Using Bike in pair with Reminders for GTD

By Zsolt Benke

I’m playing with the idea of using solely Bike with Reminders. That was the easiest and the most effective way to capture information, organize it, plan, then create next actions out of it.

I have to create new ways to automate some things, like adding DEVONthink groups to projects then linking them together, but my idea is that, Reminders should be about tasks, and Bike should about support material. So hooking things to projects would mean that the “replacement” of an OmniFocus project would be Bike.

Of course there are problems with this approach since Bike is not available for iOS, but maybe MindNode could be used in those cases. My only problem with MindNode is that is exporting Reminders as lists. I want to just dump reminders as single tasks into my inbox. Also MindNode based projects would not have IDs like I can use IDs from Bike for project associations.

On the other hand, I usually administer GTD related things on my Mac, where Bike is available. My main GTD machine is my MacBook Air. It would be nice to use my iPads for something like this, but currently it is not possible because Bike is not available on iPadOS.

I don’t care about my iPhone. I only do capture there and reviewing next actions.

After more consideration, I’ll keep using OmniFocus since I don’t want to change my system yet again.

Instead I should keep completing my projects.