@Saq > One of the things I would dearly like to know is how many people are actually using Streams on a regular basis, and what their workflow looks like. My feeling is its a very small handful and I'll admit that probably influences how much time I devote to working on Streams.
I've been using streams regularly for a bit over a month, initially as a replacement for RoamResearch. After awhile I have to say TiddlyWiki combined with Streams is so much more flexible and "sensible" than vanilla RoamResearch. For example, I was able to implement RoamResearch-style backlinks with Streams' macros: [image: backlink.PNG] So Just joined the group to say thanks to you for your marvellous work! On Thursday, 24 June 2021 at 15:59:33 UTC+1 saq.i...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Walt, > > Hopefully you will get input from people actually using Streams as to what > works for them. > > One of the things I would dearly like to know is how many people are > actually using Streams on a regular basis, and what their workflow looks > like. My feeling is its a very small handful and I'll admit that probably > influences how much time I devote to working on Streams. > > >> But then: the result is a slew of tiddlers with long numeric IDs that, >> tho nicely presented in the edit window as a clean hierarchal outline, >> cannot be either flattened into a single tiddler, nor exported or even >> copy/pasted into the tiddler body via any built-in affordance. I've been >> going the copy/paste way so far, but it's a hard road to travel, given any >> significant length and/or complexity to your outline. >> > > Have you considered any of the methods outlined here? > https://saqimtiaz.github.io/streams/#Working%20with%20streams%20tiddlers > > Now: plugin author Saq said essentially >> <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/vlAZ_K4K63o/m/9lO63cZEAQAJ> >> that the only reason he hasn't built in any such affordance is that he >> > doesn't know what users want: a simple concatenation of the stream? a >> hierarchial structure in some form? >> > > It's a bit more than that. Each node in a stream is a tiddler and can have > any content. Streams was originally envisioned not just for rapid note > taking but also for the ability to divide your text into smaller tiddlers > as you write/edit. As such it is difficult to envisage a single export > format that would work for everyone's content. However using the > approaches outlined in the link above you can easily set up your own > markdown export. > > > >> For me, the best (and simplest?) solution would be to convert the stream >> to Markdown: each node being just a line of text preceded by a number of >> asterisks (1->any) to reflect its level in the hierarchy. >> > > The issue is that MD tiddlers will always be second class citizens in > TiddlyWiki. I think in the long run this isn't going to be a feasible > approach unless all you want to do is write your notes and export them > outside of TiddlyWiki. Also note that while MD syntax does support > multiline content in lists, TW markup does not ( at least not cleanly). > > As an aside, I think something like this unfulfilled experiment would suit > your use case from what I know of it: > https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/drA7IEx2Ng0/m/67pyPkgKBgAJ > Before you ask, no plans to take that any further, in part due to the > reasons outlined above. > > Cheers, > Saq > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/811ce0ad-b8cd-4221-a4f3-3ee986566e09n%40googlegroups.com.
