Bike Outliner 2 Releases

Bike 2 is in preview stage

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (279) 13 May 2026

  Added

  • Window-layout options in Settings > Document
  • Many new theme options for configuring window appearance
  • New option: Settings > Hide editor toolbars and panels when typing
  • Auto-hiding glass controls in View > Enter Full Window mode
  • Sidebar Cmd/Option+Up/Down navigation now jumps between groups
  • Use toggle behavior for Go To Sidebar/Editor/Inspector commands
  • Expanded sidebar drag-and-drop capabilities. Drag to and from most locations
  • New "indent" attribute allowing rows to be “over-indented” (Bike 1.x and TaskPaper style)

  Fixed

  • Improved row text move and delete commands
  • Ordered list numbering across viewport gaps
  • Go To issues when the sidebar had not yet been made visible
  • IME improvements, including fixes for Korean input and likely others
  • Improved per-window restorable state (more state restored, with better accuracy)
  • Fixed a problem where pasted rows could appear in a broken collapsed state
  • Fold state restoration for rows without a persistent ID

  Changed

  • New documents now start with one empty row
  • Many refinements to the default theme (see as example for new options)
  • Collapse Row now folds only selection-cover rows, not every selected row

  For extension authors

  • Added Screen interface; screens and mainScreen on the global.
  • Window.frame, Window.screen, and PanelHandle.frame are now read/write
  • showPanel({ frame }) replaces the separate x/y/width/height/screen options.
  • StyleContext.isFullWindow (renamed from isInterfaceHidden) and StyleContext.viewportContentInsets.
  • StyleContext.consecutivePath: number[] replaces orderedIndex; covers both ordered and heading runs.
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (278) 04 May 2026
  • Restored a broader set of built-in themes
  • Added relative color syntax for use in theme files

  Refined “Go To…” and “Move To…”:

  • Can now target any row, not just sidebar items
  • Prefix filter with - to search across all rows
  • In “Go To…”, prefix with > to execute commands
  • Added menu items that insert these prefixes automatically

  Fixed

  • Improved performance of moveText in large outlines
  • Fixed word drag case where original word was lost track of
  • Link hover only shows URLs when the pointer is over text
  • Sidebar leaf chevron color/alpha now matches its row label
  • After a failed search, the caret returns to the original search anchor

  Themes & Extensions

  • Breaking changes to ChoiceBox API
  • Breaking changes and additions to Color API
  • Building your extension should type-check it to indicate needed changes
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (277) 02 May 2026
  • Go To… now includes all sidebar locations
  • Move To… now includes all sidebar locations (except queries)
  • Updated menus for improved organization and consistency
  • Updated default and Solarized theme colors
  • Fixed crash on quit

  Extensions

  • Added activate to bike, Document, Window, Editor, and Panel.
  • Added prepareRow requirement to Sidebar LocationItem
  • Added light-dark(<light>, <dark>) theme color expressions
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (276) 30 Apr 2026
  • Updated to Swift 6
  • Support opening #ROWID links
  • Added “Disable animations in Low Power Mode” setting
  • Added Go > Sidebar (⌘1), Editor (⌘2), Inspector (⌘3)

  Fixed

  • Hang when closing an outline with an active filter
  • Word-drag selection losing track of the start word
  • Brief “flash” of dragged rows at their origin on drop
  • Indented blank lines preserved when round-tripping Bike Markdown
  • Fixed an issue where clicks on fold/focus decorations were sometimes ignored

  Extensions

  • Window.subtitle read/write access
  • Outline.resolveLink for resolving URLs and #ROWID
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (275) 27 Apr 2026
  • Added setting to disable animations in Low Power Mode
  • Fixed paste crash when inserting empty text
  • Fixed link button being unclickable due to style
  • Fixed hang when closing document with active filter
  • Improved breadcrumb trimming to respect word boundaries

