Re: [tw5] "I moved to Discourse" - add your name too?

2021-08-26 Thread Ed Dixon
at 7:17 PM TW Tones wrote: > Birthe/Strike, > > I hope Ed did not think "I thought he was complaining". I think my > argument points out the new platform will be valuable to everyone, and is > important, despite the pain of change. In fact it is really important Ed >

Re: [tw5] "I moved to Discourse" - add your name too?

2021-08-24 Thread Ed Dixon
:20 PM strikke...@gmail.com < strikkeglad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tony, > Ed did not complain. He would not like to miss totally out on the group > and is afraid that will happen! Explained that his need was to receive > email summary as that is the only way it would be possibl

Re: [tw5] "I moved to Discourse" - add your name too?

2021-08-23 Thread Ed Dixon
Hi All, Unless Jeremy plans to do the same sorry but no thanks and even then probably not. Other than it being a perhaps more feature rich, and newer platform is there really a burning need to make this switch now? I know its been debated here for a long time and have read the arguments both

[tw5] Re: Bob and keystrokes

2021-07-09 Thread Ed Heil
ay, July 9, 2021 at 1:38:01 AM UTC-4 PMario wrote: > Did you test it with 1 field first? > -m > > On Friday, July 9, 2021 at 4:27:39 AM UTC+2 Ed Heil wrote: > >> Thanks, Tones. I will be interested to hear it when you are ready to >> make your plans public. >> >>

[tw5] Re: Bob and keystrokes

2021-07-08 Thread Ed Heil
or editing, in general, soon. On Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 3:43:11 AM UTC-4 TW Tones wrote: > Ed, > A long answer is there are ways to edit the current tiddler, even without > a temp tiddler. I am building a solution which does this now, it involves a > little gymnastics and is hard to

[tw5] Re: Bob and keystrokes

2021-07-07 Thread Ed Heil
ddler parameter will need to be a variable. ... > depending on which tiddler is active atm. form or temp > -m > > On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 8:06:28 AM UTC+2 PMario wrote: > >> On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 4:29:30 AM UTC+2 Ed Heil wrote: >> >>> Thanks, TW, PMario. What defi

[tw5] Re: Bob and keystrokes

2021-07-05 Thread Ed Heil
Thanks, TW, PMario. What defines a temporary tiddler for these purposes? Being under $:/temp/ ? On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 9:23:48 PM UTC-4 PMario wrote: > Hi Ed, > You can create a form, that uses a temporary tiddler. Those tiddlers are > not synced. Once your values are writte

[tw5] Bob and keystrokes

2021-07-05 Thread Ed Heil
I've got a wiki going on where I keep track of information for a tabletop roleplaying game. I've got it set up with Bob so everyone can see it at once. It's pretty great. One thing that I'm finding is that sometimes Bob doesn't seem to pick up all the keystrokes it's being sent in edit text

[tw5] Re: Create tiddler with tags from variable

2021-06-17 Thread Ed Heil
tered List Variable Assignment" automatically double-brackets items in the list provided to it. https://tiddlywiki.com/#SetWidget On Saturday, June 5, 2021 at 10:11:47 PM UTC-4 TW Tones wrote: > I will just add if you \define something() and leave it empty it will > break things

[tw5] Re: Locked Tiddlers in Bob

2021-06-15 Thread Ed Heil
021 at 10:59:50 AM UTC-7 Ed Heil wrote: > >> >> Another Bob-related question -- >> >> I've had it more than once that I've lost a browser tab for one reason or >> another while it was editing a tiddler in a Bob-served wiki. At that point, >> it's locked, sinc

[tw5] Locked Tiddlers in Bob

2021-06-15 Thread Ed Heil
Another Bob-related question -- I've had it more than once that I've lost a browser tab for one reason or another while it was editing a tiddler in a Bob-served wiki. At that point, it's locked, since the tab that was editing it is gone, and it's liable to stay locked for a long time unless I

[tw5] Re: Fields vs Dictionary vs JSON

2021-06-11 Thread Ed Heil
it fields, keystroke by keystroke. Switching to regular fields in a regular tiddler as a data store seems like it may have fixed this (fingers crossed!) On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 2:30:37 PM UTC-4 PMario wrote: > On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 2:56:15 PM UTC+2 Ed Heil wrote:

