Bear MCP server

This is a small helper that connects your AI assistant to the Bear note-taking app on your Mac. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI to find notes, open a note by its title, or list your tags, and it will read them straight from Bear. It is handy if you keep a lot of notes in Bear and want to search them by chatting instead of clicking around.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something about your Bear notes, like finding notes about a topic or opening a note by its title. The AI passes that request to this helper. The helper opens your Bear database, which is the file where Bear keeps your notes, and runs a read-only search. It sends the matching notes or tags back to the AI, and the AI shows them to you in the chat.

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What you can do with it

• Search your Bear notes for a word or phrase
• Open a specific note by its title or ID
• List all the tags you use in Bear
• Show every note that has a certain tag
• Look things up in your notes without leaving the chat

Try asking your AI

• “Find all my notes about project management”
• “Show me my note titled Meeting Notes - March 2025”
• “What tags do I have in my Bear notes?”
• “Show me all notes with the #work tag”

What it gives back to you

You get back the notes or tags that match what you asked for, shown as text in the chat. For a search, that usually means a list of note titles and their contents. For tags, you get a list of tag names. Nothing is changed in Bear, it only reads.

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Who it's for

Bear users on a Mac who want to search and read their notes by chatting with an AI assistant.