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Documentation
Scripts
- Home – Reset your outline to “home” state
- Cleanup – Collapse everything except what’s needed to show current selection.
- Today – Create a simple calendar structure for todays date.
- Thesaurus – Generate list of synonym from current word
- Paste to Mail – Bike Outline to Mail.app indented text
- Focus Beam – Move focus to sibling of current focus
- Block Travel – Move to next visible empty line
- Markdown to Bike – Ruby script markdown lists to Bike outline
- Simple word count – Get the number of words in the front Bike document
- Toggle a prefix character – Add or clear a given prefix in all selected lines
- Toggling checked ⇄ unchecked box in selected rows – Toggling single character unicode checkbox prefixes and their state
- Toggle a Markdown checkbox in selected lines – Cycle between
[ ],[x]and no prefix. - Collapse or Expand one level more – Expand or collapse the whole outline step by step.
- Toggle a @done tag in selected rows – Toggle a plain or time-stamped tag.
- Copy as Bulleted Plain Text – A variant
Copy As, adding bullets to non-empty rows, in a tab-indented plain text outline. - Copy as CSV – Copy selected rows into CSV format
- ChatGPT – Use Bike as an interface for sending queries and receiving responses from ChatGPT
- Bike macros for Keyboard Maestro – Various
- Obsidian plugin to import Bike outlines
- Raycast Extension for Bike – Execute common Bike tasks using Raycast commands.
Shortcuts
Shortcuts to use with Bike 1.11 or later on macOS 13 or later:
- Shortcuts Tutorial including shortcuts to Cleanup, Save Tabs, Show Matches, and Today.
- Move to ancestor – Move selection to current rows to ancestor row
- Document Hub – Create links from a “hub” document to new documents. A way to create a “document library” style interaction for Bike.