I have an experimental csv2json converter in this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywiki/csv|sort:date/tiddlywiki/qabE7I41Hos/L4kDni7ZBQAJ
When you say "thousand books", do you mean the whole book, or just meta data about the books? I don't think TW could handle the *content* of more than a couple books (depending on size of course). Good luck, Mark On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 1:26:58 AM UTC-7, László Zsigmond wrote: > > Haven't signed up for the thread, was thinking it is done automatically, > but well, now I got your answer, thank you! > > You are right, I should have linked it, it is your pluging and I wasn't > attentive enough to see that last used values are kept on new book edits. > > Unique apis that are a pain to work with: would just start out with google > books api and accept apis that can recieve the same parameters and results > in a json with the same layout, keys. > > First I would like to get my exisiting library get imported, I've read > that it is cumbersome to import csv into tiddlywiki, better of to convert > externally the cvs to json and then import it into tiddlywiki. > Do you have any suggestions / descriptions on how to do this import? Like > there are some ways of transforming csv to json, like to json/keyed > json/json array/json column array. > Would you advice to have a separate tiddlywiki for book collections? With > some thusand books won't ruin the tiddlywiki experience? > > > Best wishes, > Laci > > > > 2016. július 2., szombat 20:45:29 UTC+3 időpontban Jed Carty a következőt > írta: >> >> It took me a minute to realize that you are probably talking about my >> plugin (the one listed here >> <http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Finmysocks%2FDashboard%2FDashboard>). >> >> It is helpful to put a link to what you are talking about in posts like >> this, I often forget about things I have made and if it isn't my plugin you >> are talking about than I don't know where to look to find it. >> >> I am to the point where I think that I need to update many of my plugins >> and to make a more unified interface and settings for them. >> >> As for your actual suggestions: >> >> I agree about the language field. I was living in the US when I first >> made it and had maybe 3 non-english language books total so I didn't think >> about it. This is much more relevant now that I moved to France. When I get >> to updating the library tracker I will add that as a default field. Until >> then you can add custom fields under the settings tab. >> >> The previously selected value is kept when you add a book, so this may >> not actually be about my plugin. But I should add collections or something >> similar that you can add books to with preselected information. I will try >> to add that in a future release. >> >> We have been looking at importing and exporting tiddlers from tiddlywiki >> lately and I think that I should make sure that the tiddlers are in a form >> that can be nicely imported or exported using the built-in methods instead >> of making something new. Hopefully we will be improving the built-in >> methods. >> >> Making tiddlywiki work with 3rd party services seems to be a theme >> lately. The problem with something like this is that different services >> often have unique apis that are a pain to work with. I am not at all >> opposed to making add-on plugins to add this sort of functionality, but I >> don't think I will every make it a priority. >> If the service being contacted allows queries via xmlhttprequests than it >> probably won't be difficult but I still wouldn't have much motivation to >> work on it. >> Updating drop-downs in real time based on calls to 3rd party services in >> tiddlywiki should be possible, but I think that it would take some work to >> make it operate smoothly. >> > -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/95792f74-1bef-44e4-8ff8-a99e9ce02d04%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
