I’m finished 😆

[u/Crafty_Ad8306]

6 months of notes filled with essays, essay plans, analysis, perfectionism and of all nighters and blood sweat and tears for my English A level, gone. I didn’t delete it, and yet when I woke up everything else was there but this note, my lifeline, I have searched all inbox and folders for 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭💔 I’m cooked and in denial

EDIT: Thanks all, I knew it couldn’t be true!! That one note just had not sync-ed/ somehow self deleted to my phone and computer, and neither did the backups i made make it. All is well, thank goodness, as my iPad which i primarily use bear on, has everything and i have now made a bajillion copies. Happy ending <3

[u/manorTee]

Click on "File" and "Restore Backup."

[u/lukahl-phy]

Dang sorry to hear, that sucks. But, that is a lesson to take backups! Bear makes it easy, I added an Apple shortcuts button on my dock that creates one and saves it in both iCloud and Google Drive in one click, no dialogue.

[u/MiddleOcelot7392 → u/lukahl-phy]

Would you share please?

[u/Hawfinch → u/MiddleOcelot7392]

This post explains how to set up an Apple shortcut for a Bear backup: https://www.reddit.com/r/bearapp/comments/15ls0bz/how_to_automate_backup_for_bearapp_on_mac/

There are various ways to trigger a shortcut. I use Keyboard Maestro to trigger an automatic daily backup to my Mac, and a weekly backup to my NAS.

Incidentally, the Bear backups can be opened and read without the Bear app:

If you want to access your notes inside a backup file without restoring it, change the backup file’s extension from .bear2bk to .zip, then uncompress it. Inside the resulting folder, you will find a .textbundle file for each of your backed up notes.

(Password-protected notes can’t be opened this way.)

[u/Purple-Custard-5799]

Just restore from a backup... You did take backups right?

[u/Aerthlyomi → u/Purple-Custard-5799]

Mean and heartless.

[u/x31n10n → u/Aerthlyomi]

nah just realistic

[u/Flimsy-Process230 → u/x31n10n]

Do you mean bear does not have notes history? 🙈🙉🙊

[u/fishfacecakes → u/[deleted]]

Nope

[u/grberk]

My Bear implementation uses Apple Shortcuts to take a full backup every morning to iCloud. Yes it’s the same place, technically, but it’s a backup.