jessegrosjean

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   by jessegrosjean 4y ago

   I think yes, but no plans are really set in stone at this point. I agree a navigation bar would help navigation in big outlines.
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   by jessegrosjean 4y ago

   Thanks for history link, just spent 15 minutes looking through my own website :)
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   by jessegrosjean 4y ago

   Markdown is great and I build another app, FoldingText, around it. But for my own use I over time realized that was a mistake. All the parsing and formatting adds complexity. I think rich text (which to be clear Bike does not yet have, thou
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   by jessegrosjean 4y ago

   I haven't looked too much into it. If someone really wanted it and was motivated to help write I would (might, contact me first) support, but generally the existing formats are what I will focus on.
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   by jessegrosjean 4y ago

   I don't think I want to add to many specialized shortcuts, but if you ask in the hogbaysoftware support forums I'm happy to write an AppleScript to do this, and then that can be assigned a keyboard shortcut. Also generally for col
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   by jessegrosjean 4y ago

   I think the architecture needed to support them means the total package is less than most apps. For example consider scrolling: In Bike it's fast enough that when you scroll it just updates what you can see on the screen. This means yo
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   by jessegrosjean 4y ago

   I made WriteRoom which coined "Distraction free writing". Good fullscreen mode for Bike is on my list for sure.
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   by jessegrosjean 4y ago

   It can feel that way for some people. Seems different per user, there's a preference to change the speed in settings. Also yet need to remember that you don't need to wait for it, sometimes you might just get mesmerized by it and
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   by jessegrosjean 4y ago

   Sorry about that. I'm a one guy does many things. Maybe I missed on video sound, but it's tricky trying to make a text editor look interesting. I thought the music helped.
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Yeah, Bike's not a very good name for searches, but it's a good name for what the app intends to be.
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    This nice think outliners can do that editors generally can't do is Focus In / Out. Maybe not important for your thought process, but for me I really like being about to start new on a fresh "page", while still being in
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Nice think about Mindnode and Bike is copy/paste between the two works quite well.
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    That's the plan among other things. Get a license ;)
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Thanks! Bike's editor is pretty much: OutlinerLayer RowLayers LineFragmentLayers I use CoreText to line break and render into each LineFragmentLayer. A whole new level of performance is possible if I knew more metal/opengl, but
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    I think Bike is more "tool for thought" than it is tool for notes. It's more like a text editor with some magic features, then it is like a directory of text files. So value proposition... It's a unique surface for your
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    It is available here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bike-outliner/id1588292384?mt=... Mac App Store version is subscription based. I know many people don't like that, that's why my direct download v
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Sorry I don't. So much still to do on Bike, I think my time is better spent building up the app feature set.
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Maybe, I'll have to see how it goes. My main goal is to sell enough copies so I can keep working on it. Last few years I've had to spend a bunch of time contracting. Hoping this will get me back to full time independent.
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Does Dynalist support OPML? Nice thing about OPML is you can be in all camps at once. Or use Dynalist as iOS solution. I'm still looking for best outliner to recommend for Bike files on iOS until I get my act together and make iOS vers
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Thanks for the tip, I'll keep a reference to this. I will say that it's still unlikely that I tackle this myself anytime soon. I'm a single programmer, and not all that fast at that. Lots of more basic stuff to do on Bike, an
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    I want more structure in the file format. OPML is perfect for plain text outliners. But if you want to support rich text then you need to encode the HTML as plain text. This means it's all of the sudden harder to process with web tools
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Thanks, that's also a pretty key aspect of Bike. Maybe more important than "fluid animation", but I expect hyping up the fluid animation will get more clicks and people can discover the unconstrained text editor after using i
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    "fluidity" is a made up marketing term (by me) to mean animation. But I think this animation is important. Bike is a "tool for thought". I think the way that it "feels/animation" is important. Bike's
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    > Do you think you could add support for pandoc to export to other formats and import things? Maybe, but not likely soon. Bike does already provide read/write support for .bike (html subset), .opml, and .txt. I think best route is t
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Thanks, sorry not yet font option. I expect to add TaskPaper like stylesheets in the medium future, then there will be many style options.
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    I think basic iCloud syncing between Macs should already work, just as part of the fact that Bike saves your outlines to some Mac OS file (not database). I know I need to do iOS support, as long as I stay financially viable I will do iOS su
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    There are some editor preferences that need a license and AppleScript support requires a license. Going forward I expect most new features will also require a license. For example I hope to add rich text support next and that will require a
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    They both provide many great features, but Bike provides some unique features too. I think they are pretty well listed on Bike's home page (features), but I'll add some notes here: 1. "Fluid" (smoothly animated) editing.
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    I've written about Bike's relationship to TaskPaper here: https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/how-does-bike-relate-to... I think core summary is: 1. Wanted to control own text editor. Building off NSTextView
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    by jessegrosjean 4y ago

    Early in Bike's development I did try a few solutions, but I want Bike to work on somewhat big files. See ( https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/moby-dick-workout/ ). Anytime I loaded such a file into a sync so