# Getting Started {% embed url="" %} Bike: Structured Focused Writing {% endembed %} Bike is an outliner. Indent to create a structured outline. Fold this outline to hide details. Focus your outline to see specifics. Use your outline to track ideas, projects, writing, to-do lists. #### To create a row * Press the `Return` key to create a row #### To change a row's indentation level * Press the `Tab` key to indent a row * Press `Shift-Tab` key to unindent a row #### To show and hide detail in your outline * Click a row's triangle handle to collapse the row, hiding its contained rows * Click that same handle to expand the row, showing its contained rows #### To focus into a specific part of your outline, hiding everything else * Click the focus button to the right of a row's text. * Click that same focus button to unfocus an already focused row. * Use Go > Focus Heading… `Command-P` to focus any heading in your outline. **To format text in your outline** * Show the formatting popover with `Command-E` * Select formatting options from the popover with your mouse or with the single letter keyboard shortcuts displayed on the panel. That's it, just a few commands. Internalize these commands. *Learn the keyboard shortcuts*. Once you've done that Bike will be a great place for you to think. Next I suggest you read: * [Text Editing](/using-bike/text-editing.md) * [Text Formatting](/using-bike/text-formatting.md) * [Row Types](/using-bike/row-types.md) * [Outline Editing](/using-bike/outline-editing.md) * [Keyboard Shortcuts](/keyboard-shortcuts.md) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/getting-started.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.