Autogenerated Table of Contents for Github Markdown or Bear Notes

Generated by the script ;)

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Installation
  • PyPi (Preferred)
  • Manually
• Usage
  • Flags
  • With Bear
  • With Markdown Files

Overview

I love using Bear Notes for note taking of all sorts. Recently, Bear released a feature that allowed headers to be linked with x-callback-urls. And thus, I created a script to autogenerate a Table of Contents for your notes based on the headers.

Installation

NOTE: This program is only compatible with Python 3.x

PyPi (Preferred)

$ pip3 install markdown-toc --upgrade

Manually

$ git clone https://github.com/alexander-lee/markdown-github-bear-toc.git

$ cd markdown-github-bear-toc
$ python3 setup.py install

Usage

Flags

• -h or --header-priority is the Limiting Header Priority/Strength (whether you limit your Table of Contents to h3s or h4s)
• -t or --type is the type of anchor you want to use (Github or Bear x-callback-url)
• --no-write is a flag on whether you want to disable the feature that automatically injects the ToC into your Markdown file or Bear Note
• -toc or --table-of-contents-style is the Markdown style for your Table of Contents header

With Bear

• Add a Table of Contents to a Bear Note with the title "Bear Note Title"

$ markdown-toc -h <default: 3> -t bear [--no-write] "Bear Note Title"

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• Add a Table of Contents to a Bear Note with the UUID 20703126-FA33-400A-B98E-F55F57E3EF48-47683-000143B2335758CA

$ markdown-toc -h <default: 3> -t bear [--no-write] "20703126-FA33-400A-B98E-F55F57E3EF48-47683-000143B2335758CA"

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• Add a Table of Contents to two Bear Notes with titles "Bear Note Title 1" and "Bear Note Title 2"

$ markdown-toc -h <default: 3> -t bear [--no-write] "Bear Note Title 1" "Bear Note Title 2"

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• Add a Table of Contents to all Bear Notes that contain the tag #bear OR tag #beet

$ markdown-toc -h <default: 3> -t bear [--no-write] "#bear" "#beet"

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• This allows you to take input a list of Bear Note titles, tags, or UUIDs and will inject the ToC into your note whether or not you submit the --no-write flag.
• If you have #tags at the top of your note (cause I use them to categorize my notes), it will inject the ToC right after any tags.

Original Note	Note with ToC

With Markdown Files

• Add of a Table of Contents to README.md (Using Github Anchors)

$ markdown-toc -h <default: 3> -t github [--no-write] README.md

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• Add of a Table of Contents to README.md and Folder/README2.md (Using Github Anchors)

$ markdown-toc -h <default: 3> -t github [--no-write] README.md Folder/README2.md