Import from Bear
Bear Settings → Backup → JSON export. [[wikilinks]] are converted into page mentions automatically after the import.
Export from Bear
Open Bear settings
On macOS: the menu bar → Bear → Settings (Preferences in older versions). On iOS: ⓘ at the top left → Backups.
Backup tab → Backup all notes
Click 'Data → Backup all notes' and you are offered .bear2bk or JSON. Choose JSON.
Choose where to save it
Save it to Downloads or the desktop. The file name is usually of the form bear-export-YYYY-MM-DD.json.
Import into Tabple
Settings → Backup → Import notes
Under Settings → Backup, press 'Open the import screen' on the 'Import notes from another tool' card (or go straight to /settings/import), then pick a project.
Choose the file on the Bear card
Press 'Choose file' on the Bear card, or drag a .json file onto it.
Check the automatic wikilink conversion
After the import, a '[[page name]]' pattern is turned into a page mention chip (@page) automatically whenever a page with the same name exists.
Conversion rules
- One note → one Wiki page. The path of the first tag (
work/clientA) maps to the page tree (folders) — the same structure as the Bear sidebar titlefirst; if absent, extracted from the first line ofbody(leading#stripped); if neither exists, 'Untitled'- The body (recognized under any of the
body,content, ortextkeys) is converted from markdown to editor JSON - Automatic [[wikilink]] conversion — kept as text during the markdown conversion, then replaced with a page mention chip by the import's 2-pass title matching. If no match is found, the original text stays
creationDate/modificationDate→ preserved as the page's created and modified times- Tags that are not in the body are preserved as a
#tagparagraph at the very top of the body
Cautions
- What the import does not handle today — Bear's editor appearance settings are not preserved. If a note has several tags it is placed only under the first one (a Tabple page belongs in one place only).
- Images in the body are converted according to the behavior of the markdown-to-editor converter — external URLs are kept as they are, and since data URLs have no separate R2 upload path, a large base64 blob can be left inline in the body.
- There is no official Bear JSON export, so the output format of community conversion tools is assumed — both a
notesarray and a root array are recognized. - A note that is still syncing may be left out of the export, so wait a moment before backing up.
- Each file can be at most 50MB. You can start an import 3 times a minute, 15 times an hour, and 50 times a day; once you hit a limit, try again after the time shown in the message.
- The number of Wiki pages stays within the project owner's plan limit (Free 100 · paid plans unlimited). If the notes you are importing would go past what is left, the import is rejected.