Lately, I’ve been unsure if I really want to use TiddlyWiki, because no matter how universal single HTML is, it’s still just a big file and it depends on the browser. Since plain text is the most timeless format possible (even a text file written in 1963 can still be viewed and edited today), I thought I would migrate to plain text files. Once I realized how I could convert the tiddlers extracted from HTML to the right format for me, I started looking for a text editor that included both preview and full text search. To my great surprise, the latter is supported by very few programs, so I can only solve it with my own Grep script. After sleepless nights and short circuits of thought, I came to realize that TiddlyWiki can handle separate files. Even if the Node.js TiddlyWiki itself ever ceases to exist, the notes will still be usable because they are just text files, and if I systematically name the tiddlers, the links between them will still be searchable with a simple, software-independent text search, so they remain usable.
The question is, how can TiddlyWiki be used as a simple text editor? I would like to emulate the operation of Boostnote / Joplin / Typora / ... For example, if I install Ansel's Markdown <https://demo.santosa.family#tw5-markdown> plugin and then copy the Markdown files to the tiddlers directory, how can I edit them without adding extra metadata? If I edit ".md" files in Tiddly, then it writes them back to the drive in JSON format. If I change ".md" to ".tid" extension and write "type: x-markdown" at the beginning of the file, it will rewrite the file in its original form after editing, but add e.g. the "title" field with the current path to the file, which I don't want. -- 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/ed46b155-e3e6-44e4-b702-f113147f8d11n%40googlegroups.com.
