The ChatGPT mockup looks like it was done by a designer who has never seen a Mac. UI sections that Bike uses are already present in Finder as well. See the attached screenshot: the sidebar floats, and the inspector is attached to the content layer. All of this is standard interface elements present in AppKit and SwiftUI already. No need to reinvent the wheel here.
That would be way too easy! I did try, didnāt feel right for me and for Bike. Design I seem to be ending up with I like a lot. And donāt worry, very far away from that ChatGPT brainstorm image too.
Thanks for sharing, but I still dislike glass design for productivity apps like this. For example where the sidebar isa almost touching the note indicator. Yuck! And all those floating controls in the upper right with fancy post processing, for what I feel like is no good reason, yuck! 
With that said I suspect Iāll slowly move toward Liquid Glass, as I hope at the same time Liquid Glass slowly moves away from what it currently is. Weāll see.
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Tastes will vary there.
I have repeatedly tried hard to like OmniOutliner, but personally find that the over-modal and widget-heavy design just feels, pretty quickly, like ball-and-chain.
Too much effort at each step.
Bike is much snappier and more fluid, visually quieter, more open and standards-compliant, and, for my purposes, lends itself to more powerful customisations,
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Wish the same!!!
Totally agree, it feels right at home, very clean and simple but powerful! Hopefully one day we will have iOS version of Bike ā at least as a viewer!
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I feel the same way. When I first started looking for writing software, many bloggers recommended OmniOutliner, so I used it for about three years. The more I used it, though, I realized that while itās powerful, the typing experience always felt a bit clunky and laggy. Once I started writing longer text, the sidebar would turn every single line into a headingāthis forced heading structure is handy sometimes, but it can also get really messy. Later on, in the Ulysses forum, someone mentioned both OmniOutliner and Bike. I was curious because Iād always thought Bike was just an app for travel journals and planning. So I downloaded it to try it out, and the second I typed my first character, I could tell the typing experience was incredible. Now Iām planning to move all my documents from OmniOutliner 6 over to Bike, and I also want to try writing fiction with it and see how it feels.
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