Bear CLI places YAML front matter in the wrong place

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  • Bear Version: 2.8.1

  • OS Version: Mac Tahoe 26.5.1

  • What were you doing: using Bear CLI to create new notes

  • What feature did you use: Creating a note with both an explicit title and body content beginning with YAML frontmatter.

  • What happened: Bear inserted the title as a Markdown `#` heading before the supplied body content. This moved the YAML block below the title:

    My note title

    kind: test

    …

    The CLI’s “insert at beginning” operation also inserts after the title, so it cannot later place a YAML block before that heading.

  • What did you expect to happen: When creating a note, I should be able to supply a title while preserving YAML frontmatter as the first content in the note. Ideally, Bear would either:

    • preserve the supplied body exactly and store the title separately, or
    • provide a dedicated frontmatter/metadata operation, or an insertion mode that inserts before the title.
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Right. What you should do in that case is just to omit the title as an argument and supply the full note content, including YAML, title, and any other content.

I will take a note about it, and we will see if we can improve the CLI in this regard.

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I figured out this workaround but it would be great to have front matter as a first-class citizen in the CLI :slight_smile: Currently it’s very easy to break the frontmatter if we supply the title argument in any call.