Hi Bimlas, I am unfamiliar with Boostnote etc, however I do use TiddlyWiki as a tool to work with plain text files for similar reasons.
I load a folder of plain text files using a tiddlywiki.files file. This allows me to load them without the need for inline metadata or an external .meta file. https://tiddlywiki.com/#tiddlywiki.files%20Files I then have a path defined in $:/config/FileSystemPaths to save these tiddlers back to their original location on editing. https://tiddlywiki.com/#Customising%20Tiddler%20File%20Naming Note however that TiddlyWiki does not allow you to save back to the original location for files loaded via tiddlywiki.files so this requires a patch. I have been using such a patch for over 3 years now with no issues. Some details here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2906 The patch in that issue is out of date, if you need an up to date patch I can provide one for you. In fact I should probably make a PR with the updated patch as I think it addresses some of the concerns raised in that ticket. When you now edit a tiddler that has been loaded via tiddlywiki.files, it saves back to the original location plus a .meta file is created for that tiddler. If all your data is in the body of the tiddler, then you can simply ignore these .meta files. Lastly, when creating a new tiddler, to make sure it is saved as .txt make sure to use type text/plain. After creation the type can be changed and the tiddler will still be saved as .txt. Note that this is actually somewhat of a bug but effort is being made to address it while still allowing the user to determine what format a tiddler should be saved in. For details see https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/4630 Hope this helps, Saq On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 8:40:02 AM UTC+2, bimlas wrote: > > 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/a3e559a8-0c81-4540-a2da-b22c283b7845o%40googlegroups.com.
