Adding Bike Shortcuts integration to my publishing setup

Previously…

Blogging with Bike

I created two new shortcuts which are helping me to start to write a new post from Bike.

The first one called “Open Decoding File”, which opens (and optionally creates) the current month’s file.

I have monthly files, because of how my publishing script works.

It publishes every post from the currently opened Bike file, so I don’t want to keep the same long outline around for blogging.

It regenerates each post every time I’m adding a new one.

If there is a breaking change in the system, I can archive old files and just start a new one.

The second one just inserts today’s date into the top, with an “DRAFT” block which can be used to start writing a new post.

I added a Keyboard Maestro macro to run this one from Bike.

I can press ⇧⌥⌘T to add a new date block on the top.

These shortcuts are using the Shortcuts integration which is available in the preview version.

Bike 1.11 (120-121) Preview – Bike / Releases – Hog Bay Software Support

Here’s a demo video.

Blogging from Bike