I like to use Bear as a quick capture tool that I then contribute to Obsidian. The main issue is that Bear allows spaces in their tags, and Obsidian doesn’t.
I would still like to use spaces in tags.
The proposed feature request would be a setting, under “Keep tags during export”, where if the latter is enabled, it will show a text input with the following label: “Replace spaces with:”
If left empty, the space isn’t replaced with anything.
If the space is replaced with a “dash”, then when the notes are exported, all tags will have a dash instead of a space.
It will also remove the right hashtag that’s used to allow the space in Bear.
Please forgive me for a little provocation but, why not ask Obsidian devs to support spaces in tags?
Some asked for an Obsidian exporter and I understand that might concern the path and naming of attachments, but this sounds like a limitation that can be overcome by other people or eventually with tag renaming in Bear.
I don’t think that would work. Tags are a core feature of Obsidian, and I believe that core features are immutable. Plugins have to be able to work with core features to function correctly, so a plugin that allows spaces in tags would most likely break the editor.
Besides, renaming all my Bear tags with dashes instead of spaces is simpler. The problem is I don’t know if doing so is going to make them harder to search within Bear. I put spaces in the first place because I was under the impression that the search functionality benefited from natural spacing.
For instance, if I put a dash instead, my search query would have to be “how-to” instead of “how to.”
Meh. I don’t like the look of it. Looks like we’re going to have to postpone the Bear 2 project another 20 years to implement my feature request lol
But in all seriousness, I’ve been brainstorming a solution that can handle going into Bear notes using its URL scheme and exporting the notes. I’m edging towards using an Apple shortcut since they have x-callback-url support baked in.