Update to Bike

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Posted by Amontillado
Mar 13, 2023 at 05:50 PM

Version 1.9 is out. There are statistics and focus navigation, new scrolling options, and nice features.

The new focus navigation menu may cause some confusion. It did for me, anyway.

You have to focus on something before the focus navigation menu is active.

If item 100 is indented four levels, you can’t use the focus navigation until you focus on that line with Outline->Focus in.

Then, the focus navigation menu will show the enclosing ancestry of that line. You can broaden the focus, but you can’t narrow it from that menu. If you want to focus on a sub-item in a focused view, click on the line and use Outline->Focus in.

You broaden the focus to items you can’t currently see with the focus navigation menu. You narrow the focus by choosing a visible line and using Outline->Focus in.

Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 13, 2023 at 07:25 PM

At least he hasn’t abandoned this product ... yet

Posted by Amontillado
Mar 13, 2023 at 07:40 PM

Yes, here’s hoping certain history doesn’t repeat. Bike is endearing in its simplicity.

Paul Korm wrote:
At least he hasn’t abandoned this product ... yet

Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 14, 2023 at 09:30 AM

Agreed. I was just about to ask the great man to include something like a Typewriter view when behold! he did so.

It’s a really nice little product, especially with the flexible linking and “pin on top” feature.

My other request(s): I’d really like to see a back/forward arrow option so you can return to your original document after following a link (although Bike is already capable of following said link by opening a new window, which is what I generally do).

And I’d really, really like to see a mobile version; it would work so well on iPadOS in particular. Go on, Jesse, you know you want to… ;-)

Amontillado wrote:
Yes, here’s hoping certain history doesn’t repeat. Bike is endearing in
>its simplicity.
> >Paul Korm wrote:
>At least he hasn’t abandoned this product ... yet

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