Text Editing

• Supports: Tasks (bulleted), Projects (headers), Notes (plain)
• Toggle between task, note, and project
• Smart bullet insertion on Return
• Context-aware indentation
• Smart capitalisation of the first word after a bullet; autocorrect off by default, toggle from the Command Palette
• Mid-line Return preserves indent and continuation bullet
• Newline above, below, or without indent for breaking out of nested lists
• Upper case / lower case selection transforms
• Dedicated note insertion preserves indentation without adding a bullet
• Insert portable Markdown link to other files
• Multi-line editing, indent/outdent, move up/down
• Branch indent/outdent and move that keep descendants attached
• Long-press the tool Indent/Outdent buttons to operate on the whole branch
• TaskPaper-style selection: word, sentence, paragraph, branch
• Long-press tool Move Up/Down to Move to Previous/Next Section or Move Branch Up/Down
• Move current branch—or every branch in selection—into another project
• Group Lines wraps the current branch in a new project header
• Duplicate the current line or selection
• Delete the current line or selection, together with their child items
• Reformat indentation for flat or mixed documents
• Sort top-level projects by name, due date, task count, or priority
• Full undo/redo with named action titles

Task Management

• Mark done/incomplete with @done tag
• Optional completion date: @done(YYYY-MM-DD)
• Strikethrough for completed tasks
• Toggle with spacebar or tap gesture
• Hierarchical nesting under projects

Project Management

• Nested sub-projects with hierarchical sidebar
• Collapsible projects—fold/unfold to focus on what matters
• Fold state persists across sessions
• Project filtering with base indentation stripped for sub-projects
• Duplicate project names distinguished by position
• Non-indented documents handled correctly
• Archive completed items to dedicated section, newest first
• Archived items maintain parent-child relationships
• Archive Done in Branch—scoped archive that only sweeps the caret’s subtree

Tag System

• Simple tags: @tagname
• Valued tags: @tagname(value1, value2)
• Date tags: @due(YYYY-MM-DD), @start(YYYY-MM-DD)
• Time tags: @alarm(HH:MM), @alarm(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM)
• Predefined: @today, @done, @flagged, @fix, @todo, @high, @low, @for(name), @call(name)
• @progress(n)—auto-calculated completion percentage from child task @done states
• @cost(n)—manual cost value on leaf tasks
• @cost(method=n)—auto-calculated aggregate (sum/count/ave/min/max) from child @cost values
• Toggle Due / Toggle Start for quick add/remove of bare tags
• Tag picker showing existing document tags
• New! Tag autocomplete: type @ for a caret-anchored list of document and built-in tags, ranked most-used first
• Prevents duplicate tags with smart whitespace cleanup

Folding

• Tap fold indicators to collapse/expand sections
• Drag fold indicators to move complete branches—horizontal position controls indent
• ⌘. to fold/unfold the current line
• ⌘9 / ⌘0 to collapse/expand the current item
• ⌥⌘9 / ⌥⌘0 to recursively collapse/expand the current item and all descendants
• Fold to Level—collapse all items to depth 1–5
• Fold one level at a time from the keyboard with ⌃⌘9 / ⌃⌘0 (or ⇧⌘9 / ⇧⌘0), including inside a focused view
• Expand All to clear all folds
• Persistent fold state saved and restored per file
• Persistent sidebar project tree—per-document expand/collapse state
• Bundled Guide sample opens fully collapsed on first open
• Large, mostly-folded documents open already collapsed at their true height, with no visible shrink into place

Node Focus

• Focus into any project, task, or note to edit its subtree in isolation
• Focus In drills deeper; Focus Out steps back to the direct parent, then to View All
• Focus Reveal shows the subtree even when ancestors are folded, preserving inner folds
• Focus context bar shows the current breadcrumb trail with Focus Out and View All actions
• Focus-aware insertion: Return at the focused root inserts as a child, not an outside sibling
• Left-edge swipe gesture to focus deeper; swipe back to step out

