# Bear to Obsidian

Write in Bear and find every tagged note in your Obsidian vault.

## 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

```text
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](https://exporter.dev/docs/bear).

## Related

- [Bear](https://exporter.dev/docs/bear): Tag folders, attachments and fixes
- [Bear](https://exporter.dev/bear): Bear notes in a folder, free, no limit
- [Logseq to Obsidian](https://exporter.dev/guides/logseq/logseq-to-obsidian): Your graph as an Obsidian-ready folder

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human version: https://exporter.dev/guides/bear/bear-to-obsidian
every page: https://exporter.dev/llms.txt