Bimlas,
It is interesting in some ways you ask this question because tiddlywiki
surely lets you have your cake and eat it too?
- <$browse multiple> lets you import more than one "text" file at a time
directly into tiddlywiki, as does drag and drop
- I believe a few tweaks should allow you to make an exporter to export
only the text field to a filename = to the title, even multiples at once.
- I believe we could build an importer that allows you to drop files on
a "folder" which adds a prefix to every file there in emulating folders
within tiddlywiki
- Tiddlydesktop all so allows a lot more interaction with the local
system including viewing content or executing programs and scripts
including your command shell.
- With the new ZIP feature its possibly to pack tiddlers into a zip file
export and unzip in place, including folders created
- Even just file:///C:/ in a browser tab allows you to drag and drop the
full path and filename from its directory listing
- Then placing this inside a html object on Tiddlydesktop allows you
to browse the content
- <object data="file:///C:/Data/ScratchArea/testme.txt" width="100%"
></object>
- You can even copy and paste from these external files to include in
a new tiddler you later export to a new file.
- I am keen to find a way to scrape this content into tiddlywiki as
well.
- You can print to a generic plain text printer to generate new text
files
- Bob gives you a fileserver and some talk recently included saving back
to the files.
- Node automatically generates static tiddlers via a template and serves
them into the browser
- I am confident you could use a template to have text files
available at a static web address as well
But of course understanding your full needs we could make some custom
solutions for you.
One of my current tricks on windows is;
- to have a custom exporter that generates a JSON of all tiddlers
matching a filter, and saves according to a pre-coded filename.
- This could of course generate a ZIP with files and folders as well.
- The download includes the filename, now as a rule before I save over
an existing file or look for the correct folder I place windows explorer in
the appropriate folder (Eg TiddlyWiki Intranet folder) and start typing
that filename in the search.
- The search facility finds the file in its location, if it matches the
one in the file save dialogue I click it and save over it, there by
saving
in the correct location as well as filename. I see if the file is in more
than one location and can make a choice.
- This method is quick, easy and reliable an I am successfully
maintaining a library of hundreds if not thousands of files this way,
organised within folders. I spend very little time now using "hunt and
peck" to find the correct files.
Almost All of the above is valid on the single file and node wiks.
Regards
Tones
On Tuesday, 6 October 2020 17:40:02 UTC+11, bimlas wrote:
>
> Lately, I’ve been unsure if I really want to use TiddlyWiki, because no
> matter how universal single HTML is, it’s still just a big file and it
> depends on the browser. Since plain text is the most timeless format
> possible (even a text file written in 1963 can still be viewed and edited
> today), I thought I would migrate to plain text files. Once I realized how
> I could convert the tiddlers extracted from HTML to the right format for
> me, I started looking for a text editor that included both preview and full
> text search. To my great surprise, the latter is supported by very few
> programs, so I can only solve it with my own Grep script. After sleepless
> nights and short circuits of thought, I came to realize that TiddlyWiki can
> handle separate files. Even if the Node.js TiddlyWiki itself ever ceases to
> exist, the notes will still be usable because they are just text files, and
> if I systematically name the tiddlers, the links between them will still be
> searchable with a simple, software-independent text search, so they remain
> usable.
>
> The question is, how can TiddlyWiki be used as a simple text editor? I
> would like to emulate the operation of Boostnote / Joplin / Typora / ...
>
> For example, if I install Ansel's Markdown
> <https://demo.santosa.family#tw5-markdown> plugin and then copy the
> Markdown files to the tiddlers directory, how can I edit them without
> adding extra metadata? If I edit ".md" files in Tiddly, then it writes them
> back to the drive in JSON format. If I change ".md" to ".tid" extension and
> write "type: x-markdown" at the beginning of the file, it will rewrite the
> file in its original form after editing, but add e.g. the "title" field
> with the current path to the file, which I don't want.
>
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