Hello everyone Thanks so much for all the discussion. I was hoping for something a bit simpler and with some creative thinking may be able to come up with some suggestions that need less expert knowledge and simpler steps. For example: - I recently (a recent post?) read about writing to a google spreadsheet and then reading that with Tiddlywiki. That person has obviously worked out how to read a google spreadsheet. - Quine works with the share button on iPhone. It stores the item that you share as a separate Tiddlywiki (I think) which you then need to import. If there was a way to auto import that may well solve the problem. Is there a way to auto import another toddler/tiddlywiki? - there are Drafts "scripts" that do all kinds of amazing things. I could ask the drafts community but I'm not sure what to ask them right now. I'm sure drafts can export a HTML, but it may be able to do something that is even easier to get into tw? The scripts can do amazing things and work with many diverse apps. - I think it was in regard to IFTTT that I read about the google spreadsheet (I think I was a widget - or whatever IFTTT calls them- that did something like that). There may be another IFTTT solution? There are also other services that join apps and services together (Zapier). Not sure if it is worth thinking about?
Your suggestions above may well be more elegant and natural and not relying on other things but I'm trying to work with what I know and don't need to learn. What I don't understand is if you have something in a file (HTML, text or other) can you get tw to read/import it automatically? I guess you can link to things outside tw, is there something that does more than link or can tw read something that it has a link for? These may all be newbie silly questions but they are mine and I'm sure there are a lot of others out there who have them or similar. I have an opinion on the side discussion that was happening about making tw more friendly for beginners and that is the struggle I am having now. I'd like to write some more about that experience but I'll just mention the first thing that came to mind. I quickly discovered (after the answer to my first question in this group - I think from Tony?) that if I want to get into tw more then I need to learn CSS (or at least know what it is and some of the terms) and then I learnt that it helps learning CSS if I have some understanding of HTML. I found a couple of courses and even the few intro lessons have been enormously helpful. Not sure if you agree that you need to know those things, but even the language that you are using in this group to help me assumes lots of knowledge (CSS and HTML!?). I'm not criticising but trying to give you a newbie perspective. I didn't really plan to join a new community but I guess I have been drawn in! It is kind of interesting and fun as was mentioned, but it is also time consuming and it is a bit humiliating and embarrassing to have to ask silly questions and spend a lot of time trying to understand difficult ideas and language, even when someone is trying to help you. One simple thing that can be done is to make the easy courses more readily findable (front and centre on the front page?). I found tiddlytoddler quite good (and a relief!) and another one or two that I can't remember now. The videos are quite good (8 part series) but I didn't go first to them because I was in a hurry. I'm not sure that it was easy to find them apart from youtube directing me there after I watched the one that was linked to on the tw front page. I realise that pointing out these issues probably means being part of the answer. I'll have a think about that but I can at least try to document what I learn in simple language that even I can understand and make it available for others. While its still all fresh and frustrating I'll try to remember and write some of the things that I struggled with when I first started that the intro page didn't help with (or confused me). I guess that the other question to face is how user friendly do you really want it to be. I know a lot of people who would never get past the "save" instructions. It took me quite some time to understand. Tiddly desktop is ok but that wasn't immediately intuitive either. Please accept these criticisms as from a friend. You probably already know these things but I thought it worth pointing out anyway. I'll think about how I can be part of the solution and will help if I can (and you will have me!). This is an ongoing discussion and probably worth its own topic (if there isn't already one). I really appreciate all of your help and only mention all of this to try to make things better and give you a little perspective. Regards Steve *We need to learn and remind ourselves every day that God's favour - His blessings and answers to prayer - comes to us not on the basis of our works, but on the basis of the infinite merit of Jesus Christ.* *- Jerry Bridges, *The Gospel for Everyday Life (+61) 0435 097 077 On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 11:25, TonyM <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve > > See > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/tiddlywiki/DOM%7Csort:date/tiddlywiki/Z--Tvs6eftY/hEv6fVvnCgAJ > for > a short discussion on cleaning html. If you had a way to display your > current content in HTML and a browser plugin to copy html this html cleaner > may be a good way to import content. > > Keep in mind rather than build many to many converters in tiddlywiki is is > better to rely on an external many to many converter, ideal batch driven, > that allows access to a greater range of conversions. Perhaps as a > community we need to add wiki markup to a good converter. > > However recent discussions on regex show using it to extract content from > html. Which after all is a good pervasive standard. I believe the visual > editor also accepts pasting html but it stays in html (in which you can > insert wikitext). > > Regards > Tony > > > On Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 2:10:53 PM UTC+11, Steve S wrote: >> >> Hello readers, >> >> I am trying to work out how to get stuff (e.g. notes) into tw from other >> apps like drafts. I have tried tw as a GTD capture bucket and its ok but I >> don't think anything can beat Drafts app and perhaps nvAlt on the Mac. I >> like tw as a place to store and review and manipulate the stuff I have >> stored but I can't find an easy way to get stuff into tw from those other >> apps. >> >> I hesitated writing here as I'm not sure how relevant, simple or silly it >> is, but then I have been told that there is no such thing as a silly >> question and that if you ask it you often find others who were afraid to!? >> >> Any help appreciated. >> >> Steve >> > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cb7b17c9-6ee9-4a8a-bd1a-f9e124944643%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cb7b17c9-6ee9-4a8a-bd1a-f9e124944643%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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