[tw5] Re: Fields vs Dictionary vs JSON

2021-06-11 Thread Ed Heil
This has been a very informative thread, folks -- always enjoy hearing about big picture decisions in TW. On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 2:42:12 AM UTC-4 PMario wrote: > > The biggest disadvantage for data-tiddlers is, that if you add / change or > remove a value from a data-tiddler all *visible*

[tw5] Fields vs Dictionary vs JSON

2021-06-10 Thread Ed Heil
Right now I'm working on a project where a number of tiddlers are just little chunks of key-value data. I'm putting them in JSONTiddlers, because that seems to be what tiddlers turn into naturally when I start setting data on their indices. I just noticed that there's a nice thing available

[tw5] Re: Simple authentication options for Bob

2021-06-10 Thread Ed Heil
Thanks for all these suggestions! On Monday, June 7, 2021 at 1:06:40 PM UTC-4 scot wrote: > Hi Ed, > not sure if you've seen this link on TiddlyWikiLinks > <https://links.tiddlywiki.com/> or if it's relevant to your setup. > > "Add Login to a Node.js App with Cloudfla

[tw5] Re: Simple authentication options for Bob

2021-06-07 Thread Ed Heil
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/websocket.html > > I am hoping that the day job will slow down enough soon so I can get back > to working on the secure wiki server and have a simple install script, but > I don't have any real idea how long it will be before I have time for that. > > O

[tw5] Simple authentication options for Bob

2021-06-04 Thread Ed Heil
I just got Bob working on a digital ocean droplet behind an nginx proxy (yay!) and I would like some kind of authentication going on. The "credentials" system which works with basic tiddlywiki would be great. However, when I run it with something like: node ./tiddlywiki.js Wikis/BobWiki/

[tw5] Re: Create tiddler with tags from variable

2021-06-04 Thread Ed Heil
Mat's initial suggestion worked great. I didn't need this to appear everywhere, or in edit mode. Just in a certain class of tiddlers which are already being displayed through a special template (which is where this button will appear). Thanks, everyone! -- You received this message because

[tw5] Create tiddler with tags from variable

2021-06-03 Thread Ed Heil
Hello, I've been trying to do something that seems like it should be simple but maybe isn't. I'm in a tiddler called "Three Word Title." I wish to add a tiddler tagged with its name and one other tag, in response to hitting a button. I would think I'd use something like:

[tw5] Re: [Comment] My Ongoing Irritations with Google Groups

2021-05-31 Thread Ed Dixon
This has been an ongoing topic forever! Just my 2 cents but we appear to be having a pretty good "discourse" in here on this subject right now. The accumulated knowledge and history of TW is right here in one place (other than GIT of course) easily searchable and while I am sure there maybe

[tw5] Displaying certain tiddlers differently

2021-05-30 Thread Ed Heil
Hi! I'm using TW to make a character sheet for a role-playing game. Right now a tiddler for a character is associated with a data tiddler. The character tiddler has a view template which displays all the stuff in the data tiddler in a readable & usable manner. I'm thinking it would be nice

[tw5] Github saver hella slow lately?

2021-05-13 Thread Ed Heil
Over the last week I've noticed the github saver has gone from "kind of slow" to "really really really slow." Wondering if anyone else had seen the same thing? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[tw5] Re: Athens: a VC backed, open-source Roam competitor

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Heil
"you can't really make these apps with JavaScript" News to me! On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 4:25:58 PM UTC-5 dieg...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello all, > > A YC (venture capital firm) backed open-source Roam alternative launched > today on HackerNews: > >

[tw5] Remove Specific content for export

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Dixon
I am sure there is a filter of some kind I should be able to come up with here but need a quick soltion and have learned to check this forum first rather than trying to recreate the wheel and my brain damage does not lend itself so well to doing this type of thing anymore anyway. I have a ton

[tw5] TiddlyMap raster question

2021-02-28 Thread Ed Heil
I'm going to use TiddlyMap to key a map (for a roleplaying game) -- put in the map and then use the raster feature to place tiddlers in specific locations on the map, so I can click on the place on the map and pull up the tiddler which describes what is there. Essentially I"m using it as if it

Re: [tw5] Re: TiddlyWiki Project Name

2021-01-04 Thread Ed Heil
Hi Jeremy, Re-reading this message (and studiously avoiding making any suggestions for new names) the idea of "targeting more modern JavaScript engines" makes me wonder about the question of "how modern a browser do you need to have to have a working Tiddlywiki?" With regards to minimum

