I have just now jumped onto the preview and I love the defaults in 132, the arrows where a wonderful suprose and I liked them straight away.
At the moment I am using Bike for fast notes and outline ideas and then moving into Ullysses for writing, although I keep thinking I should use Obsidian, but they need to sort out OPML support, to much spacing, and I am really liking the Ullysses writing checker stuff these days, feels like that what i kinda pay for 
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My wish is that I would really like Bike to get a schedule function like folding text, as I often use this to run class sessions and timings
I do think this will eventually be possible, but will be a while still. I would like this sort of feature to happen via in-app scripts/plugins. So need to build that system first.
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Well this release has been dragging, but I think over the hump now.
The big āfeatureā holding things back is the license renewal system. Not an exciting feature exactly, but a necessary feature to make Bike sustainable so it can still around for the long term. I thought I was going to get it working one way, tried that for a long time, then changed course. I think itās working now, but itās not all that well tested.
If you are willing please try out the renewal system and let me know how it goes. This coupon will give you an extra 50% off: ########. I will disable this code after getting a few orders through, so use it now if you want to use it.
Few things to pay attention too:
- Are you asked to renew? You should asked if you got your license prior to today - 1 year.
- Go to the Settings > License panel. Does the reported āunlocks releases untilā date seem right? Should be the day you got your license + 1 year.
- Also is the text in those dialogues clear to you?
- If you decide to renew use the coupon above and let me know how it goes. Generally the āunlocks releases untilā date should change to today + 1 year.
Renew checks happen on app startup. So if for some reason your order takes a long time to process and Bike canāt refresh status immediately, restart Bike a bit later and see if status has changed by then.
Update Iāve disabled that coupon code. Thanks for everyone who tested. Seems the license renewal system is operational.
I was asked to renew, and found the whole process smooth and straightforward. I already see the updated license info (updates through June 6, 2024).
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Was easy to do. There was a little message to renew in top right part of screen in white/gray. To be honest, I was looking for something like that, but in normal circumstances I might not have noticed it. For something like a reweal probably need something āless subtleā. But the process itself worked just fine.
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I think I will leave as is. I want people to be able to use in locked state without too much distraction. The only time you really need to renew is when you want to use a locked feature, and then youāll see an alert.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that. So your approach is perfect then.
The process was straightforward and most of the UI copy makes sense. TBH, when you said, āAre you asked to renew?ā I expected to get some sort of popup or something on startup. It took me a while to notice the āRenew Licenseā in the corner. The actual re-licensing worked smoothly, no hiccups.
āUnlocks releases before ā makes sense, but the ābeforeā throws me a bit. āuntilā conveys that itās more of an end date, imo.
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I started with āUntilā, and might go back to it. The reason that I changed is because until seemed like it might be read as āeverything is locked, old and new releaseā after that date.
I changed the display to a range in the latest release:
I think that makes things a lot clearer, what the licenses capabilities are. If anyoneās got a better term for āDawn of Timeā Iām open to suggestions. I wanted to get the point across that ALL previous releases. Dawn of Time is a cute way to do that, but if there was a simpler term or symbol that might be better.
I also did now show appās build date in the case where the licenseās date range doesnāt cover the current release. And I also add progress spinner when unlocking.
Iāve submitted this version to Apple, I need to update some docs and screenshots, but hope to get this version out the door in next few days.
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This should show up as non-preview release now.