Obsidian plug in

Bike Outliner
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Bike is so fast and l am slowly getting into being able to use it semi productivly as a note taking tool but I was wondering if I could use the same files in an Obsidian vault and take advatage of the canvas view and perhaps other things. Obsidian cant read the .bike files and if changed to md or plaintext you lose bike stuff… does anyone know if there could be an Obsidian plug in to read .bike files Build a plugin - Developer Documentation - this plug in seems to be doing something GitHub - hanbyul-kim/Bike-to-Obsidian - but I am not sure if that removed any of the Bike stuff ? and as its not in the community plugin in list to install you need BRAT ? which was a step I have yet to look at - thoughts welcome

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Looks like a file conversion from structured Bike XML to a flat plain text (with Markdown formatting markup), so yes, it would discard .bike attributes like row ids, and links which reference them.

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It’s clearly going to be helpful at some point to have an environment that aggregates collections of Bike files into searchable and queryable databases, but I don’t think Obsidian will be that environment – its architecture assumes plain text files.

(Some of these things are possible with standard tools – XQuery [perhaps with XInclude, depending on the specific choice of XQuery processor] over folders of .bike files, for example, but nothing yet out-of-the-box)

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Bringing this up again in regards to Bike 2.0 - would be great to have the ability for my bike files to be in an obsidian vault

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Sorry, I’m still not sure. I think the solution space is:

  1. Read plain text files with Bike (loose information, but works now)
  2. Make Obsidian understand Bike files. I think this is possible, but requires and Obsidian plugin which I haven’t really investigated.
  3. Make Bike understand Markdown. I would very much like to do this, but it’s unfortunately second/third priority to my current tasks, and I don’t expect progress until sometime after 2.0 is finished. And it will still likely have some missing features, such as maybe IDs.
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