Bike: Automate with Shortcuts

Bike Outliner adds Shortcut actions! With Apple’s new Shortcuts^[1] app you drag and drop actions to create automated workflows. It’s similar in capability to AppleScript, but much easier to get started.

Bike Shortcut Actions

Bike provides a complete suite of shortcut actions. You can create, edit, move, and delete rows. You can also search for rows and expand or collapse the outline.

Here’s what a shortcut looks like. This shortcut saves Safari’s current tab to a “Links” section in your outline. I’ll walk you through part of this shortcut’s creation in the following tutorial.

• Download Shortcut

Bike Shortcuts Tutorial

In this short tutorial I’ll show you how to create a link and throw in a few tips along the way. I’m still learning this new automation technology. If you have any suggestions, please let me know in the comments.

Bike Shortcuts Examples

• Cleanup – Collapse all rows except for the selected row where you are currently working.
• Save Tabs – Saves all tabs in the current Safari window into the current Bike outline.
• Show Matches – Asks for a search term, and then expands outline to show all rows that contain that search term.
• Today – Creates a year, month, day outline hierarchy (if needed) for todays date and moves your text caret there so you can start typing.