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All commands output JSON by default. Add --plain for human-readable output.

Account

Returns your account info including name, email, and Pro status.

Items

List items

Get an item

Save a URL

Update an item

Delete an item

Full-text search across Matter, ranked by relevance. Results are grouped by type.

Search operators

Annotations

List annotations

Get an annotation

Update an annotation

Delete an annotation

Tags

List all tags

Rename a tag

Delete a tag

Add a tag to an item

Creates the tag if it doesn’t exist.

Remove a tag from an item

Auth

Log in

Interactive TUI

Also launches when you run matter with no arguments. See Interactive TUI for keyboard shortcuts.

Self-update

The CLI auto-updates in the background. New releases are downloaded while your command runs and applied on the next invocation. To update immediately instead:

Readonly mode

Enable readonly mode to prevent write operations (save, update, delete):
When enabled, all write commands will be rejected with an error.