Bear Database Readability

Are Bear notes or databases readable outside of Bear? I have a corporate issued MacBook and would like to use Bear on it, but I have concerns about whether IT can read my notes or files.

I’m not looking to get into a discussion regarding installing Bear on a corporate issued MacBook Pro, that’s beside the point. Assume I’m doing it anyway.

My question isn’t around whether to use Bear, but to gain an understanding of where to draw the line with what I put into Bear.

Can someone with disk access to my Mac read my notes?
Would they be able to see plantext note names?
Does anyone with experience with JAMF know what could be read using this tool?

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I believe that bear stores its notes in SQLite database which is not encrypted. I guess your IT department would have the ability to access it.

They would for sure have access to the database file, but beyond seeing that file, what could they see? Can that file be loaded into anything other than Bear and be read? Is there anything proprietary there or could any database engine that can handle SQLite read it?

It’s a regular sqlite database. Standard tools can read it, and the entire contents of all the notes are visible in it.

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Yeah there are lots of tools that can open and handle SQLite files.

Don’t forget that you can encrypt individual notes.

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