/bear-to-paper

Migrate your Bear notes to Paper

Primary LanguagePython

Bear to Dropbox Paper Migration Tool

I really liked Bear, but I also sometimes need to access notes on other computers. This tool will migrate exported Bear (markdown format) notes into Paper.

Instructions

First, you'll need to get a Dropbox access token:

  1. Go to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create.
    1. Select "Dropbox API" as your API selection.
    2. Select "Full Dropbox" as the access level.
    3. Enter a name for your new app -- I chose "Bear to Paper".
  2. You'll then be shown the app configuration page.
    1. Click "Generate access token"
    2. Save this token somewhere. You'll be asked for this again when you start the migration process

Then, you can migrate your notes:

export DROPBOX_API=YOUR_KEY
python cmdline.py /path/to/exported/markdown/files