Timer / schedule

[adamprocter]

Will Bike get a timer / schedule feature like folding text I use that quite a bit still but am hoping to shift to Bike this year

[jessegrosjean]

I hope yes, but not in near term. Within a year, hard to say, but probably not within 6 months.

[Tommy]

If I could upvote this request I would. It is quite a unique feature in any app, I truly miss it in Bike which I love and use everyday.

[jessegrosjean]

I’m afraid still a while on this feature, one day I think so, but I don’t see it being added soon. To many other more basic things to work on.

[Jacoby]

I made an account to request this same feature. I use Bike as my always on schedule of the day for elementary students and this would be really helpful.

[jessegrosjean]

Bike’s still not ready for this, and likely won’t be for a while. Still a ways to go on 2.0. Then need to work on iOS. Schedule is a long way out I’m afraid.

I wonder if this would be worthwhile as a separate app? I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about future collaboration/sync for when Bike has iOS version. Part of that has been to build little dummy apps to test collaboration and sync out. Maybe I could use the scheduler as a test case for that work.

It wouldn’t be as flexible as a Bike implementation, but maybe enough. I’m basically just thinking:

1. Schedule has a flat list of items
2. Schedule has a start time
3. Each item has text and a duration
4. Highlight “current” item based off start time and items durations

I’ve always thought FoldingText’s schedule implementation was pretty neat, but many of the times where I think it would be useful (for example sports practices!) aren’t really great environments for complexity of an outliner.

Can’t promise I’ll do any of this, but would it be useful?

[adamprocter]

Folding texts one was excellent
Sounds good
I dont mind another small focussed app on this for sure!
I will still keep paying for Bike

[Jacoby]

I totally understand.

That idea would be absolutely useful. I can’t think of anything else like that.
Folding text’s was really great, but that is the gist of what I am looking for.

I have used something similar when teaching during COVID and schedules were very hectic.

In a classroom what you are describing would be really appreciated. Often inside of a math or reading block there are multiple rotations happening with 15-20 minute tasks. Something like that dummy app would be briliant.

[adamprocter]

This is exactly my use case, for student presentations and workshops, and the biggest use for a timer academic conferences