Jesse Grosjean
@jessegrosjean.bsky.social
I'm a Mac indie developer working on Hog Bay Software since around 2003. I live in Bangor, Maine. Bike Outliner • TaskPaper • WriteRoom
TaskPaper will crash on search in macOS 26.1. There's a fix in this preview release: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/taskpaper-...
TaskPaper 3.9.4 Preview (486-487)
I just bumped this preview, adding the ability to double click on date picker calendar date to insert date, instead of having to press Return key.
support.hogbaysoftware.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
TaskPaper will crash on search in macOS 26.1. There's a fix in this preview release: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/taskpaper-...
I feel like I can finally see then product of Bike 2 odyssey. Over last week is first time I'm envisioning end product without having design problems left to solve. Now all there is left to do is implement. How long can I stretch this out!?
October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I feel like I can finally see then product of Bike 2 odyssey. Over last week is first time I'm envisioning end product without having design problems left to solve. Now all there is left to do is implement. How long can I stretch this out!?
The latest Bike 2.0 preview release supports a new file format — not quite Markdown, but close: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike 2.0 (Preview 246)
I’ve had some new ideas on “markdown” and think I have a pretty good solution in this release. First, I’ve long delayed markdown support in Bike because there’s no good mapping between Bike and the f...
support.hogbaysoftware.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The latest Bike 2.0 preview release supports a new file format — not quite Markdown, but close: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Latest Bike Outliner 2.0 Preview has pretty nice drag and drop implementation. Try it out at: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
October 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Latest Bike Outliner 2.0 Preview has pretty nice drag and drop implementation. Try it out at: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
I'm looking for thoughts and ideas for how Bike Outliner's UI should fit into Liquid Glass: www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/bike-t...
Bike: macOS 26
www.hogbaysoftware.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'm looking for thoughts and ideas for how Bike Outliner's UI should fit into Liquid Glass: www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/bike-t...
Latest Bike 2 preview find, search, and text checking highlights. support.hogbaysoftware.com
Hog Bay Software Support
Hog Bay Software support forums for Bike Outliner, TaskPaper, and WriteRoom.
support.hogbaysoftware.com
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Latest Bike 2 preview find, search, and text checking highlights. support.hogbaysoftware.com
"Although autonomous LLMs are inherently unreliable, there’s a long software tradition of building reliable layers on top of unreliable layers" – Jon Udell
That quote just made me think about LLMs a bit differently.
Full article: thenewstack.io/how-to-upgra...
That quote just made me think about LLMs a bit differently.
Full article: thenewstack.io/how-to-upgra...
How To Upgrade Your MCP Server With Context Engineering
Context engineering anchors AI agents to ground truth. So here's how to upgrade an MCP server to help agents find legit and sourced patterns.
thenewstack.io
September 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Although autonomous LLMs are inherently unreliable, there’s a long software tradition of building reliable layers on top of unreliable layers" – Jon Udell
That quote just made me think about LLMs a bit differently.
Full article: thenewstack.io/how-to-upgra...
That quote just made me think about LLMs a bit differently.
Full article: thenewstack.io/how-to-upgra...
Every week Bike 2 is getting a little closer to release. Latest preview adds back formatting palette and context menu among other things.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike 2.0 (Preview 240)
Added Format > Add Link Added Format > Show Formatting… Added Context menu to outline editor Added text replacements (spelling, zzz, etc) on Return Highlight active replacement (last, before caret mov...
support.hogbaysoftware.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Every week Bike 2 is getting a little closer to release. Latest preview adds back formatting palette and context menu among other things.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Is there any argument for including icons in Tahoe menus?
Of all the Tahoe design changes, this is the one that I'm sure I'll never get used to. It's just wrong–clutter, clutter, clutter, for no reason.
Of all the Tahoe design changes, this is the one that I'm sure I'll never get used to. It's just wrong–clutter, clutter, clutter, for no reason.
September 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Is there any argument for including icons in Tahoe menus?
Of all the Tahoe design changes, this is the one that I'm sure I'll never get used to. It's just wrong–clutter, clutter, clutter, for no reason.
Of all the Tahoe design changes, this is the one that I'm sure I'll never get used to. It's just wrong–clutter, clutter, clutter, for no reason.
New Bike 2 preview release. Added back view > text wrap, view > focus mode, view > typewriter mode. Also fixed bunch of bugs, and added some API for reading current modifiers.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike 2.0 (Preview 236)
Added Keybindings API bike.keybindings.activeModifiers Added Option-Click on row handle to expand/collapse completely Added Hide declared API command from palette by starting name with .. Implemented ...
support.hogbaysoftware.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
New Bike 2 preview release. Added back view > text wrap, view > focus mode, view > typewriter mode. Also fixed bunch of bugs, and added some API for reading current modifiers.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Latest Bike Outliner (2.0 Preview) supports round corners for groups of rows. The standard style uses for improved block selection and block quotes. Can also be used for new styles–here's a quick demo:
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
July 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Latest Bike Outliner (2.0 Preview) supports round corners for groups of rows. The standard style uses for improved block selection and block quotes. Can also be used for new styles–here's a quick demo:
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike Outliner 2.0 development continues. It's not done, but starting to feel more complete. Planning a fall release.
Here's an intro video showing some of the new features:
vimeo.com/1104570962
Download the latest preview in my forums:
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Here's an intro video showing some of the new features:
vimeo.com/1104570962
Download the latest preview in my forums:
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike 2 Preview
This is "Bike 2 Preview" by Jesse Grosjean on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Bike Outliner 2.0 development continues. It's not done, but starting to feel more complete. Planning a fall release.
