Hello, Thanks for your feedback. I don't know if the whole community can do something for all this (or will), but it's interesting, at least for me as a person involved in the conversation.
> 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. > There is an xls importer for TiddlyWiki <https://tiddlywiki.com/editions/xlsx-utils/>. But considering what you want to do, It does not really mean less expert knowledge. I might be wrong though, each one can have a different feeling of what is complexity. Is there a way to auto import another toddler/tiddlywiki? > Definitly. You can try this. Go to an empty wiki, look for the *tools *tab in the sidebar and click on import. You can choose a tiddlywiki file and then select tiddlers you want. You can also import files in your wiki, just by drag and drop. Try it directly on the online empty wiki <https://tiddlywiki.com/empty.html> to see what happens. You may drag any tiddler or markdown file from your PC or from another TW elsewhere on the web. There may be another IFTTT solution? > This one looks like a dead end. TiddlyWiki is not a SAAS you can request from iFTTT. there are Drafts "scripts" that do all kinds of amazing things > Maybe this is the good way to go. Since you like Drafts very much, maybe you could find (or ask for scripts) that could do what you want? (...) I'm trying to work with what I know and don't need to learn. > I think this is an issue. At least you will have to learn how to import things (Drafts notes?) and then how to save your TiddlyWiki to avoid losing your work. That mean also learn how to export your Drafts notes, since TW community can not help you very much for that. TiddlyWiki can be learned at own pace, but it has to be learned a little bit. And by the way, you're a bit unlucky since you are not starting with the easiest use case to get in ;-) I know a lot of people who would never get past the "save" instructions. > I do too!! It is a major point for anyone beginning with TW, but there are so many options and way to do this... It IS disturbing, even for me. And I've been using TW for ... (I can't remember. I'm pretty old now) I'm sorry that you felt embarrassed or humiliated. I'm hundred and ten percent sure that no one here wanted something like this. Reading what you write here, I may suggest a rewrite of your question : - You have "material" in a software called Drafts that you use and like. We don't know how is this "material" structured, what type of syntax it uses and how it can be exported. - You found that TiddlyWiki is a good tool for organizing ideas and ask yourself if it is possible to get your "material" into it easily to play with - We can say you how your material will be structured in TiddlyWiki : * as a collection of small pieces of text called tiddlers containing firstly some metadatas title: the title of one tiddler tags: tag1 [[another tag]] [[a third one]] created: 20191021161700000 modified: 20191021162700472 type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki ... The *type *meta describes the syntax of the text field that is under the first blank line (see below). The native format for tiddlers (default) is text/vnd.tiddlywiki wich is TiddlyWiki special WikiText <https://tiddlywiki.com/#WikiText>, but you can use text, svg or csv and others. <https://tiddlywiki.com/#ContentType> You can also use text/x-makdown with a plugin <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Markdown%20Plugin> ! This is the tiddler content As you see there is a blank line just above for delimiting the start of the text field You have ''all sorts'' of //formatting// options here that are specific to [[TiddlyWiki|https://tiddlywiki.com]]. But if you have declared `text/x-markdown` as metadata type, you can use markdown... ... TiddlyWiki can be run in a single html file containing both the software and all your tiddlers. It can also be run separatly with a collection of standalone files with the .tid extension. It might be a good way to mass import your notes. That said : - I don't see an obvious way to have your Drafts notes in sync into a TiddlyWiki. Importing will probably be the only way to go. That means re-importing regularly if you want to be up-to-date. - As you can understand we tiddlywikians have no Drafts script for doing the job you want to do. - And TW has no script for doing it either as far as I know. - But * I'm pretty sure that Drafts can export your notes in many formats. I suggested markdown because it is a pretty common standard that may be used in TW even if it is not perfect : There is a metadata issue. But If a Draft script can export your notes in *title.md* and their metadata (like described above) in *title.md.meta* it will be easy to have all this in a TiddlyWiki using TiddlyDesktop. * If you think that Draft can export your notes in an xls file, you may use the xls-utils described above. You will have to learn how to. The xsl-utils is powerfull BUT a bit cryptic at first sight. Hope this helps you to find a path. Regards, Sylvain @sycom -- 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/b602225e-8572-4810-a36b-c84b262364d3%40googlegroups.com.
