Bear to Obsidian

Steps

1. Make a folder for the export inside your vault, like Vault/Bear.
2. Press “connect” on the Bear card and select the folder the panel opens in.
3. Press “select export folder” and choose Vault/Bear. Leave the format row on markdown.
4. Tick the tags to export, or every tag.
5. Press “sync now”. After that, edits in Bear are written to the vault while Exporter runs.

What you get

Vault/Bear/
  recipes/
    Sourdough.md
    attachments/
  work/
    projects/
      Poster.md

Each note lands in the folder of its first tag in alphabetical order, and a nested tag like #work/projects becomes subfolders. The file is Bear’s own Markdown, exactly as Bear stores it, #tags included, with no front matter. Images and files are copied into attachments/ beside the note, with the links rewritten to the copies. Two notes with the same title under the same first tag each get their own file, with a short id at the end of the name.

Pitfalls

• A note with no tag is never exported, and neither are encrypted notes or the trash.
• Give Bear a folder of its own, not the vault root, so your notes and Bear’s stay apart. A “full resync” removes only the files Exporter wrote.
• The folder follows Bear: a note you delete, rename or retag loses its old file on the next sync.

For a one-time move, Bear’s own export and Obsidian’s Importer both work. The rest is in the Bear docs.