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Posted by Amontillado
Aug 10, 2023 at 12:00 PM
Forgot to mention ease of use. Command-K, Escape, and control-command-arrows are the only hot keys needed to do most of what you need from the keyboard.
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.
Posted by Jack Baty
Aug 24, 2023 at 12:22 PM
There’s a hidden preference in DTP that lets you add file extensions that are to treated as plain text.
defaults write com.devon-technologies.think3 AdditionalPlainTextExtensions -string .bike
This fixed the .html problem for me. My notes: https://wiki.baty.net/#2023.07.27%20-%20Using%20.bike%20files%20as%20templates%20in%20DEVONthink
Amontillado wrote:
For a number of reasons it’s nice to make maps of content in Devonthink.
>Bike is probably my new favorite tool for that because it’s quick and
>low friction for editing lists. Devonthink links work fine in Bike
>files, so it can link to DT notes, files, groups, or tags.
>
>Yesterday I found the game changer. Devonthink recognizes links,
>backlinks, and mentions in Bike files.
>
>There is one small wrinkle, not Bike’s fault, and with an easy
>workaround.
>
>Devonthink will open and edit a Bike file. Unfortunately, it changes the
>file type from Bike to HTML and you no longer have a Bike-friendly file
>- but there’s a nice workaround.
>
>Set a smart rule to lock any file with a Bike extension on creation,
>import, or moving into the database.
>
>The lock is just within the context of Devonthink. You can still open a
>“locked” file in Bike and edit to your heart’s content. The only
>limitation is I haven’t found a way to save an empty Bike file as a
>template in Devonthink. Creating a new Bike file from a template results
>in an HTML file, not a Bike file.
>
>I grumble, but I can live with that limitation.
Posted by Amontillado
Aug 24, 2023 at 06:13 PM
Awesome! Works here, too.
Jack Baty wrote:
There’s a hidden preference in DTP that lets you add file extensions
>that are to treated as plain text.
>
>defaults write com.devon-technologies.think3
>AdditionalPlainTextExtensions -string .bike
>
>This fixed the .html problem for me. My notes:
>https://wiki.baty.net/#2023.07.27%20-%20Using%20.bike%20files%20as%20templates%20in%20DEVONthink
>
>
>Amontillado wrote:
>For a number of reasons it’s nice to make maps of content in Devonthink.
>>Bike is probably my new favorite tool for that because it’s quick and
>>low friction for editing lists. Devonthink links work fine in Bike
>>files, so it can link to DT notes, files, groups, or tags.
>>
>>Yesterday I found the game changer. Devonthink recognizes links,
>>backlinks, and mentions in Bike files.
>>
>>There is one small wrinkle, not Bike’s fault, and with an easy
>>workaround.
>>
>>Devonthink will open and edit a Bike file. Unfortunately, it changes
>the
>>file type from Bike to HTML and you no longer have a Bike-friendly file
>>- but there’s a nice workaround.
>>
>>Set a smart rule to lock any file with a Bike extension on creation,
>>import, or moving into the database.
>>
>>The lock is just within the context of Devonthink. You can still open a
>>“locked” file in Bike and edit to your heart’s content. The only
>>limitation is I haven’t found a way to save an empty Bike file as a
>>template in Devonthink. Creating a new Bike file from a template
>results
>>in an HTML file, not a Bike file.
>>
>>I grumble, but I can live with that limitation.