Hi Saq, I see the PR #2906 <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2906> has been merged into the core! Great feature I appreciate your efforts.
Is it possible to add some explanation / short document in tw5.com so people can find and use this feature later on! Thank you --Atro On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 10:40:17 AM UTC+3:30 [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 The patch in that issue is out of date, if you need an up to date patch I 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. >> > -- 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/5eb3ec6c-3f50-45c2-bf55-7640c7e68dc2n%40googlegroups.com.
