roadmap: feature releases

[vasylenko]

Release Roadmap

Organizes the feature shortlist from #56 into themed releases.
Version numbers will be assigned at release time based on semver.

Tags and DB connection

Internal quality improvements. No new user-facing tools, no documentation changes.

• improve: use JOIN-based tag filtering instead of text LIKE matching #67 — improve: use JOIN-based tag filtering instead of text LIKE matching
• improve: enforce read-only SQLite connection at driver level #68 — improve: enforce read-only SQLite connection at driver level

Note Editing

Biggest capability unlock: users (and LLMs) can now truly edit notes, not just append. Gated behind UI_ENABLE_CONTENT_REPLACEMENT opt-in.

• feat: replace content under a specific note header #58 — feat: replace content under a specific note header
• feat: replace entire note content #59 — feat: replace entire note content

Smarter Reading

More precise and efficient note access. Both enhance the existing bear-open-note tool.

• feat: open note by title #60 — feat: open note by title
• feat: extract specific section by header when reading a note #61 — feat: extract specific section by header when reading a note

More native tools

Three new tools wrapping Bear-native x-callback-url actions.

• feat: save web page as a Bear note (grab URL) #62 — feat: save web page as a Bear note (grab URL)
• feat: rename tag across all notes #63 — feat: rename tag across all notes
• feat: delete tag from all notes #64 — feat: delete tag from all notes

Not milestoned yet

Both need feasibility research before implementation. See open questions in each issue.

• feat: discover related notes by tags and content #65 — feat: discover related notes by tags and content
• infra: capture x-callback-url responses from Bear #66 — infra: capture x-callback-url responses from Bear

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Versioning Notes

• All changes are additive (new tools or new optional parameters on existing tools). No backward-incompatible changes identified.
• improve: use JOIN-based tag filtering instead of text LIKE matching #67 (JOIN-based tag filtering) technically changes search behavior by removing false-positive matches, but this is a bug fix, not a breaking change.
• Releases are ordered by risk/dependency: foundation first, then features, then research-needed items.
• Version numbers assigned at release time following semver.

[vasylenko]

Migrated to Linear (SVA-8). Closing this issue.