  Extensions

  • Added JSRowRun bridge so the run:: axis works from JS extensions
  • Fixed parent:: axis returning grandparent when evaluated from a run
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (274) 17 Apr 2026
  • Added button to show/hide inspector
  • Added Restore All Settings in General preferences
  • Compress redundant text in breadcrumb (Navigate to calendar day)
  • Fixed word-granularity drag selection losing the original double-clicked word
  • Fixed font size slider changing line height
  • Fixed font family popup resetting size to 13pt
  • Fixed window opening with zero height after Restore All Settings

  Extensions

  • Replaced AppleScript resolve with get row command
  • Fixed showAlert fields being silently dropped
  • Fixed bike.defaults.observe never firing in app context
  • Fixed shared Settings/Inspector bike.defaults
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (273) 15 Apr 2026
  • Changed to optional persistent ids
  • Fixed link IDs not being remapped on import
  • Fixed threading issue when deallocating editor
  • Fixed memory leaks in JavaScript extension runtime
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (272) 13 Apr 2026
  • Added external file change detection
  • Fixed spelling marks breaking typing slide animation
  • Fixed block delete dropping selection when all siblings deleted
  • Fixed formatting palette staying open when ⌘Return steals focus
  • Fixed Escape toggle restoring entire row instead of previous text selection
  • Fixed imported markdown documents not restoring after relaunch
  • Fixed crash in regex replace with non-participating capture group
  • Fixed nested inline formatting sort order producing wrong markdown
  • Fixed opening .txt files being loaded as Markdown

  Extensions

  • Show caret line in unfocused editors when setting enabled
  • Fixed crash accessing bike.windows in some cases
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (271) 12 Apr 2026
  • Fixed ordered list number alignment with row text
  • Fixed hide interface re-entrancy issue on macOS 26.4
  • Fixed imported markdown handling in pasteboard decoding
  • Fixed crash on quit when drag pasteboard had promises
  • Fixed links in DOM contexts (inspector, settings, sheets) not opening in browser
  • Fixed rowIndexFrom character index conversion with multi-byte characters

  Extensions

  • Added Keychain API for secure password/token storage
  • Added Extension settings API (Bike > Settings > Extensions)
  • Namespaced globals (such as extensionURL) to bike.extensionURL, etc
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (270) 08 Apr 2026
  • Added Help menu items
  • Improved Commands Explorer UI
  • Fixed sidebar selection drawing
  • Fixed over-escaping in markdown export
  • Fixed blank lines lost during Bike Markdown round-trip
  • Fixed ordered list numbering reset after blank lines
  • Improved drag and drop performance in sidebar and editor

  Extensions

  • Added new system fill colors
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (269) 04 Apr 2026
  • Added titlebar indicator for logged errors
  • Added Settings > General > Show/hide menu images
  • Load themes directly from extensions (no copy to themes folder)
  • Removed .bikemd format-you’ll need to rename to .md
  • Reworked file format handling (.bike vrs .html etc)
  • Sync control show/hide to mouse cursor visibility
  • Work to unify/polish explorer windows
  • Show propper ids in path explorer
  • Fixed text commands to work in text mode
  • Fixed all known crashes (keep sending!)

  Extensions

  Added extensionURL. Use to generate URLs for files contained in extension’s folder. Common case would be to show images in DOM context or style context.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (268) 24 Mar 2026

  Added

  • Added Bike > Interface Explorer
  • Added Bike > Extensions Explorer
  • Expand All / Collapse All commands (+ By Level)
  • ==mark== markdown syntax for highlight/mark formatting
  • Text semantics commands for move, delete, cut, copy, paste
  • Include more system level commands from Cocoa keybindings

  Changed

  • Updates to inspector UI
  • Standardize status bar popup UI’s
  • Select All expands immediately to document scope
  • Moved Settings > Keybindings to Bike > Commands Explorer
  • Moved Window > Logs Explorer to Bike > Logs Explorer
  • Moved Window > Outline Path Explorer to Bike > Outline Path Explorer

  Fixed

  • Sorting order
  • Ordered list numbering
  • Editor Filter context menu Cut/Copy actions
  • Focus out decoration action maintains scroll position

  Extensions

  Changes to extension-kit structure and location.

