@Alexander this was a quick 10 minute hack that was ultimately abandoned due to a lack of interest and response from participants. There is no intention now of developing this further.
Your best option for importing from Roam is to do so with Markdown files, as discussed earlier in this thread. On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 8:08:06 AM UTC+2, Alexander Kogan wrote: > > Hello, > I used your extension to import my notes from Roam. It worked quite well, > but there are several things, that didn't work as expected. I tried to find > the GitHub repository to enter an issue, but couldn't find it. Do you have > one where I should post this? > For now I'll put it here: > > One of the issues is quite severe, because I'd have to check and correct > every tiddler manually. The bullet points are not indented correctly. For > example if I have in Roam a structure like this: > > * Meeting > ** Project1 is fine > *** Participant1, Participant2 > ** Project2 is late > *** Participant3 > ** Project3 > ** Project4 > *** Participant4 > *** working > > If I import with your TW I get: > > * Meeting > ** Project1 is fine > *** Participant1, Participant2 > *** Project2 is late > **** Participant3 > **** Project3 > **** Project4 > ***** Participant4 > ***** working > > So the indentation is not reset correctly. > > The other issues are probably with how I used Roam which doesn't quite > work for TiddlyWiki: > 1. the #tags are not converted to links and TW also doesn't recognise them > as references with blinks from Stroll ( > https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html). That's solvable by tweaking > Stroll though I guess? > 2. In Roam there is a possibility to link pages in titles like this: > [[[[Windows]] 10]] > That would create two pages: > - Windows > - [[Windows]] 10 > Where you can click on Windows in the title of Windows 10 which would > bring you to the Windows page. > But I didn't find a way to do something like this in TW yet. Fortunately I > didn't have many titles like this and could resolve those manually. > > I hope this feedback helps you. > > Kind regards > Alex > > On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 05:21:55 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > >> @Yoni @Anne-Laure >> >> Here is something to play with for importing from Roam to understand what >> is possible, though please don't expect too much as I've only had about ten >> minutes to work on this. >> >> https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/roam-import.html >> >> How do tags work on Roam? Does it have tags? As far as I can tell from a >> quick glance, #tag is actually just a link to [[tag]] >> should #xyz be turned into a tag on that tiddler? >> >> Regards, >> Saq >> >> On Monday, May 4, 2020 at 9:23:29 AM UTC+2, Anne-Laure Le Cunff wrote: >>> >>> I was looking at the exact same thing yesterday and couldn't figure it >>> out as the structure is quite different. Attaching two sample JSON files >>> for people who want to have a look. >>> >>> On Monday, May 4, 2020 at 7:54:05 AM UTC+1, Yoni Balkind wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi All >>>> >>>> My intended workflow is to draft notes in Roam, and then if I deem >>>> certain notes worthy of publish, I publish them in my public-facing >>>> TiddlyWiki. >>>> >>>> However these "published" notes might became quite voluminous and if I >>>> update them in Roam I want them to update in my TW as well as it would be >>>> too laborious to manually maintain two versions of same notes. >>>> >>>> It seems to me that the way this might be achievable is to do regular >>>> JSON exports from Roam, and then to import these into TW, overriding >>>> existing Tiddly's with the same name. >>>> >>>> The challenge is as follows: >>>> >>>> - Roam does not allow me to export pages with tag X. So I need a >>>> mechanism to filter which pages get imported into TW as the JSON file >>>> will >>>> be full of pages I dont need. >>>> - The JSON structure is different between Roam and TW, is there a >>>> workflow to edit the JSON structure of the Roam file to make it match >>>> TW? I >>>> suppose a simple search and replace in Notepad++ ? Or is it more >>>> complex >>>> than that? >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm not a programmer, and I'm new to TW, so perhaps there are some >>>> obvious tricks or well known tools/plugins that I'm missing. >>>> >>>> -- 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/01957d40-e192-4e1e-9680-3b290338087fo%40googlegroups.com.