Re: [tw5] Re: TiddlyWiki Project Name

2020-12-30 Thread Ed Heil
Data point from a fairly new (<1y) user. "Tiddlywiki" and "tiddler" stopped sounding weird to me very quickly. Renaming "because there's something inherently wrong with the name" seems silly to me. Renaming because of a new baseline codebase/breaking changes? that makes more sense. It does

Re: [tw5] Service worker

2020-12-05 Thread Ed Heil
Nick, Have you looked at Quine2? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quine-2/id1450128957 On Saturday, December 5, 2020 at 12:15:34 PM UTC-5 Nick wrote: > Thanks to all, It seems SWs' are really not the way forward. The 'offline' > feature was the appeal of TW, but as an app on my home screen,

[tw5] TW-relevant Wired article

2020-12-04 Thread Ed Heil
Lots of good stuff in this article, "'Real' Programming is an Elitist Myth" https://www.wired.com/story/databases-coding-real-programming-myth/ This is the part that made me think of Tiddlywiki: *Code culture can be solipsistic and exhausting. Programmers fight over semicolon placement and the

[tw5] Re: WikiWords vs Double Brackets

2020-11-20 Thread Ed Heil
r are showing a lot of ill-advised red because > of every camelcase word and you will have a harsh time spotting the true > errors or would have to clutter your dictionary with all your camels... > > > Le vendredi 20 novembre 2020 à 16:47:20 UTC+1, Ed Heil a écrit : > >>

[tw5] Re: WikiWords vs Double Brackets

2020-11-20 Thread Ed Heil
Hey, thanks, all, this is exactly the kind of discussion I was hoping to hear! It's been very informative, and I've really enjoyed looking at, e.g., Soren's Zettelkasten! On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 5:47:11 AM UTC-5 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > Ciao Soren > > On Thursday, 19 November 2020 at

[tw5] Re: WikiWords vs Double Brackets

2020-11-19 Thread Ed Heil
hought I'd ask. On Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 6:13:34 PM UTC-5 TW Tones wrote: > Ed, > > Could you give some examples of your titles? > >- My suspicions is you have a misconception on titles (stand to be >corrected). > > As soon as you start to use tags and tiddle

[tw5] WikiWords vs Double Brackets

2020-11-18 Thread Ed Heil
As a relatively new tiddlywiki user, I'm always interested in the opinions of people who have been TiddlyWiki'ing for a long time, and this topic came to mind. When I first started using TW (earlier this year), I tended to use WikiWords for titles. I've since gone almost entirely to double

[tw5] Re: General discussion: How do you use tags? (The philosophy of tags)

2020-10-07 Thread Ed Heil
Bimlas, The "links-only" path of tiddlywiki-ing you're describing is very interesting! I have previously noticed a tension between tag-and-field-based and text-and-link-based organization, or to put it another way, metadata-based organization vs. text-based organization. It's an interesting

Re: [tw5] Re: combining and syncing Tiddlywiki and Moodle

2020-10-02 Thread Ed Dixon
Hi Jan, Long time Moodle and TW5 fan here :) Years ago, several here many had joined me in a push to add the TinCan API LMS standard to TW5 and I think your vision here and mine are similar in how TW5 could be used. What we were working on could / should work well with any stanard based LMS

Re: [tw5] Still frustrated

2020-10-01 Thread Ed Heil
Tones, Agreed on all points. I didn't meant to suggest that the differences between Tiddlywiki and other programming environments are arbitrary or random. Generally TW is the way it is so it can do the things it does. On Wed, Sep 30, 2020, at 10:04 PM, TW Tones wrote: > Ed, >

[tw5] Re: TiddlyTools/timer.html Calendar *** new options ***

2020-09-30 Thread Ed Dixon
Eric, This does look excellent! I have been looking for a good calendar that can replace the basic one I have been using and this looks perefect! Is it possible or can it automagicly import tiddlers from a tid file from my old TW but handle converting the dates to a US MM/DD/ format?

Re: [tw5] Still frustrated

2020-09-30 Thread Ed Heil
As a programmer myself, I would agree agree that tiddlywiki doesn't let you exploit your existing programming knowledge very much at all. It's very different from most programming environments, in that it's almost entirely declarative, it operates by transforming an underlying series of

[tw5] Re: Roam Research is NOT a model. It's a money machine.