  It’s longer a mono-repo that you fork and work in. Instead it’s a package that you depend on. Now includes tooling for unit tests and releasing extensions.

  New location: https://github.com/bike-outliner/extension-kit

  • Added panel/window API
  • Added defaults and window restorable state JSONStore APIs
  • Added AttributedString.fromMarkdown() and fromHTML() APIs
  • Added typing to DOMScript message protocols (See example-extensions)
  • Derive extension name and id from folder name. No more manifest name, id
  • Split core extensions into: https://github.com/bike-outliner/core-extensions
  • Split example extensions into: https://github.com/bike-outliner/example-extensions
  • Renamed !bike.bkext to bike.bkext
  • Removed !startup.bkext
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (266) 12 Mar 2026
  • Added inspector tabs
  • Added status bar items
  • Lots of performance and memory tweaks

  Extensions:

  • Added extension API for status bar messages
  • Changed inspector.addItem API to include tab symbol
  • console.log now always shows up in Window > Logs Explorer

  Extensions DOM Contexts:

  • Updated common.css with lots of system styles
  • Updated common.ts and components.ts adding standard components
  • For example, use SFSymbol to show system symbol in DOM Context

  For examples of new styles and components see updated Calendar and Tutorial extensions that are included in the bike-extension-kit.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (265) 09 Mar 2026
  • Added get() method to color themes
  • Derive default caret and active line colors from system selection color
  • Fixed crash when pasting hierarchical (indented) text
  • Fixed markdown escaping to avoid unnecessary escapes (Still more to do)
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (264) 06 Mar 2026
  • Fixed cut/paste sometimes cutting more than selected
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (263) 04 Mar 2026
  • Added Settings > Keybindings
  • Added Show keybindings in “Show Commands” lists
  • Added “Include in new documents” option filter queries
  • Changed open URL to activate app and prompt user

  Fixes

  • Fixed caret up/down movement getting stuck on same row
  • Fixed autocorrect duplicate apostrophe when smart quotes is off
  • Fixed sidebar disclosure button not clickable after item gains children
  • Fixed sidebar query selection not updating on back navigation
  • Fixed preserve other text styles when setting font weight
  • Fixed word marked as misspelled while still typing it
  • Fixed sidebar drag-and-drop ordering
  • Fixed Copy as Bike Markdown excludes front matter
  • Fixed some BikeMarkdown encoder/decoder bugs
  • Fixed crash when creating heading after joining rows
  • Fixed occasional crash on extension reload
  • Benchmarking and optimization
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (262) 11 Feb 2026
  • Custom sidebar selection drawing without vibrancy
  • Changed hide/show interface animation to not bounce
  • Removed find/filter navigation from back/forward history

  Fixes

  • Fixed scroller flash when toggling hide/show interface
  • Fixed link title editing broken by paste-link-to-selection feature
  • Fixed fontWeight not overriding bold fontTraits in theme resolution
  • Fixed crash when moving a row into itself via Move to Index Row
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (261) 10 Feb 2026
  • Added toggle interface button to toolbar
  • Added theme-configurable separator colors
  • Added navigation history for document boundary, find, and filter match jumps
  • Pre-fill Save panel filename from first sentence of document content
  • Path bar improvements, including hover-to-expand segment
  • Detect indentation in plain text and RTF paste/import

