dear all,
just started to play with Bike (through a Setapp account). Sounds great to outline academic texts!
My main concern so far is that Bike cannot render markdown-formatted text pasted from another app (e.g., nvUltra). Also, the markdown-formatted text written in Bike cannot be properly pasted in another app as markdown.
I stumbled upon Brett Terpstra’s script: Markdown to Bike conversion - BrettTerpstra.com but it would be great if Bike had a better markdown cross-compatibility… Or I missed something?
thanks!
best,
ph
Generally Bike doesn’t have any direct Markdown support, so you’ll need to use some external conversion if you want to use markdown with Bike… Bike can read/write plain text files, so you could view markdown that way, but the Markdown wouldn’t be highlighted.
I’m not quite sure what you mean.
Bike has a few “markdown inspired” formatting behaviors, such as type #, followed by a space, to make a heading… but that’s just a formatting shortcut, Bike’s a rich text editor and the # is forgotten once the heading row type is set.
If you mean that you are typing markdown formatting in your outline (not seeing highlighting, just typing formatting characters), but can’t copy/paste into Markdown editor, then one thing you can try is to paste using Edit > Paste and Match Style. I think that should work.
Dear Jesse,
thx for your reply. I now get that Bike is a RTF-based app, not a Markdown-based one.
maybe a “Paste as Markdown“ option which properly renders Markdown within Bike would be worth adding to the roadmap?
thx,
best,
ph
maybe a “Paste as Markdown“ option which properly renders Markdown within Bike would be worth adding to the roadmap?
Improved markdown is only list for sure, but it’s not a big priority right now. Just too many other things to get to, and I feel like all the details of Markdown support could take up a bunch of time.