# 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](https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/using-bike/text-editing) * [Text Formatting](https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/using-bike/text-formatting) * [Row Types](https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/using-bike/row-types) * [Outline Editing](https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/using-bike/outline-editing) * [Keyboard Shortcuts](https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/keyboard-shortcuts)