  Fixes

  • Fixed Logs Explorer window close detection
  • Fixed outline editor not becoming first responder on new document
  • Fixed stale hover highlights when cursor is hidden during typing
  • Fixed font descriptor resolution for theme fontFamily, fontWeight, and fontTraits
  • Fixed Select All and large selections scrolling the viewport to the selection head
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (260) 05 Feb 2026
  • Added return key icon to Create Row
  • Added appearance metadata field to themes
  • Added anchored incremental search to the Find panel
  • Added new Logs Explorer with additional logging sources
  • Added a set of AI-generated themes as examples (starting points)
  • Further refined sidebar selection behavior
  • Removed filter field from the focus chain when collapsed
  • Applied links to selected text when pasting rich linked content
  • Preserved trailing whitespace for TextExpander and similar tools

  Fixes

  • Fixed a crash in typing animations
  • Fixed a crash in Typography settings
  • Fixed a crash during sidebar selection updates
  • Fixed an issue where selection was not scrolled into view after moving rows
  • Fixed an issue where the spelling panel would skip the next misspelling
  • Fixed row controls acting on the cursor row instead of the clicked row
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (259) 03 Feb 2026

  Added

  • Add Link to Row
  • Pin Row command (⌘Y)
  • ChoiceBox API. see bike.showChoiceBox()
  • Themes & Theme API Lots of additions. Themes can now be used to style many comment elements, see “all features” example in bike-extension-kit/api/theme. I think I’m done making big changes to themes. Now’s a good time to explore and report any problems you run into.

  Fixed

  • Sidebar selection logic is more polished
  • NSOutlineView crash when deleting multiple sidebar items at once
  • Empty queryParameters no longer adds trailing ? to URLs (broke Hookmark Mail links)
  • Autocorrect bugs: attribute extraction with substring offsets, race conditions with rapid keystrokes (I think!)

  Changed

  • Sidebar API: addAction changed to addLocation
  • ChoiceBox UI is now a more standard flat list without preferences
  • Show Commands now includes a more complete list of outliner commands
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (257) 30 Jan 2026
  • Added Sidebar (actions, index, pinned, queries)
  • Added View > Hide Interface (⌘.)
  • Added Outline > Move to Index Row
  • Added Go > Focus Index Row
  • UI Reversal, dropped glass, added more theming
  • Removed + shortcut for unordered list replacement (use -)
  • Standardized on term level across AppleScript, API, and internal code
  • Fixed crash when opening links in Hebrew text (out-of-bounds index)
  • Expanded theme support (see bike-theme.json in bike-extension-kit)

  API

  • Added Outline.observeChanges to see fine grained outline changes
  • Added accessors to row including Row.ancestors, etc
  • Added AttributedString.count to get character count
  • Renamed editor style editor.focusMode to writingFocusMode
  • Limited Sidebar API to new addAction call
  • Updated bike-extension-kit extensions to use new APIs.
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (254) 22 Dec 2025

  Holiday cooking is upon me—today: 15 lb of masa into tamales.

  Unfortunately, this preview release is not fully baked, but it has already been
  in prep far too long, so I am releasing it anyway. One major missing feature is
  outline filtering. Lots of other rough edges too. If you are using preview
  builds for real work, you may want to downgrade to build
  253 after giving this version a
  quick try.

  The biggest change in this release is the adoption of Apple’s new Liquid Glass
  UI in Bike. I have arrived at a design that I like, but feedback is always
  welcome. Hopefully it can be made even better. See the forums for discussion
  about why the UI is the way it is.

  Added

  • Empty row in new documents
  • Move up/down (maintain level) commands
  • Text wrapping keybindings (quotes, brackets, parentheses)
  • Editor style functions: selection-ancestor(), selection-descendant()
  • New Row API properties (level, prevBranch, nextBranch, isAncestor, isDescendant)
  • Improved transaction options (labels, spring timing)

  Fixed

  • Markdown code span escaping
  • Mouse cursor icon update issues
  • attributedString.replace API bug
  • Keybinding prefix matching (full prefix required)
  • Crashes evaluating some outline paths
  • Pasting short (<4 char) plain text
  • Outline path queries with multibyte quoted chars (e.g. "ü")
  • Bikemd formatting: no escape after numbers like 1 hello
  • Delete-forward on empty line now reattaches children correctly
  • Outline keybindings only activate when the Outline Editor has focus
  • Editor redraw when moving between displays with different resolutions
  • Multiple API crashes caused by invalid values (null, undefined)

