@Zhang. I second Tones' request! Would love to see the code for that linked references section.
On Friday, 2 July 2021 at 01:33:42 UTC+1 TW Tones wrote: > Zhang. > > Please share that solution if possible, it looks great. > > Tones > > On Friday, 2 July 2021 at 10:22:38 UTC+10 zhang...@gmail.com wrote: > >> @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/34e625a1-2142-4673-9696-f4852b5a9928n%40googlegroups.com.