2020-09-18 Thread Ed Heil
I ran across a thread on Twitter a little while back which pointed out that Roam's popularity first exploded among the so-called "Rationalist" community on the internet (associated with the websites LessWrong and SlateStarCodex). https://twitter.com/melissamcewen/status/1277465062010163200 On

[tw5] Re: How many of you use core TiddlyWIki?

2020-09-12 Thread Ed Dixon
I too try to stay with the core as much as possible. I agree with Talha131 on this as it does describe my situation here pretty well. I no longer have the capacity to make extensive changes or adjust things for many of the awesome addons being produced to my needs due to brain damage but I do

[tw5] Re: Life timeline

2020-09-01 Thread Ed Heil
visualize it? On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 10:03:49 PM UTC-4 TW Tones wrote: > Ed, > > I have a long term goal to do this, and building that reference needs > "Fuzzy dates" and yes making a timeline important. > > In someways its too large a subject, but I will be happy to

[tw5] Life timeline

2020-09-01 Thread Ed Heil
Looking for advice on how to raise my game on one of my first tiddlywikis ever. It's a timeline of life events, so I can go back and answer my questions like "what grade was I in when that happened? When did I move there? When did I meet them?". It started out as just a textual list, with

[tw5] Re: Day Number

2020-08-28 Thread Ed Heil
Hey, thanks all. That macro is outstanding. I'd definitely rather exploit existing filter techniques than add in a plugin! I had run across the term "ordinal date" in wikipedia for this thing, and "day of year" would also be an intuitively clear way to refer to it. I'll pick one of those

[tw5] Day Number

2020-08-27 Thread Ed Heil
Hi, I'm interested in populating a field on a tiddler with the "day number" (Jan 1 = 1, Dec 31 = 365 or 366). There doesn't seem to be an option in the now macro which will give me that number, unless I'm missing something. I was thinking this might be a good reason to create my first

[tw5] Re: Lost in transclusion

2020-08-20 Thread Ed Heil
and the wikify widget is finally, for the first time, clear to me. Thanks! On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 7:47:32 PM UTC-4 TW Tones wrote: > Werner, > > I am confident Eric is spot on. It was the correct understanding of this > issue and the use of wikify that stopped me getting stuck

[tw5] Re: Apply changes and keep editor open?

2020-08-12 Thread Ed Heil
BTW, just as a very simple solution -- I've found it helpful in this context to use the "eye" tool in the toolbar to have a tiddler open simultaneously for viewing and editing; this works if you're editing the same tiddler where you'll see the changes. If you're editing one tiddler and

[tw5] TMTOWTDI

2020-08-11 Thread Ed Heil
The slogan of the Perl programming language was (is) "There's More Than One Way To Do It" and I've been interested to see how true that is in Tiddlywiki! There have been a couple instances recently where I've had the fun of doing something in more than one way, and being glad there's more

[tw5] Re: Advice for a iOS and iPadOS only user

2020-08-09 Thread Ed Heil
Hi Ivan, Yep, Quine 2 does exactly what you're looking for, in terms of keeping everything local and syncing to iCloud (or any other sufficiently featureful file service provider on iOS). You can indeed insert images, either embedded in the wiki or sitting in a nearby folder (though this

[tw5] Re: codemirror - editor select button?

2020-08-06 Thread Ed Heil
rate width for a given point size. On Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 6:34:36 PM UTC-4, TW Tones wrote: > > Ed, > > A very simple question on font size, have you use a middle ctrl-Mouse > roller, or ctrl + ctrl - ? > > Zooming in and out often has a greater influence than any permanent

[tw5] codemirror - editor select button?

2020-08-05 Thread Ed Heil
I just installed codemirror for the first time, and it seems quite outstanding for editing anything with code. But I'm not that interested in using it for ordinary editing because the fonts are kinda large and I don't need monospacing when I'm just writing plain text. So there are a couple

Re: [tw5] Re: List-tagged-draggable text width

2020-08-04 Thread Ed Heil
That absolutely did the trick, thanks! -- Ed Heil edh...@fastmail.fm On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, at 9:13 PM, Eric Shulman wrote: > On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 5:37:18 PM UTC-7, TW Tones wrote: >> I changed the template and it displayed correctly, but no drag and drop. >> <$

