Anyone experimenting with using Bike in conjunction with DEVONthink may find the following helpful (a terminal setting which prevents DEVONthink from changing the name and format of Bike files):
I’m just adding a note here (after the fact) meaning that I just saw this excellent advice, particularly in the link to the Jack Baty Wiki, after I had made the error.
In short, I had indexed a .bike file in DevonThink, not realizing that the DT3 had converted the Bike file from .bike to .html behind the scenes. The result for me was that the original Bike file broke and I needed Jesse’s help in DM to repair my original .bike file
I’m just reposting my experience so that anyone out there on the Bike forum will take care and pay attention to what could happen when indexing Bike files in DevonThink. I’ll point out that I wasn’t using DT3 as a template, rather I was simply indexing the Bike files. Thus, I caution anyone out there to be careful with the DevonThink3 & Bike app interaction because assuredly, DevonThink will alter the file type and potentially break Bike.
@complexpoint has offered solid advice with the links above. Wish I’d looked at these earlier, but impulsivity often wins the day.
Thanks for these links and thanks to Jesse for the repair assistance,
Hi there, resurrecting this post. I have Devonthink 4 so I guess the proposed solution is not going to work. Although I also had a hard time understanding it.
Is there a way to create bike files from within Devonthink that can later be opened and edited with bike?
Definitely, I’m using Bike 1 and followed the steps mentioned before. What happens is that the only way for devonthink to search the file is if it’s rendered as html, which is hard to look at. Other than at, I can open and preview it without any issues.
