# Bike: A new outlining app by Hog Bay Software

**URL:** <https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/bike-a-new-outlining-app-by-hog-bay-software/5154>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [May 30, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/bike-a-new-outlining-app-by-hog-bay-software/5154 "2022-05-30T19:04:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/bike-a-new-outlining-app-by-hog-bay-software/5154/1 "2022-05-30T19:04:27Z")

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[Bike is a new outlining app by Hog Bay Software](https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/), the developer of [TaskPaper](https://www.taskpaper.com) which I use every day.

**Bike works “out of the box” with Hook’s default integration script** , which uses `hook:///file/` URLs. That gives you links to the entire document.

Bike has deep links to rows. We intend to give Bike users an option to use `bike://` URLs. You’ll just need to do this from the command line:

`defaults write com.cogsciapps.hook integration.bike.URL.scheme bike-default`

and you will be able to revert to `hook://file/` URLs by doing:

`defaults write com.cogsciapps.hook integration.bike.URL.scheme hook-file`.

(or some such incantation).

Or Hook Pro users can edit the integration script (which will have both options). We’ve done this kind of thing with some file-based apps like Obsidian and nvUltra.

If you want links to rows before we get that done, then just copy links directly from Bike and hook them to anything.

`hook://file/` URLs have an advantage that you can move or rename the file and the links will still work even if the file is not currently open. Same principle as with OmniOutliner. We may very well provide the ability to automatically add the native app URL (bike://, OmniOutliner, Scrivener, etc.) info to the `hook://file/` URL so you can get the best of worlds.

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**Author:** ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/bike-a-new-outlining-app-by-hog-bay-software/5154/2 "2022-05-30T19:11:52Z")

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Here’s a Bike deep-linking script shared on Hog Bay Software Support forum: [Hook links? - Bike](https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/hook-links/4850/4).

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**Author:** ![rrobinson](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@rrobinson](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/rrobinson)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/bike-a-new-outlining-app-by-hog-bay-software/5154/3 "2022-06-24T19:33:34Z")

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I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, but I’m not getting anything when I prompt on a document. Sorry. I feel like I’m missing something due to a lack of technical knowledge.

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**Author:** ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/bike-a-new-outlining-app-by-hog-bay-software/5154/4 "2022-06-24T23:14:51Z")

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Welcome to the Hook Productivity Forum , @rrobinson . are you seeing `No linkable item found in Bike`? if so, please refer to [No Linkable Item in … – Hook](https://hookproductivity.com/help/hook-window/no-resource-detected/).

I tested with latest Bike and works.

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**Author:** ![rrobinson](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@rrobinson](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/rrobinson)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/bike-a-new-outlining-app-by-hog-bay-software/5154/5 "2022-06-25T00:28:32Z")

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I figured out the problem that I created. 🙂

Thanks for your help!