Appearance
Using Sidebar
Bike's sidebar gives you quick access to navigate your outline's structure. It shows your home location, pinned items, an index of headings, and query shortcuts. A long outline can be a lot to move around in by scrolling alone. The sidebar solves that by keeping the places you jump to most always one click away.
To show the sidebar
- View > Show Sidebar (Control-Command-S)
To hide the sidebar
- View > Hide Sidebar (Control-Command-S)
Home
The top of the sidebar shows your home location. Click it to unfocus and return to the top of your outline.
Pinned Items
Pin important rows to the sidebar for quick access. Pinned items stay visible regardless of where you are focused in the outline.
To pin a row
- Select the row and use Outline > Pin Row (Command-Y)
To unpin a row
- Select the pinned row and use Outline > Pin Row (Command-Y) again
Outline > Pin Row toggles pinning. When a row is already pinned the menu item shows a checkmark, and choosing it again unpins the row. You can also right-click a pinned item in the sidebar and choose Unpin.
Index
The index section shows headings in your outline by default. Click any heading to focus into that section of your outline.
Query Shortcuts
Query shortcuts are saved outline filters. Once a filter is active you can right-click the filter field and choose Save in Sidebar to keep it here. After that, clicking the query shortcut reapplies that filter in one step, so a view you reach for often, like "all my incomplete tasks", is always a click away.
Focusing an Item
Clicking a row in the sidebar (a heading in the index, or a pinned row) focuses that row so you see just its contents.
Sometimes, though, you'd rather land on a row while still seeing it next to its siblings. Hold Command while you click and Bike focuses the item's parent instead, then selects the item inside it. The same trick works in the choice box: press Command-Return to focus a result's parent rather than the result itself.