Open Bear Daily Note

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This shortcut creates a daily note for you, or opens today’s if it already exists. The note will have a title of the date in ISO8601 format (e.g. 2023-07-21) and a tag organizing notes by year and month. The shortcut will search for existing notes with a matching title and tag, to avoid creating duplicates.

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This text item is where you (optionally) set up a template for each daily note. The default is just some blank space, but if you want you can add headings and sections for goals, reflections, etc. using standard markdown like this: ## Goals - ## Reflections -

TEXT

VARIABLES

Set variable

template

to

Text

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This text item is where you set your top level tag prefix. Under this tag, child tags will be created to capture the year and month. So a value of “journal” here will result in tags of the form #journal/2023/07 which lets you easily find all of a month’s notes.

TEXT

journal

VARIABLES

Set variable

tag prefix

to

Text

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To customize your note titles, edit this date format item. You can add text before or after by wrapping it in single quotes in the format string. For more information: https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/custom-date-formats-apd8d9b19184/ios

DATE

Current Date

CALENDAR

Format

Date

Options Under Construction

VARIABLES

Set variable

title

to

Formatted Date

CALENDAR

Format

Current Date

Options Under Construction

VARIABLES

Set variable

tag date

to

Formatted Date

Error Loading Action

VARIABLES

Set variable

tag

to

Combined Text

Under Construction

SCRIPTING

Repeat with each item in

Notes

SCRIPTING

If

Repeat Item

contains

tag

SCRIPTING

If

Repeat Item

contains

title

BEAR

Open

Repeat Item

Note Identifier

7A544B90-3B94-4...

SCRIPTING

Exit shortcut with

Result

End If

End Repeat

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Combining the template and our computed tag here is a workaround for odd behavior in Bear Version 2.0.3 (11772) regarding empty space (either blank lines or list markdown) and the tags added by the Create action.

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template

#

tag

BEAR

Create

title

with

Text