Search & Filtering

• Full query language: text matching, tag queries, boolean logic, path navigation, set operations
• [w] for word-boundary matching—car [w] matches “car” but not “card”
• [m] for morphological matching—run [m] matches “running”
• ~ / [~] for semantic search—~groceries matches “supermarket”
• Combinable with [s] for case-sensitive variants
• Search scoped to current focused subtree (⌘F) or full document (⇧⌘F)
• Native find commands: Find & Replace, Find Next, Find Previous, Refresh, End Search
• Pull down from top of editor to reveal search bar, even while editing
• Search Tree toggle to include descendants of matching items with parent context (remembers last-used state)
• Built-in syntax reference sheet
• Learn the full syntax in the TaskPaper Guide (archived copy)
• Saved searches stored in-document and shown in sidebar
• Built-in Today and Not Done searches
• Sidebar inspector with collapsible Projects, Searches, and Tags sections
• Sidebar keyboard controls to hide it or show it with all sections expanded
• Collapsible filter panel with nested project tree
• Right-edge swipe to open/close the filter panel
• iPad filter sidebar sits side-by-side with the editor and stays open across selections, like a contents list
• Filter by project, tag, or tag value
• Tap a tag in the editor to filter by it
• Edit directly within filtered views
• Filtered aggregate updates: @cost(sum=…) recomputes from the visible hierarchy
• Long-press to cancel active filter
• Dynamic tag index auto-built from document

Natural Date Parsing

• ISO 8601 format
• Keywords: today, tomorrow, next week, next month
• Month/day: January 15, Dec 25
• Time: 6 am, 3:15 pm, 16:15
• Duration: +45 minutes, +1 week
• Combined: tomorrow 9am, next Friday +1 hour
• Date only, date and time, or time only pickers
• Inline calendar picker

Alarms & Reminders

• Set alarms with @alarm(…) tag
• Date & time, date only, or time only
• Creates iOS Reminders automatically
• Edit or clear alarms
• Removes reminders when tags deleted
• Import an existing Reminders list as a project in one step

Colour By

• Colour lines by priority, outline level, or due date proximity
• New! Priority: custom colours for levels 1–5; @high and @low share the highest and lowest
• Outline level: custom colours for depths 1–5
• Due date: overdue (red), today (orange), tomorrow (yellow), this week (green), later (blue)
• New! One toggle tints the built-in marker tags—@today, @flagged, @fix, @todo, @start—with curated colours
• Toggle each mode on/off with colour pickers in settings
• Style settings apply immediately while the sheet is open, including swipe-to-dismiss
• Runs after default styling; skips @done lines

Text Styling

• Bold font for project headers
• Italic styling for notes
• New! Strikethrough for completed tasks, or dim them in the Done colour with Toggle Strikethrough
• Coloured highlighting for @tags, with an optional toggle for curated built-in marker colours
• @progress tags coloured based on percentage
• Link detection for all types of URLs
• Hanging indent for task bullets
• Default or monospaced font
• Dynamic Type support for larger text size

Tool Belt

• Insert project/task, toggle line type
• Optional add-note button (hidden by default)
• Toggle done, archive done items
• Long-press done for @done(…) with date
• Inline date picker, priority selection, alarm toggle
• Flagged toggle, @for person assignment, @call phone reminder
• Tag picker, indent/outdent, move up/down, with long-press for branch only
• @progress toggle—auto-calculated from children
• @cost menu—sum/count/ave/min/max aggregation
• Fold to Level menu—collapse to depth 1–5, expand all
• Colour By settings—priority, outline level, due date
• Reformat menu: reindent, sort projects
• Customisable button order and visibility via help sheet
• Fade edges indicate more buttons when scrollable
• Buttons shown filled when they are affecting editor state
• Long-press any button for alternate function or tooltip
• Many advanced power-user features hidden by default
• Help reference via ? button
• Long-press ? to generate an anonymised debug report—document text is word-substituted, with app, OS, and device info attached

Command Palette

• Choose Command (⇧⌘P): every editor command, alphabetised, with shortcuts
• Go to Anything (⌘P): jump to projects, saved searches, and tags
• Go to Project (⌥⌘P): filtered to projects only
• Go to Search (⌃⌘P): filtered to saved searches only
• Searchable, keyboard-navigable

Export

• Choose a format from the tool belt: HTML presentation or OPML outline
• Export documents as interactive HTML slide presentations
• Four themes: Light (White), Dark (Black), Keynote (Gradient), Pastels (Post-it notes)
• Keyboard controls for changing theme, toggling progress bar, page navigation
• Each top-level project becomes a landscape slide
• Updated Export back out as an OPML outline for use in other outliners—tags emit as Bike-style data-NAME attributes, with ids and row types preserved, so done state, tags, and formatting round-trip into Bike
• Each export first confirms what the format can’t represent, so nothing is lost silently
• Share via standard iOS share sheet