  Changed

  • Removed selection-covered() editor style function
  • .bike files now require markup; empty files created via touch will not open
  • Updated API definitions to reflect new Row properties and transaction options
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (253) 27 Oct 2025
  • Added outline metadata APIs for extensions.
  • Added Edit > Paste > Paste and Render Markdown.
  • Fixed Edit > Paste > Paste and Match Style.
  • Fixed selectText API in JSOutlineEditor.
  • Fixed memory leak; memory should go down again when closing windows.
  • Fixed ignoring front-matter in plaintext files unless bikemd: true is set.
  • Fixed default outline path search to be case-insensitive.
  • Fixed error in RTFEncoder that could crash when pasting (PDF, etc.).

  I’ve been working to make it easier for AIs to build Bike extensions. Part of that work is to show the AI how to use Bike’s AppleScript evaluate command to test and debug code snippets interactively. These changes are to support that effort.

  • Added explainQuery to JSOutline.
  • Improved detail in error reporting from OSA Script evaluate commands.
  • Updated WebViewDOMScriptManager to accept inline scripts in addition to file paths.
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (252) 23 Oct 2025
  • Fixed Improved attribute handling when read/write .bike files
  • Fixed {"bikemd": true} frontmatter in Plain Text file opens content as .bikemd
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (251) 22 Oct 2025
  • Added JSON metadata to all supported formats
  • Added Escape Markdown syntax (that you type) in .bikemd
  • Added encoding of unordered rows with + list marker in .bikemd
  • Updated AppleScript command to evaluate scripts
  • Updated to no longer prefix attributes with data- at runtime
  • Updated AppleScript select row behavior to match Bike 1.x
  • Fixed focus mode paragraph
  • Fixed Learn and Ignore Word
  • Fixed paste into empty document
  • Fixed invalid characters no longer breaking file load
  • Fixed problems in save dialog when changing file formats
  • Fixed cases where autocorrect was doing the wrong thing
  • Fixed API bug that could include extra rows when removing or moving rows
  • Removed Outline metadata APIs — a more flexible option will be added soon
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (247) 17 Oct 2025
  • .bikemd is now strictly list-based
  • .bikemd now represents all outline data, using Pandoc attributes when needed
  • Updated runtime tag names to better align with HTML standards — for example: link → a, emphasis → em, highlight → mark, strikethrough → s, etc.

  Bike Markdown is still a work in progress, but I think a lot closer to a stable format now. More details in the forums and feedback encuraged! Known bugs at moment: Problems with code spans and horizontal rules. Also no escaping is being performed yet, so if you type in Markdown syntax it will be interpreted as such on next file load.

  The changing of runtime tag names may break some things. For example those names are used in themes, so you’ll need to update any custom themes you have. Also if you have Bike Extension code the processes attributed strings, the attribute names will have changed.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (246) 09 Oct 2025
  • Added Bike Markdown format (.bikemd)
  • Added Edit > Copy > Copy as Bike Markdown
  • Added to/from Markdown API
  • Improved pasting links
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (245) 03 Oct 2025

  New

  • Support for opening row links
  • Multiple views of the same outline:
    • Window ▸ Duplicate Tab
    • Window ▸ Duplicate Tab to New Window

  Improved

  • Drag-and-drop animations
  • Typewriting scrolling animations

  Changed

  • Use space key in block mode to toggle done
  • Dropping a branch on itself now requires holding a modifier key

  Fixed

  • Document file extension settings
  • Row handle clicks sometimes not registering
  • Crash when opening a context menu in block-mode rows

  API

  • Extended Keybinding active modifiers API
  • Changed URL property names and mutability
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (244) 25 Sep 2025
  • Added drag and drop

  Also added API to support drag and drop configuration through editor styles. Including: context.isDragSource, selection-covered(), drop-indicator(), and new decoration capabilities.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (243) 19 Sep 2025
  • Added Themes panel in Settings
  • Moved Editor Style from View → Settings
  • Moved Text Wrap (now “Line Width”) from View → Settings
  • Fixed issue: commands no longer affect collapsed or hidden rows
  • API updates (for extension authors only):
    • selection.rows now returns only visible rows
    • Renamed some items—update bike-theme-kit and rebuild. Type errors will appear if your extension uses renamed items.