[tw5] List-tagged-draggable text width

2020-08-03 Thread Ed Heil
I have a list-tagged-draggable where I'd like the draggable objects to be kind of big (maybe up to 2-3 sentences). However, it's looking like text will not wrap -- each paragraph/div is a single line that spills out to the right. E.g. to reproduce: Create new tiddler with contents: <> In

[tw5] Re: [ pre-release ] New goodies in the TiddlyWiki core

2020-07-30 Thread Ed Heil
This is a neat trick! However, it doesn't let you tab your way past tag creation -- if you try to tab directly from title to text you get stuck on tags. Do you know if there's any way to skip tag creation in the tab order as well? On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 10:30:39 PM UTC-4, Saq Imtiaz

[tw5] Re: [ pre-release ] New goodies in the TiddlyWiki core

2020-07-29 Thread Ed Heil
Oh, I should have also said -- I tried both these lite editor things and they're both awesome. Really cool stuff! On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 1:40:37 PM UTC-4, Ed Heil wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 12:42:35 PM UTC-4, Saq Imtiaz wrote: >> >> @Mark,

[tw5] Re: [ pre-release ] New goodies in the TiddlyWiki core

2020-07-29 Thread Ed Heil
On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 12:42:35 PM UTC-4, Saq Imtiaz wrote: > > @Mark, > > Completely agreed on the editor toolbar. I've hacked mine to give all of > those buttons a tabindex of -1. > > Note that when you tab into the text field, it does automatically dismiss > the hanging popup (new

Re: [tw5] Re: Chatbot Plugin

2020-07-20 Thread Ed Heil
That's really awesome! And I'll be bookmarking that Online Library. On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, at 6:29 AM, TiddlyTweeter wrote: > Ed Heil wrote: >> Off topic, but I'm fascinated to hear you worked with Eugene Gendlin! His >> work, and that of his student Ann Weiser Cornell, have be

[tw5] Re: Chatbot Plugin

2020-07-19 Thread Ed Heil
Off topic, but I'm fascinated to hear you worked with Eugene Gendlin! His work, and that of his student Ann Weiser Cornell, have been very helpful to me, and I even really enjoyed his philosophical work, _Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning_, to the degree I understood it! On Saturday,

Re: [tw5] Re: Announcement: TW5-powered ebooks

2020-06-25 Thread Ed Heil
Thanks, Xavier! On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 1:02:08 PM UTC-4, Xavier wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > Not yet ready because of some pressing redesign, but it will eventually be > released as a normal plugin, hopefully via some Community Plugin Library > that TW5 greatest minds

[tw5] Re: Announcement: TW5-powered ebooks

2020-06-25 Thread Ed Heil
Was the "epub slicer" ever released publicly? On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 6:33:57 AM UTC-4, Xavier Cazin wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > TL;DR: Go to > https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9783962558772/great-expectations-serapis-classics, > > click on "Read an extract" and play with it. Then

Re: [tw5] Personal News

2020-05-29 Thread Ed Heil
Thanks for letting us know, Jeremy, wishing you a good recovery and no more "dips"! On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 3:23:07 AM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Thank you again, reading these messages is a great comfort for me and my > family. Things dipped a bit earlier this week and I ended up

[tw5] Repeated externalizing images

2020-05-27 Thread Ed Heil
I just ran across a painful "gotcha." I have a tiddlywiki with some external images, created by running a command like this -- https://tiddlywiki.com/static/ExternalImages.html I added a few more images by dragging and dropping, and then decided I wanted to externalize them again. So I ran

[tw5] Re: String concatenated to macro as attribute of tag

2020-05-26 Thread Ed Heil
Thanks, folks! I thought I had tried the "feed it into a macro through a variable" trick but apparently I didn't quite get it right. I like the idea of a more precise and specific log field, too, that's great! On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 7:29:37 PM UTC-4, TonyM wrote: > > Ed,

[tw5] String concatenated to macro as attribute of tag

2020-05-26 Thread Ed Heil
This has been driving me batty and makes me hope there is a simple solution I'm missing. I have a button which is supposed to create a new tiddler named "Dream Log -MM-DD" tagged with the current tiddler. It looks like this and NEARLY works: \define dream-log-button() <$button>New Dream

Re: [tw5] Re: [Presenting]: STROLL official rollout!

