bear-notes-mcp

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Search, read, create, and update your Bear Notes from any AI assistant. Available as a one-click Claude Desktop extension and as a standalone npm package for any MCP client.

This local-only MCP server reads Bear's SQLite database for fast search with OCR support, and uses Bear's native API for writes. Complete privacy: no external connections, all processing on your Mac.

Example prompts:

> Summarize our conversation and create a new Bear note with it

> Interview me about my side project idea and capture the key points in a Bear note

> Help me restructure the outline in my "Product Launch" note

> Let's brainstorm blog post ideas — save the best ones to my Bear note and refine them as we go

• 12 MCP tools for searching, reading, creating, updating, tagging, and archiving notes
• OCR search — finds text inside attached images and PDFs
• Date-based search with relative dates ("yesterday", "last week", "start of last month")
• Tag management — list tags as a tree, find untagged notes, add tags to notes
• New note convention (opt-in) — place tags right after the title instead of at the bottom
• Content replacement (opt-in) — replace the full note body or a specific section
• Local-only — no network calls, all data stays on your Mac

> [!NOTE] > Complete privacy (except the data you send to your AI provider when using an AI assistant, of course): this server makes no external connections. All processing happens locally on your Mac using Bear's own database and API. There is no extra telemetry, usage statistics or anything like that.

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