![]() ![]() ![]() The latest posts and pages I edit in Bear are just a click away from being live on my site.Īnd anything I’ve already written in Bear is just a few edits away from being adapted for my blog.Īll layouts and includes that are used to build up pages, blog posts, and even the Atom feed on the site, are stored in my Bear app, and if I update them there, changes are just a click away from being reflected on the site.Īs a bonus, I have an offsite backup of all my notes, and I can log in using OpenID Connect, and if I’m logged in as the configured super-user for the site, I now have web-based access to all my notes, in case my Apple devices are unavailable. When I’m happy with it, I run a command that synchronizes my Bear app database with the one stored on my web server, and then it’s live. I write the post, add any images within it, and can manipulate some metadata for layout, all within the Bear note-taking app. I’m pretty sure I will still suck at regularly posting any longer-form stuff, but we’ll see!ĭall-E's rendition of a bear writing a note, stuck in a web.Īny time I want to write a new blog post, I start a new note in Bear with the tag cmsbear/post (or cmsbear/draft if I want to keep it a draft and only be able to preview it while logged in). My intent was to make it a lot less friction for myself to post small blog posts a lot more frequently, for example to document simple things I’ve learned that I think might be useful for others. ![]() If you’re interested in using it for yourself, take a look at the caveats for potential users near the end of this post. For now at least, I’m not really expecting to develop it forward as a proper project, more just putting it out there. I’ve open sourced this custom CMS (AGPL license) and made it available on GitHub. I had the idea to use Bear as a CMS for my personal site,, and started hacking away at it an embarrasingly long time ago in my so-called “free time”, and I have finally launched an updated version of this site that runs on my custom CMS, which serves up content directly from a snapshot of my Bear database. I’ve been a paid user for years, and it’s where I do most of my writing (outside of emails). I love the note-taking app Bear, available on macOS and iOS. ![]()
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