2020-05-09 Thread Ed Heil
David, On the issue of the autocomplete -- it might be worth calling out in the tutorial that the autocomplete plugin won't work on iOS, or anyplace you don't have arrow keys, as this will be a problem for people using it, e.g., through Quine 2. It's also not trivial to disable it; you can't

[tw5] Re: [Presenting]: STROLL official rollout!

2020-05-08 Thread Ed Heil
This is outstanding. I feel like it could completely transform how one works with tiddlywikis. Right now it feels like the learning path for a new tiddlywiki user is * use links because they're easy and basic * realize you can't rename tiddlers without a lot of work -- grab a plugin to fix

[tw5] Re: Notion encourages busy work

2020-05-03 Thread Ed Heil
In my very short acquaintance with TiddlyWiki I've had the following arc so far: * use the basic tools: mainly linking, simple transclusion * learn how to do some complicated stuff (this took a lot of effort for me) (no, seriously, a LOT of effort) * discover that there are built-in ways to

[tw5] Re: I want to edit something, oh no that's a transclusion

2020-05-01 Thread Ed Heil
Hi Tony, This is very neat. That list widget doesn't seem to work for me though, I don't ever see the edit button if I put it inside that widget. On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 7:12:46 PM UTC-4, TonyM wrote: > > Ed, > > If you are going to Role your own, this simple tip may he

[tw5] Re: I want to edit something, oh no that's a transclusion

2020-04-30 Thread Ed Heil
, April 30, 2020 at 10:17:45 AM UTC-4, Ed Heil wrote: > > This is something that often happens to me: I want to update text in a > tiddler, and when I get in there, I see that text is actually a > {{transclusion}} -- possibly one I made using excision. Now I have to > remembe

[tw5] I want to edit something, oh no that's a transclusion

2020-04-30 Thread Ed Heil
This is something that often happens to me: I want to update text in a tiddler, and when I get in there, I see that text is actually a {{transclusion}} -- possibly one I made using excision. Now I have to remember what the name of the transclusion is, close the tiddler, go to the search bar,

[tw5] Re: search text saved

2020-04-28 Thread Ed Heil
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 12:07:56 PM UTC-4, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 8:39:44 AM UTC-7, Ed Heil wrote: >> >> some way to specify that search box contents/results do not have to be >> saved a

[tw5] search text saved

2020-04-28 Thread Ed Heil
iki state? Or if they are saved, the results don't have to be displayed on page load? Or failing that, maybe some simple tiddlywiki command line that I can run to programmatically remove them before I upload? Just thought I'd check. Thanks, Ed -- You received this message because you are

Re: [tw5] Re: Ride the Wave

2020-04-14 Thread Ed Heil
That's exactly what I was thinking of! Thank you, I wish I'd found that earlier! On Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 8:54:05 AM UTC-4, David Gifford wrote: > > Ed, I remember recently seeing just such a cheatsheet posted somewhere > from a link in this forum. So I know

Re: [tw5] Re: Ride the Wave

2020-04-14 Thread Ed Heil
Same re: Tiddlyspot, the SSL issue is kinda a big deal. With regards to intros to tiddlywiki, I wanted to throw the following out there to the community In terms of intros/guides to Tiddlywiki, one of the things that's been a thorn in my side while learning is all the various kinds of

Re: [tw5] Re: Ride the Wave

2020-04-13 Thread Ed Heil
(although I see that the tutorial shows how to export to a static site, something which you want to use Node for) On Monday, April 13, 2020 at 11:14:45 PM UTC-4, Ed Heil wrote: > > Yes, after going through a lot of back and forth about which save method I > should use when I firs

Re: [tw5] Re: Ride the Wave

2020-04-13 Thread Ed Heil
Yes, after going through a lot of back and forth about which save method I should use when I first started messing with tw's, I've landed on TiddlyDesktop (and Quine2 for iOS) -- It's zero-friction; the only issues seem to be dragging and dropping things from other tiddlywikis. On Monday,

[tw5] Re: Tiddly Sunshine

2020-04-09 Thread Ed Heil
Hey, I'm doing exactly that (keeping a COVID-19 journal with Tiddlywiki). It's mostly not a personal journal, but a collection of everything I learn about the pandemic from news and such, though there's a little personal experience in there too. It's been a great way to learn about the

[tw5] "Retain Story Ordering"

