Bike Outliner: Adds Row Types

Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 11, 2023 at 08:42 AM

Great to hear – thanks, Jesse.

Ah, so that’s what “outlining mode” means! I confess I was slightly baffled by this, even after searching through Bike’s online help. Now that is a really useful feature.

Jesse Grosjean wrote:
> What is it specifically about Bike that makes it useful for lists?
> >I think all outliners are pretty good at making lists. Press enter,
>type, press enter.
> >What I think makes Bike different from pretty much any outliner is the
>quality of text editing mode, combined with structured outline editing
>mode. You can see this demonstrated in demo video on website.
> >Bike’s text editing mode is unconstrained and works just as you would
>expect a plain text editor to work. There are no weird cases where the
>text caret doesn’t act right, or ends up in slightly wrong place… it’s
>a fully functional multiline text editor. Almost no outliners work this
>way, instead they are cell based, you edit one row at a time. And while
>there are ways to move from one cell to another, there are always edge
>cases where it doesn’t quite work right.
> >With the escape key Bike also has outline editing mode. In this mode
>Bikes commands work like a traditional outliner. Move a row, child rows
>come with it.
> >This combination is pretty unique, and for me makes it particularly nice
>for editing lists.
> >> I agree, tagging would be the icing on the cake. Of course you can
>> insert tags and then search for them
> >Tags are definitely on my todo list.
> >Big features that I plan to tackle (and start to complete, but probalby
>not all of them for a bit still) this fall are query language,
>filtering, tags, stylesheets. They all sorta depend on each other, so
>I’m puzzling through how exactly I’ll do it. I need query language first
>and have made progress on that. Then will figure.