@Riz: the number of nested children seems unlimited. In Roam the smallest semantic unit seems to be a bullet point, which is member of the childrens array in the JSON.
I think this is a case of needing to figure out what is most intuitive in terms of the end result the user would want, instead of what feels semantically the most correct. I suspect Roam users wont really want 5 pages to turn into 100 tiddlers in TW, even if we did create a parent tiddler for each page that transcluded all the tiddlers created from the bullet points. The tricky thing is, do you turn the children into bullet points, paragraphs? You could even make that a global configuration option but then I suspect users would want to decide on a per tiddler basis... The tag handling is also difficult because Roam doesn't really have tags, I think what we are referring to as tags are just links. So should we really be trying to create tags from [[link]] or #link? Or do we assume that the links/backlinks that will be generated are the proper representation for this? @yoni I understand your use case and requirements. My approach is to start off step wise and try to put something together that would be useful to others wanting to import from Roam as well. That may mean that there wont be one "plugin" that does what you need, but rather a sequence of steps/plugins working together. On Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 12:35:43 PM UTC+2, Riz wrote: > > I was having the same idea as Mark - treat each child as a separate > tiddler. Because that is how usually things are in TW5 - smallest semantic > unit and all. But I guess each child is a bullet point? > > JSON mapping would be much easier if you have a definite structure. So if > the children doesn't have another level of children, it makes writing a > generalized importer much easier. > > On Tue, 5 May 2020, 13:49 Yoni Balkind, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Okay so this is looking promising! Thanks @Saq >> >> The import treats each child as a bullet point. This mimicks the way a >> page looks in Roam, but the idea of publishing on TW is that it reads more >> like a normal post, so I propose that you treat each child as just a >> paragraph (however nested children can still be treated as bulleted lists). >> >> I now see an additional problem. This might be too unique to my own >> use-case to warrant you catering for it, but let me tell you anyway in case >> you think its a broad enough problem.. >> >> Roam has no "tag" field per se.. Every internal link is a defacto tag.. >> So for example, the screenshot below shows a Roam note that has 4 different >> internal links. For my purposes, the two links in the top line operate as >> tags. I use these tags to help me locate pages that I've tagged as >> "evergreen notes" and "ready for publish". >> >> The 2 links near the bottom of the page are simple internal links to >> cross reference other posts. Roam doesn't know the difference between all >> of these links, I just use them in such a way that the ones on top are >> "tags" for my purposes. >> >> Ideally, I'd want the import to ignore the two tags at the top. They are >> internal references that aren't needed in TW. I suppose IF you were to >> tackle this in your plugin, you could have a setting to ignore hashtag >> items. Or perhaps you could stipulate that should a user want to have >> certain lines ignored they should precede that line of text with "meta:" or >> something to that effect.. >> >> >> [image: Annotation 2020-05-05 095517.png] >> >> Final point, and again this might be my personal problem and not >> applicable to your plugin, but my JSON file has 1000 plus pages and I need >> a way to only import those pages that have certain tags (#ready for >> publish).. There is a probably some tool somewhere that would allow me to >> do this directly to the JSON file, but perhaps its something you want to >> consider for your plugin. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/cMsvhrOgoBg/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/925db46b-24ad-4846-ade3-b56637aa173a%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/925db46b-24ad-4846-ade3-b56637aa173a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/456b8926-cc41-4293-b9a2-bd686fbfac42%40googlegroups.com.