2020-04-04 Thread Ed Heil
There's a button that lets you "retain story ordering" in a new Wiki. I can't find documentation as to what that means anywhere. The effect of it is to put make the default tiddlers "[list[$:/StoryList]]" which I assume means that the default stories are defined by the list attribute of a

Re: [tw5] Re: new tiddler with tag button

2020-03-20 Thread Ed Heil
Yeah, that seems like the best way to go. Great, thank you, that's what I suspected all along, but the example made me wonder! -- Ed Heil edh...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Mar 20, 2020, at 3:14 PM, Mat wrote: > Ed, turns out you're right; the example > <https://tiddlywiki.com/#WidgetM

Re: [tw5] Re: new tiddler with tag button

2020-03-20 Thread Ed Heil
something slightly more complicated than the example. "It's just an example, and for the reasons you give, you might not want to actually do it that way" is an acceptable answer, if that is the case. :) -- Ed Heil edh...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Mar 20, 2020, at 12:25 AM,

[tw5] Re: iOS Users, Rejoice! Quine 2 is here

2020-03-19 Thread Ed Heil
This is the best thing in the history of things. It was the one missing thing to make TW a part of my computing everywhere. I'm glad the thing that is exatly what I wished for turned

[tw5] Re: new tiddler with tag button

2020-03-19 Thread Ed Heil
ing some way you could use a template without running across that inconvenience, of the template showing up whenever you were looking for the actual thing it's a template for. Does that make any sense? If not, no worries -- it is kind of a trivial matter. On Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 3:05:54 PM

[tw5] new tiddler with tag button

2020-03-19 Thread Ed Heil
blem) go away with a macro, I'm just wondering if I'm missing some clever tiddlywiki-fu that would make the template idea work better. Thanks, Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: [tw5] TW on iOS

2020-03-09 Thread Ed Heil
Outstanding. Thank you! On Monday, March 9, 2020 at 4:23:03 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Ed > > Chris Hunt is now working on Quine 2, which is built around the new iOS 11 > and 13 file APIs, much as you suggest. There’s a TestFlight beta, more > details in Quine’

[tw5] TW on iOS

2020-03-09 Thread Ed Heil
I've been having a ton of fun with tiddlywikis lately; the only thing that's been getting me down is using them on iOS, which is a pain. There's the Quine app which is neat, but wish I could do more. What I'm thinking of is the fact that as of iOS 11, it was possible for the Files app to

Re: [tw5] Re: ExternalizeImages - having trouble

2020-03-03 Thread Ed Heil
Oh wow thank you! Putting that at the top of my reading list! > On Mar 4, 2020, at 12:00 AM, Donald Coates wrote: > >  > Just discovered that site myself and it's awesome. Also check out 'the book' > I am finding it very informative even as a wip. Welcome to the obsession! > External

[tw5] Re: ExternalizeImages - having trouble

2020-03-03 Thread Ed Heil
Welp, of course, as soon as you ask for help in public, you figure it out yourself. I was reading this, hoping for info on build targets -- https://www.didaxy.com/exporting-static-sites-from-tiddlywiki-part-2 and I saw that there they were using commands like: tiddlywiki --rendertiddlers

[tw5] Re: ExternalizeImages - having trouble

2020-03-03 Thread Ed Heil
Oh, I thought maybe I should try this with a build target instead of a shell script. So I looked in the tiddlywiki.com docs for an example of build targets. and couldn't find one. The build *command* is described here -- https://tiddlywiki.com/#BuildCommand -- but it doesn't talk about

[tw5] ExternalizeImages - having trouble

2020-03-03 Thread Ed Heil
Hey, new to tiddlywikis, moderatley obsessed. I have a wiki with some images in it which I'd like to externalize, so I'm looking at the instructions here -- https://tiddlywiki.com/#ExternalImages and I'm not getting them to work. What I've done -- create a wikifolder to work in. tiddlywiki

[tw5] Re: [TW5] Bob and BobEXE version 1.3.1, Splenda, bug fixes

2019-10-16 Thread Ed
Hi Jed, Love the work you're doing, and this quote:"The target audience of Bob consists of me, and people without the technical backgroundto be able to use tiddlywiki conveniently." targets me as I am one of those "people without the technical background" Keep up the good work!! Thanks again

[tw5] Re: [TW5] Bob and BobEXE version 1.2.4, lightly steamed asparagus, file server and wiki management updates