  Themes are currently quite limited. Goal here is to test the concept and basic implementation. I’ll add new capabilities in the future.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (242) 16 Sep 2025
  • Fixed OPML file save/load
  • Fixed restore split sizes on macOS 26 (Tahoe)
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (241) 14 Sep 2025
  • Added spelling highlights when typing
  • Added find highlights when Command-F finding
  • Added search highlights when Command-Shift-F searching
  • Active Bike when calling New Document from Dock menu
  • Fixed document.frontmostWindow API to not always return null
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (240) 07 Sep 2025
  • Added Format > Add Link
  • Added Format > Show Formatting…
  • Added Context menu to outline editor
  • Added text replacements (spelling, zzz, etc) on Return
  • Highlight active replacement (last, before caret moves)
  • Fixed some text rendering issues with RTL text (not all)
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (239) 03 Sep 2025
  • Added Crash reporter
  • Printing shows current focus/folds
  • Fixed problem saving as Plain Text
  • Fixed Vietnamese (and other) text input problems
  • Fixed launch problems on earlier macOS 15.x releases
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (238) 25 Aug 2025
  • Added License panel
  • Added Preview release indicator
  • Added Text caret to empty outline
  • Added View > Editor Zoom
  • Added View > Editor Style (Moved from Window menu)
  • Added Restorable state for folded rows
  • Added Restorable state for View > Text Wrap, Focus, etc
  • Reorganized settings panels
  • Changed some of the theme and settings API
  • Fixed repeat clicks (now work) on decoration buttons
  • Fixed some broken caches, performance is a bit better
  • Fixed broken scroll correction, scroll to end of document, etc

  Implemented many settings “per editor”. If you change that setting (such as Text Wrap) then it will effect the frontmost editor and also set a new default that new editors will use. Any already open editors will keep their current value.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (237) 13 Aug 2025
  • Fixed to embed latest “Bike (default)” style.
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (236) 13 Aug 2025
  • Added Keybindings API bike.keybindings.activeModifiers
  • Added Option-Click on row handle to expand/collapse completely
  • Added Hide declared API command from palette by starting name with ..
  • Implemented View > Text Wrap menu
  • Implemented View > Focus Mode menu
  • Implemented View > Typewriter Mode menu
  • Fixed Control-o to split line
  • Fixed Hide Statusbar menu item label
  • Fixed Delete focused row doesn’t crash
  • Fixed Crash when undoing deleted rows in some cases
  • Fixed Keybindings API initial state in new documents
  • Fixed Crash when opening completely empty .bike/.opml files
  • Fixed Unit tests running again. Doesn’t effect release, but it’s been a while :)

  I had said I would get settings connected this release. Didn’t quite make it, but I did get lots of other features implemented and bugs fixed.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (235) 31 Jul 2025
  • Improved block quote styling
  • Improved block selection styling
  • Changed mergeDistance style property to mergable
  • Fixed crash when Option-Return in line with spaces
  • Fixed editor.transaction API to return result of passed closure
  • Fixed block selection to show selection for all rows, not just ends

  Lots of work on styling internals that enables new rounded styles for block selection and blockquote rows. Also refined decoration animations to stay in better sync with text content.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (234) 21 Jul 2025
  • Added blur behind moving rows
  • Added mergeDistance to decoration style
  • Renamed OutlineStyle to EditorStyle in API

