Daily Note - Quickest way to add, add, and add more to one

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For a while now, I’ve been using an app called Reflect to save my thoughts and random stuff as I walk around. But I’ve given that up, and I want to use Bear as my singular PKM.

What I do miss is the ability to record it on my phone and then add it to a daily note at the end of the day. Triage that can everybody recommend a way that will work on both Mac OS and iOS and hopefully Apple Watch? Where I can add to my daily note for a given date, and once midnight hits, Bear automatically adds to the next day’s note. I’m not too fussed about a calendar view, but some way of having a timeline would be useful.

Thank you.

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I’m considering switching from Reflect too.
@bearmacho - have you found a solution to this?

Thanks.

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@bearmacho @Winson My understanding is that you want to record a voice note and add it to a note reporting the date of the day. If this is the case, the above can be done within a Shortcut that can be triggered in many iOS and macOS locations (lock screens, Shortcuts widget, action button, …) but not on watchOS.
If you are interested, I think I can build this Shortcut pretty easily.

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I would love that! Yes pls!

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When this Shortcut runs, record an audio and add it to a note titled with today’s date (e.g. 07/01/2026, Wed)

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Thanks for sharing this, it’s great!

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Thanks for this @trix180 .
For context, I suppose for me the needs here are two:

  • a ‘calendar view’ as a default way to create and review notes by created date (basically in a chronological format) as oppose to the workaround of manually creating a note with the date in the title (and perhaps tags to categorise months/years)
    This is one of the main features that currently prevents me to fully migrate to bear.

  • a ‘speech to text’ feature - allows for a very snappy note taking experience without having to manually type. I can appreciate this is not in scope of bear notes at the moment, and I’d be happy to find a workaround (e.g. shortcut with a separate text to speech app)

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I agree that a daily note calendar would be nice. It is one of the few things I miss from Obsidian since I left to come back to Bear. I agree that I don’t want Bear to become bloated, but some sort of aesthetically implemented calendar would be nice. Right now I am creating my daily notes manually which isn’t a huge deal really, but does take a little effort/thinking.

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I also agree, built in calendar notes and integration would be amazing. Most notes I take are related to calendar events and the rest are daily notes. I really like Noteplans integration of the ability to click an event and have it open to a note.

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I also wanted a calendar like the one in the popular Obsidian third-party plugin, but I don’t think it fits Bear’s design philosophy. I’m in favor, but I guess most users and the devs are against it.

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