Document Management

• TaskPaper (.taskpaper, .todo), text (.txt), Markdown (.md), OPML (.opml), and Bike (.bike)
• New! OPML import converts outlines into TaskPaper files, warning when attributes or embedded HTML can’t be carried across
• New! Bike import—both Bike 1.x and the Bike 2.0 beta—maps headings, tasks, notes, row types, and row attributes (including done state) to TaskPaper, preserving inline formatting and links as Markdown so it round-trips back into Bike
• New! Tap a bike:// row link to jump straight to that row in the document; links into other documents hand off to Bike
• Import a Reminders list as a project—dates, alarms, priority, and flags map to tags
• Quick capture from Shortcuts, Siri, widgets, Action Button—without opening the app
• Planning shortcuts: Open in Today, Random Next Task, or Morning Brief
• Welcome and Guide sample documents bundled for first-time users, placed in iCloud when available
• Eight built-in templates: Content Creation, Daily Routine, Event Planning, Meeting Notes, Packing List, Shopping List, Software Project, Weekly Planner
• Custom templates loaded from a Templates/ folder in Documents
• Easily work with files containing many 1000s of lines
• Full Files app integration for opening, saving, organising
• iCloud sync through Files app—quiet in the background, with status icon
• iPadOS menu bar with Item, Tag, Outline, View, and Palette menus
• Auto-save on each change and on document close
• Automatic iCloud/Files conflict resolution—winning version reloads, edits are preserved
• Persistent cursor position restored when reopening a file

Shortcuts, Siri & Spotlight

• App Intents for Open Most Recent Document, Open Document (by name), and Import Reminders List
• Quick capture intents: append a task, note, Inbox task, clipboard text, or web link without opening the editor
• Planning intents: Open in Today, Random Next Task, and Morning Brief (today’s, overdue, Inbox, and open tasks)
• New! Find & update intents: Find Items runs a query, then Mark Item Done or Set Tag on Item; Find Projects, Append Task to Project, and Open Search drive per-project automations
• Available from Shortcuts, Siri, the Action Button, lock-screen widgets, and Spotlight
• Spotlight Suggestions: recent documents on lock screen, Spotlight, and keyboard bar
• Open specific or most recent document from a Shortcuts widget

Thoroughly iOS

• Dark Mode follows system appearance
• Dynamic Type for adjustable text size
• VoiceOver labels and rotor support
• Shortcuts, Siri, Action Button, and Spotlight via App Intents
• Files app integration for opening, saving, and organising
• iCloud sync through Files
• iOS Reminders two-way integration
• Lock-screen widgets and keyboard suggestion bar entries
• Standard iOS share sheet for exports and debug reports

Onboarding

• Welcome and Guide samples installed on first launch
• Launch scene (iOS 18+) with New Document and From Template buttons over an animated decorative background
• Animated launcher so you never get bored of how it looks
• What’s New sheet for new installs and updates

Benchmarks

Benchmarks on iPhone 16 Pro, running iOS 18:

• Real keystrokes on a 3,300-line file process in about 3.4ms in release builds—a small fraction of a 120Hz frame
• Rapid typing across large real-world files (3,000–5,600 lines) stays around 2–4.5ms per keystroke
• Structural edits on a top-heavy 3,300-line file complete in about 4.5ms unfolded and about 85ms folded
• Date comparison search on a 5,600-line fixture completes in about 12ms
• Aggregate-heavy documents recompute 50 @cost(sum=...) parents in about 25ms
• Visible-range styling is windowed, so cost stays flat regardless of document length—about 5ms for a 5,000-line file, roughly 25x faster than full-document styling
• Tag and boolean search stay single-digit milliseconds even on 5,000+ line documents; semantic ~ search is the only query reaching the tens of ms, by design
• Fold indicators and text styling are cached and windowed so large, top-heavy and deeply-nested documents scroll, fold, and type without freezes
• 120Hz ProMotion screen refresh supported

Optimised

• Built with Swift and TextKit 2
• Only 1.15 MB app download size
• Less than 50 MB base memory footprint
• Quick to launch and built to stay in memory

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