  When mergeDistance is set similar decorations (equal style & nearby frames) are merged together into an irregular shape. This makes it possible to draw nice exterior borders and rounded corners around decorations that span multiple runs. In a future release I hope to make this work for text and row decorations too.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (233) 15 Jul 2025
  • Added click focus to focus in/out
  • Added click handle to expand/collapse
  • Added click link button to open link
  • Added API to add commands to decorations
  • Added CommandContext to CommandAction in API
  • Added commandName to Decoration style, removed action
  • Fixed effectiveRange parameter in AttributedString API
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (232) 11 Jul 2025
  • Animations polish
  • Don’t fade removed rows
  • Snap caret when text wrap changes
  • Bounce row and caret on split/join (souring on it)
  • Improve focus in/out animations
  • Improve scale animations (used during filtering)
  • Fixed decoration sizes when zoomed out
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (231) 03 Jul 2025

  231:

  • Fixed MORE crashes when reading some unicode

  230:

  • Added Printing
  • Added Finder Preview
  • Added Finder Thumbnails
  • Fixed clipboard read/write text APIs
  • Fixed crash when reading some unicode
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (229) 17 Jun 2025
  • Added back Find Count
  • Added back Text Checking
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (228) 11 Jun 2025
  • Added back Sort Rows
  • Added back Group Rows
  • Added back Delete Rows
  • Added back Duplicate Rows
  • Added back Find & Replace
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (227) 10 Jun 2025
  • Added back Shortcuts
  • Added back AppleScript
  • Added back Copy/Paste of rich text
  • Added back Go > Back / Forward navigation

  Lots of porting Bike 1 code to Bike 2 this release.

  I’ve ported Shortcuts and AppleScript support from Bike 1.x. Generally same
  features, but with a few wrinkles. For example Bike 2 doesn’t have hoisted rows,
  so that API is removed. Also Bike 2 adds run script commands to run Javascript
  code in extension app context.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (226) 03 Jun 2025
  • Fixed crash when opening Window > Outline Path Explorer

  Finished user guide documentation for the updated extension system. Also finished related screencasts:

  • Setup & Build
  • Creating Extensions
  • App Context Extensions
  • DOM Context Extensions
  • Style Context Extensions
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (225) 30 May 2025

  One step back, two steps forward.

  Lots of changes to the extension system. Lots of internal changes to style and
  layout systems. Likely introduced some new bugs in the process, but cleaned up a
  lot and will get to fixing visual bugs next.

  High level extension system changes:

  1. In previous releases Bike would automatically build extensions for you.
     That’s been removed. Now use the Bike Extension
     Kit to build extensions.

  2. In previous releases styles and extensiosn were separate. Now styles are a
     part of the extension system. Calling them outline styles now instead of themes.

  3. New documentation and tutorials to explain it all.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (224) 05 May 2025
  • Added Outline.getRowById
  • Fixed Outline Path Explorer window to update
  • Removed source param from Keybindings an Commands APIs
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (223) 04 May 2025
  • Fixed some memory leaks
  • Added AttributedString.toHTML()
  • Fixed spelling of AttributedString.subsring method
  • Added host_permissions manifest key. To use the fetch API your extension needs both the fetch permission and the fetched URL needs to match one of the patterns in host_permissions.
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (222) 01 May 2025
  • Added Window > Log Explorer for extension developers
  • Changed postMessage and onMessage API to use Json instead of strings
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (221) 29 Apr 2025
  • Improved extension error logging
  • Relaxed base tsconfig.json settings
  • Added ordering support to sidebar items
  • Updated Creating Extensions documentation
  • Added github repository to share Bike extensions
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (220) 28 Apr 2025
  • Added bike.commands.toString for debugging
  • Added bike.keybindings.toString for debugging
  • Added value to all cases of OultinePathValue
  • Fixed keybindings to again recognize modifiers
  • Fixed keybindings documention, use - as separator
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (219) 18 Apr 2025
  • Added fetch (fetch permission) API
  • Added outlineEditor.observeSelection API
  • Added window.observeFrontmostOutlineEditor API
  • Added more editor API for folding and focus testing
  • Changed some fields in outlineEditor.selection
  • Removed network access in DOMScripts (fetch should always fail)

