Is Bike ready for a believer-tier subscription?

[jessegrosjean]

@Gorgonzola

outline filtering and 2.0 around the corner (right @jessegrosjean ?)

It’s around some corner for sure, but I’m terrible and predicting exactly which corner.

@Gorgonzola

I’m wondering if it’s ready for further evolution into a research multi-file workspace like Roam/Logseq, with referenceable blocks, backlinks and a sidebar to offload frequently used outlines.

I’m definitely thinking about some of these things. And even working on them. Unfortunately this is also what has slowed down the 2.0 preview release. See this post for more info:

Bike 2.0 ... still going

I just finished adding created/modified date tracking for rows in Bike 2. At the same time, as you can probably guess from the preview release slowdown, I’ve gotten distracted as I think about iOS and sync. I’ve had two balls in the air over the last 8 months or so: Bike 2.0 … fix everything from 1.0 that I’ve learned from. Add some big new features. I want Bike 3.0 on iOS, but that means I need to figure out a good sync solution. And I need to relearn iOS development. It’s been a good 10 yea…

@Gorgonzola

I personally would be prepared to invest into a believer-tier subscription if this was the case simply because as an outliner, Bike is one of the best out there, and has the potential to grow into a proper research environment.

I thank you, and maybe someday, but I don’t think I’m setup to handle that right now. At least I don’t know how it would make things go any faster. I’m a long way away from being able to hire anyone else, so I think it would just be more money for same results.