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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install --cask bike
About Bike
Bike is a Mac outliner for thinking, writing and organizing, built to stay quick even with very large outlines. It aims to combine the structure of an outliner with the freedom of a text editor, and it is designed to be light on memory and battery.
Row types add structure such as headings, ordered lists and task lists, and there are live word counts. Standard file formats, Shortcuts support and scripting let Bike fit into existing workflows, as the main app for a large project or as a side app for notes.
Strengths
- Stays fast with very large outlines
- Row types for headings, ordered lists and task lists
- Standard file formats, Shortcuts support and scripting
- Light on memory and battery
Limitations
- Mac only
- Paid app
Details
- Pricing
- PaidA paid app, available to download directly or from the Mac App Store.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Hog Bay Software
- Platforms
- macOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Mac users who write and plan in outlines
- Categories
- Note-taking, Office tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Bike
Compare allSoftware that can replace Bike for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
OmniOutliner
An outlining app for Mac, iPad, iPhone and Vision Pro for structuring ideas and documents.
OmniOutliner adds columns with calculations and attachments, and one purchase covers Mac, iPad, iPhone and Vision Pro, while Bike runs only on the Mac.
Workflowy
A nested outliner that organizes notes, lists and projects as a single tree of bullets.
Workflowy is a nested outliner with apps on every desktop, mobile and the web, but it requires an account and cloud sync and caps new nodes on the free plan.
Checkvist
A keyboard-driven online outliner for building nested task lists, checklists and research notes.
Checkvist is a keyboard-driven outliner that runs as an online service in the browser, with sharing options and import and export, rather than a local Mac app.
Logseq
An outliner that stores notes as plain Markdown files, built around a daily journal and linked blocks.
Logseq is an AGPL-3.0 outliner storing Markdown files with block linking and a daily journal on all platforms, though start-up slows with large graphs.
Org mode
A GNU Emacs major mode for notes, outlines, to-do lists and documents kept in plain text.
Org mode offers plain-text outlines, tasks and documents under GPL-3.0 on Windows, macOS and Linux, but it requires GNU Emacs and has a steep learning curve.
Roam Research
A networked note-taking outliner for connecting related ideas into a graph of linked notes.
Roam Research is a web-based paid outliner focused on linked notes and a graph, adding real-time collaboration but losing native Mac files and scripting.
TreeSheets
Organize ideas in a grid of nested cells.
TreeSheets is a free Zlib-licensed cross-platform tool that nests outlines inside spreadsheet-like grids, a structure that takes some adjustment compared with rows.
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RemNote
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VYM
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