2019-10-11 Thread Ed
. Anybody out there with a solution. Many Thanks in advance, Ed Op vrijdag 13 september 2019 13:51:31 UTC+2 schreef Jed Carty: > > It looks like I forgot to release a lot of changes. I haven't finished the > inter-server federation setup as much as I would like, so none of that is

[tw5] Re: [TW5] Bob and BobEXE version 1.2.4, lightly steamed asparagus, file server and wiki management updates

2019-10-11 Thread Ed
Great, thanks Dave, for calling in! Mm, where's Stobot? I recall him using Bob also. Have fun guys. Ed Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 04:10:41 UTC+2 schreef Dave: > > I love Bob. Bob's my uncle. > > I love being able to read tiddler content from outside the browser system > (e.g v

[tw5] Re: Image visability and user-friendliness

2019-10-10 Thread Ed
Hi Kelli Jae Baeli, I certainly would second that, please do try-out Jed's software. Bob has a learning curve for th uninitiated and Jed is still making changes for the better, but the potential is great! Cheers! Edm. Op woensdag 3 juli 2019 23:32:52 UTC+2 schreef Jed Carty: > > If you are

[tw5] Re: [TW5] Bob and BobEXE version 1.2.4, lightly steamed asparagus, file server and wiki management updates

2019-10-10 Thread Ed
Hi Hans, That makes just two of us. Now some say two is a crowd. But there must be more TW5+Bob-Aficionados? Hellooo! Anybody else out there??? Best. Ed. Op donderdag 3 oktober 2019 15:46:11 UTC+2 schreef HansWobbe: > > Hi Ed: > > Nice to see another entusiastic user of Bob. > &

[tw5] Re: [TW5] Bob and BobEXE version 1.2.4, lightly steamed asparagus, file server and wiki management updates

2019-10-02 Thread Ed
Hi Hans, Count me in as an enthousiastic user! Tschüß, Hans Op zaterdag 14 september 2019 14:52:14 UTC+2 schreef HansWobbe: > > Perhaps a list of enthusiastic users would be useful? If so, I'd sure add > my name. > > Cheers > Hans > > > On Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 5:16:30 AM UTC-4,

[tw5] Re: [TW5] Bob and BobEXE version 1.2.4, lightly steamed asparagus, file server and wiki management updates

2019-10-02 Thread Ed
Hi Jed, Ed here, >From Amsterdam -> Paris Finally time to get back here. I think BoB is an excellent program, still pestered by some hiccups, although these are probably my mistakes. Hope really that you still go on developing the program as the potential is absolutely great. I try, a

[tw5] Re: How to "find and replace" when calling a field in a template?

2019-07-02 Thread Ed
is doc > <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#split%20Operator>, at bottom. > Thanks that's good to know. On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 2:20:56 PM UTC+1, TonyM wrote: > > Ed, > > The quick answer is to place the filter inside triple braces without > surrounding quotes > > Name

[tw5] Re: How to "find and replace" when calling a field in a template?

2019-07-02 Thread Ed
Thank you Tony for your reply. Perhaps an alternate strategy is to just copy the code ICKToz7BLLA the > generate a link or two > In this case you could use [addprefix[https://www.youtube.com/embed/ > ]] > I want to use the full link simply because it is easier to copy and paste on mobile. But

[tw5] How to "find and replace" when calling a field in a template?

2019-07-01 Thread Ed
Sorry for the poorly worded title. Hopefully my use case will make it clear what I am asking. I want to quickly add YouTube videos to my wiki by copying a link into a text box. I have a textbox/button that creates a tiddler and adds the text entered to a url field: <$edit-text

[tw5] Re: How to change the size of videos embedded with '_canonical_uri'?

2019-06-29 Thread Ed
Thank you! I thought I had tried that already but apparently not... On Saturday, June 29, 2019 at 5:47:10 PM UTC+1, Mark S. wrote: > > This works: > > > > > > where url is the field containing the path to your video. > > > On Saturday, June 29, 2019 at 8:23:24

[tw5] Re: How to change the size of videos embedded with '_canonical_uri'?

2019-06-29 Thread Ed
> have you tried > > field - uri = videos/test.mp4 -- no quotes > > > > I can't remember if quotes around a variable transclusion witll work or > not but wouldn't hurt to try. > Yeah I tried that - it doesn't work. I think I will create a new post asking if it is possible to transclude text

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