Here's an intro video showing some of the new features:
vimeo.com/1104570962
Download the latest preview in my forums:
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Here's an intro video showing some of the new features:
vimeo.com/1104570962
Download the latest preview in my forums:
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Here's how to install and setup the Bike Outliner 2 extension kit. I'll also post some extension development screencasts early this week. vimeo.com/1089520938
Bike Extension Kit: Intro
This is "Bike Extension Kit: Intro" by Jesse Grosjean on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
June 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Here's how to install and setup the Bike Outliner 2 extension kit. I'll also post some extension development screencasts early this week. vimeo.com/1089520938
New Bike 2 preview release. Work on extension system continues. I think (yeah I've thought this before, but really this time) now I'll head back to adding and polishing core features for eventual release. support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike 2.0 (Preview 225)
One step back, two steps forward. Lots of changes to the extension system. Lots of internal changes to style and layout systems. Likely introduced some new bugs in the process, but cleaned up a lot a...
support.hogbaysoftware.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
New Bike 2 preview release. Work on extension system continues. I think (yeah I've thought this before, but really this time) now I'll head back to adding and polishing core features for eventual release. support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
More extension system experiments with the latest Bike 2 Preview. This one uses d3.js to present different outline layouts.
April 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
More extension system experiments with the latest Bike 2 Preview. This one uses d3.js to present different outline layouts.
Latest Bike 2 Preview adds new extension possibilities.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
vimeo.com/1076790898
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
vimeo.com/1076790898
Bike Extensions (Synonyms)
This is "Bike Extensions (Synonyms)" by Jesse Grosjean on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Latest Bike 2 Preview adds new extension possibilities.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
vimeo.com/1076790898
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
vimeo.com/1076790898
New Bike 2 preview release... work in progress, not polished, but extensions can now add custom HTML/DOM UI in sheets and inspector panel.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike 2.0 (Preview 218)
Added bike.showAlert API Added window.presentSheet (domScript permission) API Added window.inspector.addItem (domScript permission) API Added URL open method and other URL (openURL permission) API Add...
support.hogbaysoftware.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
New Bike 2 preview release... work in progress, not polished, but extensions can now add custom HTML/DOM UI in sheets and inspector panel.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Reposted by Jesse Grosjean
Lately on the blog: TaskPaper giveaway!
https://brettterpstra.com/2025/04/07/taskpaper-giveaway/?utm_campaign=blog_post&utm_source=mastodon
https://brettterpstra.com/2025/04/07/taskpaper-giveaway/?utm_campaign=blog_post&utm_source=mastodon
TaskPaper giveaway! - BrettTerpstra.com
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 licenses ($24.99 value each) for TaskPaper. TaskPaper is a task management solution based entirely on plain text. It offers a familiar interface to…
brettterpstra.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Lately on the blog: TaskPaper giveaway!
https://brettterpstra.com/2025/04/07/taskpaper-giveaway/?utm_campaign=blog_post&utm_source=mastodon
https://brettterpstra.com/2025/04/07/taskpaper-giveaway/?utm_campaign=blog_post&utm_source=mastodon
Reposted by Jesse Grosjean
@jessegrosjean.bsky.social's Bike is still the gold standard. Such a simple solution. I wish we had this on the OS level.
(h/t @jaakster.bsky.social)
(h/t @jaakster.bsky.social)
March 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
@jessegrosjean.bsky.social's Bike is still the gold standard. Such a simple solution. I wish we had this on the OS level.
(h/t @jaakster.bsky.social)
(h/t @jaakster.bsky.social)
I've been saying... new Bike preview release on Friday for a few Fridays now. Finally I've got one for your:
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike preview now has outline filtering and a new extension API with commands, keybindings, sidebar, and more.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike preview now has outline filtering and a new extension API with commands, keybindings, sidebar, and more.
Bike 2.0 (Preview 211)
New Bike 2.0 Preview today! Downloads Still not ready for daily use! I do not expect that it will corrupt files or delete data, but there’s many missing features and visual glitches. The focus of ...
support.hogbaysoftware.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I've been saying... new Bike preview release on Friday for a few Fridays now. Finally I've got one for your:
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike preview now has outline filtering and a new extension API with commands, keybindings, sidebar, and more.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike preview now has outline filtering and a new extension API with commands, keybindings, sidebar, and more.
Bike 2 extensions in progress. Hope to release early demo that you can try by Friday.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-ext...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-ext...
March 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Bike 2 extensions in progress. Hope to release early demo that you can try by Friday.
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-ext...
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-ext...
Here's a fun web app to try in the outliner space: leaflet.pub. If I made web apps I think this is the sort that I would try to make.
Untitled Leaflet
leaflet.pub
March 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Here's a fun web app to try in the outliner space: leaflet.pub. If I made web apps I think this is the sort that I would try to make.
Bike 2 search design ideas looking for feedback: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/search-ide...
Search ideas for Bike 2
I’ve been working on search since the last Bike 2 preview release, but have been having a hard time settling on how it should work. At one end of the spectrum you have TaskPaper style search… where y...
support.hogbaysoftware.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bike 2 search design ideas looking for feedback: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/search-ide...
New Bike 2 preview release: New Bike 2 preview release: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
Bike 2.0 (Preview 210)
New Bike 2.0 Preview today! Downloads Still not ready for daily use, but improved! I do not expect that it will corrupt files or delete data, but there’s missing features and visual glitches. Get...
support.hogbaysoftware.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
New Bike 2 preview release: New Bike 2 preview release: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...