I have a vague memory of seeing a forum (blog?) post about how someone was writing in Bike but then also using some other note-taking app (Obsidian maybe?) to be the file manager for all Bike files? Is this something I hallucinated? Are people doing this? Is it possible? Until Bike has an integrated file browser, maybe this is an acceptable solution?
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I suppose it could work if you use plain text format and save files with an .md extension. But markdown syntax doesn’t play nice with indented text, so your results may vary.
There was also an Obsidian plugin to cleanup text when pasting from Bike to Obsidian, but that’s not what you mean.
I think Obsidian otherwise just ignores .bike and .opml files.
May be worth looking at this thread, re DEVONthink
For simple string searches across files, you can point something like The Archive (macOS) – Note Taking: Nimble, Calm, Plain.txt • Zettelkasten Method at your main folder of Bike files, and it will find most things, though it will display the HTML source.
For subtler searches over a folder full of Bike files, you can use XQuery searches, but that’s a bit more technical (script-based).
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Incidentally for the current DEVONthink 4 betas, the command line incantation required has now changed to:
defaults write com.devon-technologies.think AdditionalPlainTextExtensions -string .bike
(The difference is that the previously used identifier:
com.devon-technologies.think3
has been replaced, for the DEVONthink 4 builds, by just:
com.devon-technologies.think )
To play safe, you can run both versions at the command line.
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