New app, Bike

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 22, 2022 at 04:20 PM

Congratulations, Jesse, on being awarded a “Best App Runner-Up” award by MacStories. Very warm words were said about Bike (link here: https://www.macstories.net/stories/macstories-selects-2022-recognizing-the-best-apps-of-the-year/)

Worth mentioning here, following my earlier comparison, that both Bike and OutlineEdit are very efficient apps. In this age of oversized, Electron-based apps, it’s really nice to find highly functional apps with a minimal footprint. The same applies to Zavala, actually, as well as Notebooks and anything/everything programmed by the wonderful developer of Growly Notes.

A suggestion for you, Jesse, following my irritating experiences in e.g. Obsidian and various other folding outliners:

It would be very useful if one could put a top-level divider (nice, elegant slim line) below a folded section, and if the folding from the “parent” of that section went down as far as the divider, but left the latter visible. Let me explain:

Most (all?) outliners currently fold dividers into the text immediately above them. If you’re a pedantic b*st*rd like me, this means you get a whole column of folded headings which can be difficult to group or differentiate. If, on the other hand, one could insert a top-level divider which would be left untouched by the folding, you could use such dividers to group sections together, or simply differentiate them more clearly.

I don’t know if I’ve explained that very well, but would be happy to give it another go!