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Replacing Craft with Bike as a thinking tool

  • One of the best features of Craft is daily pages notes, which can be used as a starting point for many ideas and drafts.

  • I’m thinking of giving Bike a go as a daily logging app.

    • This how my daily note looks like opened on my desktop.

      • I have Stickies open, because Grammarly doesn’t work in Bike.

  • Still, I like Bike better because there is so much power behind this simple app.

    • I can automate things around my notes using standard Apple Script.

    • I can parse Bike files using Ruby and Nokogiri.

    • It can link to other parts of a document, even link to other rows in other Bike files.

    • One of the best things about using Bike as my daily logging tool is that I can write blogposts inline and post them instantly.

      • I can’t do that with Craft.

      • Blogging with Bike

  • Craft is excellent for writing documents, so I’m not getting rid of it, but as a thinking tool, I like Bike better.

  • I can consider Bike as a starting point for everything I do creatively.

    • Enhanced with Hookmark, I can even start a new anything and still go back to the source.

    • I can continue a line of thought in a different app, like TaskPaper, which can be better for the task at hand.

      • This is how it looks in action.

  • Previously

    • Posting digital garden seedlings from Bike

    • Weirdly, I do this “interstitial journaling” for years now, without calling it anything…

    • So this is my workflow for blogging from Craft at the moment…

    • I should try to create a Craft extension to post stuff here directly…

    • Posting status updates from Craft

Zsolt Benke 2023.01.31. at 21:36 No Replies

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