Good day everyone.
I really love the framework called https://www.myforevernotes.com
I have notes created with date titles like this: “3 November” , “10 November” , “11 November”, etc.
There is a shortcut that works with Apple notes and I would like to try to recreate it for Bear. The link to the Shortcut is here: Shortcuts
If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks!
Here is a shortcut I use for a Bear daily note.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/66ac60294e254c948761f09db1b68938
There is an actual setting in Bear settings to start a new note with date (and optionally the time as well)
So here is the shortcut I am trying out… but it isn’t working.
The problem isn’t creating a note with the date. I want to create a shortcut to open pre-existing notes with dates on them.
But it is giving me an “Invalid URL” error.
I’m not very good at these shortcuts…
Not, really what I am looking for. But thanks!
@neilg3 Have you tried the Bear specific shortcuts rather than x-callback?
You could use the ‘Open Bear Note’ shortcut action with the current date custom formatted as the title - it’s a single action and will open today’s (titled) note.
Wow! That’s it… so simple. Sorry for back-and-forth.
I’m not great at shortcuts either but Bear makes it easier with excellent shortcut actions
Yes, I did wonder about this - probably need to add some year syntax to the note titles.
Just deleted my responses since your shortcut was the simplest one 
I also thought it would be better to include year in title, but I tested the shortcut as it is, and it will open the last edited one when duplicate note titles (next years).
So guess it’s ok if one wants a clean title.
But adding tags like #journal/2024 or something could also remedy that.
Tip: Use BetterTouchTool to assign a handy keyboard shortcut to this.
I use Fn+T.
I used to use Alfred, and now Keyboard Maestro, for a quick text action that creates a YYYY-MM-DD-hhss header and a #Journal/YYYY/MM tag at the bottom (below a horizontal rule).
I use !entry for the replacement action. Works perfectly.
The original question is about how to open an existing note, yet all of the solutions are about creating a new note.
I want to use Keyboard Maestro to open an existing Bear note using a Regular Expression match to the title.
Any ideas?
I can’t think of a way to use a RE for a search in Bear via API or UI. I don’t use Keyboard Maestro and I’m unsure if you can apply this to your workflow but maybe you can use Bear’s /search to get an unrefined set of results as JSON and then use the RE on the same data.
