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