  I have added an example inspector item to the @Bike extension that puts these
  changes together. To try it out fully select a word in your outline. You should
  see a list of synonyms show in the inspector. Dig into the @Bike extension to
  see how it works… but the basic idea is fetch happens in the app context. It
  requires the fetch permission. It sends results to the DOMScript context.

  Questions welcome!

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (218) 16 Apr 2025
  • Added bike.showAlert API
  • Added window.presentSheet (domScript permission) API
  • Added window.inspector.addItem (domScript permission) API
  • Added URL open method and other URL (openURL permission) API
  • Added type parameters to clipboard API
  • Improved zoom animations when filtering
  • Show selected rows at full scale when filtering
  • Moved bike provided extension code from @Startup to @Bike
  • Fixed console.log output to show in Safari inspector
  • Fixed sidebar clicks to work when multiple windows open

  New release! Big effort this time around is giving extensions the ability to
  display their own UI in WebViews. Along the way I also managed to reorganize a
  bunch of things. Please see discussion in the forums.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (216) 08 Apr 2025
  • Added setMetadata and getMetadata to outline API
  • Fixed memory leaks and reloading extensions after code change
  • Fixed problems with extension defined keybindings that used modifier keys
  • Fixed <ul> element (root row) attributes to round trip through Bike format
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (215) 04 Apr 2025
  • Added sidebar live queries
  • Fixed layout bugs (more remain)
  • Fixed some memory leaks

  Sidebar queries are configured by the extension API. If you have run a previous version of Bike 2 a @Startup extension is installed that doesn’t use that API, so you won’t see live query. If that’s the case you can delete that @Startup extension, and then restart Bike. A new @Startup extension will be created that uses the new API. To do this:

  1. Open Bike > Extensions… menu item.
  2. In the Finder window that opens, delete the @Startup extension.
  3. Restart Bike.

  Now when you create a heading in your outline it should show in the sidebar under “Headings”, you might have to expand “headings” to see it. You can modify your @Startup extension to create your own live queries.

• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (214) 29 Mar 2025
  • Added ability to provide id for new rows.
  • Added extension API tutorial
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (213) 28 Mar 2025
  • Added extension API for row text
  • Added extension API to create outline from query
  • Changed extension API import / export options
  • Fixed filtering to select first match in block mode
  • Fixed pasting when in text mode (ie Raycast emojis)
  • Fixed keybindings breaking after command-tab away from Bike
  • Fixed named keys (such as space or downarrow) in keybindings
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (212) 23 Mar 2025

  Extension API Changes:

  • Added Outline.insertRows, Outline.moveRows, Outline.removeRows
  • Added Outline.query, Outline.scheduleQuery, Outline.streamQuery
  • Added Outline.importRows, Outline.exportRows
  • Fixed console.log to show in Safari insprector and Console.app
  • Fixed Outline Path Explorer to always show frontmost outline view state
  • Fixed live reload of @Startup extension
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (211) 21 Mar 2025
  • Simplified Outline > Folding
  • Added filtering (Shift-Command-F)
  • Added extension API: Commands, keybindings, sidebar items
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (210) 18 Feb 2025

  Automatic software update is broken for this version. Fixed for next… I think! You’ll need to download and install manually.

  • Direct Download

  The focus of this release is on themes and outline paths. Themes have changed a lot since the previous preview release.

  Learn more:

  • Watch theme building tutorial
  • Read in progress Bike 2 Guide
• Bike 2.0 (Preview) (209) 15 May 2024
  • Added software update
  • Polished selection model
  • Started outline search/filtering. Work in progress
  • More app infastructure, including settings. Much of it is not connected