Hi Saq,
This is very interesting! Would you please provide a short example! I
created a folder called files with two files one.txt, two.txt with the
below tiddlywiki.files
{
"tiddlers": [
{
"file": "one.txt",
"isTiddlerFile": true,
"fields": {
"type": "text/plain",
"title": "one.txt",
"tags": "xx yy zz"
},
},
{
"file": "two.txt",
"isTiddlerFile": true,
"fields": {
"type": "text/plain",
"title": "two.txt",
"tags": "xx"
}
}
]
}
but after starting the wiki using tiddlywiki --server nothing is loaded
into my tiddlywiki.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 10:40 AM Saq Imtiaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 The patch in that issue is out of date, if you need an up to date patch I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.
>>
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