ulysses Alfred workflow.
• Rhyd Lewis for giving me an excellent example to work off of in his Omnifocus Alfred workflow.

Versions

0.3.5

• Fixed backwards compatibility with Alfred 3, sorry about that.

0.3.4

• Fixed 'bst' calls that were failing due to schema change. Again. The SQL schema change sequel, if you will.

0.3.3

• Fixed 'bst' calls that were failing due to schema change

0.3.2

• Fixed database location that changed with a Bear update. Again.

0.3.1

• Fixed database location that changed with a Bear update.

0.3.0

• Added search results from note text to main search.

0.2.2

• Changed search queries to order by last modified date descending, so that more recently modified notes/tags show up at the top.

0.2.1

• Added hashtag symbol to "Open Tag" list results to make it a little more obvious that it's a tag and not a note.

0.2.0

• Now allows non-ASCII characters.
• Searching by tag now displays not only tags that match the search query, but notes that match those tags as well.
• Searching by tag now works with or without the '#' symbol in front of the tag.

0.1.0 Initial public release.