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First, I use and love TaskPaper so I'm interested in what you've got going on. But on its surface, I don't see the differentiation between the two products right now other than Bike having slicker rendering and TaskPaper having more utility. It seems like TaskPaper is a competent outliner that supports focus and other features just fine. Can you comment to what the goals are that separate them?

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I've written about Bike's relationship to TaskPaper here:

https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/how-does-bike-relate-to...

I think core summary is:

1. Wanted to control own text editor. Building off NSTextView was limiting 2. Wanted to use structured document format. Plain text was limiting

Interesting, thanks. It does sound like there's a lot to build on there so I'll be interested in seeing where it goes. Some of my best "productivity" memories are with the "free" copy of OmniOutliner that came on my first Macs, and I think you have the bones to bring that to the 2020s.

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