rediscovering Jesse's Bike
A pox on me for forgetting this awesome outliner! ::chuckle::
How I rediscovered it was by writing this January 28 poem with it.
I had been looking for one of those minimalist writing apps that I loved from years ago, but had either completely neglected or hadn't upgraded from older versions. I'd even forgotten their names and had to do a search for these... Ulysses, Calmly Writer, Ia Writer, WriteRoom — online and on my MacBook.
Which is how I saw that I still had Bike in my Applications folder. Though not the most recent version, it was still extant, usable. And, without preamble, set to writing "in my 3-mat hut".
Given the thing I was writing, I really had no use for the outliner aspect of the app; frankly, I just needed a minimalist Dark Mode palette to compose lines with, an option Bike certainly had. And so, in the process of writing, rediscovered the app's native elements, leading to that sensation of astonishment at having forgotten how cool it was.
And so, the next day, with Bike still open, I made a couple of new docs, this time with outlining fully intentional, thus rediscovering the pleasure of thinking through outlining, a cognitive modality that's both structured and organic, allowing for both reasoning and creativity at the same time. Hence: delightful.
[ Screenshot of a Bike-doc triptych desktop (I love that these docs have their distinctive .bike suffix)... ]
