# Daily Note - Quickest way to add, add, and add more to one **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [June 5, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188 "2025-06-05T21:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bearmacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bearmacho](https://community.bear.app/u/bearmacho)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/1 "2025-06-05T21:58:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Winson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4af34b/32.png) [@Winson](https://community.bear.app/u/Winson)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/2 "2025-12-31T14:54:08Z")
I’m considering switching from Reflect too. @bearmacho - have you found a solution to this? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/3 "2026-01-07T14:17:56Z")
@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. ---
**Author:** ![bearmacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bearmacho](https://community.bear.app/u/bearmacho)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/4 "2026-01-07T14:32:39Z")
I would love that! Yes pls! ---
**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/5 "2026-01-07T14:55:45Z")
When this Shortcut runs, record an audio and add it to a note titled with today’s date (e.g. 07/01/2026, Wed) > **[Shortcuts](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/eb91feafa5884b2286262edb28f7dbd8)** ---
**Author:** ![AR0001](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ar0001/32/7463_2.png) [@AR0001](https://community.bear.app/u/AR0001)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/6 "2026-01-07T18:59:43Z")
Thanks for sharing this, it’s great! ---
**Author:** ![Winson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4af34b/32.png) [@Winson](https://community.bear.app/u/Winson)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/7 "2026-01-16T11:41:45Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![AR0001](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ar0001/32/7463_2.png) [@AR0001](https://community.bear.app/u/AR0001)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/8 "2026-01-16T19:54:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Angel101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@Angel101](https://community.bear.app/u/Angel101)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/9 "2026-01-16T20:54:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![albf](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/albf/32/1111_2.png) [@albf](https://community.bear.app/u/albf)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/daily-note-quickest-way-to-add-add-and-add-more-to-one/17188/10 "2026-01-17T13:01:26Z")
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.