{"id":35900,"date":"2022-05-17T15:18:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35900"},"modified":"2022-05-24T14:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:54:33","slug":"bike-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/17\/bike-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Grosjean<\/a> (tweet<\/a>, Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Bike is a macOS (11 and later) native outliner. Bike has good performance on big outlines. Bike uses open file formats and is scriptable too. Use Bike to record and process your ideas.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Outliners are powerful but constraining. Text editors are freeing but weak on structure. Bike is good<\/a> at both<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Bike uses open file formats<\/a>. The .bike<\/code> file format is HTML–you can view it in your web browser. Bike also supports .opml<\/code> and .txt<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It really is fast. I love the open formats. What’s cool is that it doesn’t just export to OPML and plain text; you can directly edit and save files in those formats, too, and convert between them. I used it to convert some of my big OmniOutliner files to plain text, for easier access on my iPhone and within BBEdit. I can edit a file in both BBEdit and Bike at the same time, and each app recognizes changes from the other. The plain text format just uses tabs and newlines for structure (no leading -<\/code> or *<\/code> to mark items), so it works great with lots of tools. Bike supports multiple levels of hoisting\/focusing. It’s $29.99 direct and $2.99\/month or $19.99\/year in the Mac App Store.<\/p>\n\n

See also: How does Bike relate to TaskPaper?<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n