Jeremy, if you are still watching this thread: I have an idea that would solve si's problem and one of mine: wanting to have new tiddlers created by hyperlinking in tiddlers to have certain fields and data.
Solution: in the control panel > info there could be a tab with a mechanism to create fields that will be generated for all new tiddlers, however they are created (hyperlinking, using the new tiddler button, using new here buttons). It could look just like the 'Add a new field' in tiddler edit mode. Most users would not use it. Some might have data they want on all tiddlers. Users like me would use it for specific tasks for a while, then change it as needed, depending on what we were working on. si's usecase might also help in bookmarking: paste from the web, from ebooks, etc, and fill in the relevant fields. Or, while reading from a specific source, have the bibliographic data filled in in one field, and in another blank field add the page #. my usecase is that on certain files I would like to have new tiddlers have certain fields, but that means I can't use "create a wikilink + open the link" to create them, I have to create and use a custom new button. Having a control panel to alter what new tiddlers will have when I create them would be a huge plus. Something to think about, but I think this would alleviate the need to create custom buttons for new tiddlers with extra criteria - something a lot of users don't know how to do, and involves several steps, including the step of deciding on an icon, in order to distinguish the button from the standard new tiddler button. OK, I will throw in another idea to boot: this would be huge: imagine that the control panel tab I am talking about had a specific tag. That way, users could have a number of custom "new tiddler fields" tiddlers, and apply the tag to the one they want to work on at the moment. So say I am taking notes on reading. I tag $:/tags/NewTiddlerFields on a tiddler $:/.giffmex/newfields/readingnotes. This has fields for bibliographic data, page #, etc. I change the bibliographic data when I start a new book, and start plugging away. Then later I want to add images for a while. I untag the previous tiddler and apply the tag to $:/giffmex/newfields/images, which has [img[]] built into the text field and maybe other data. Then I can untag it and use TiddlyWiki normally. It would be relatively easy to create a sidebar tab that has a mechanism to choose between custom 'new tiddler fields' tiddlers - reading, images, recipes, contacts, tasks, etc., and links to those system tiddlers in order to edit them. So, back to si's usecase, with this set up, si could choose ahead of time the tags and fields he wants for new tiddlers, and then paste his content and have the tiddler generated with those tags and fields already loaded. In a nutshell, my idea is to move the "Title for new tiddlers" and "Tags for new tiddlers" from the "basic" tab to a new tab in the control panel, and add a "fields for new tiddlers" section, and make this tiddler only work when tagged "$:/tags/NewTiddlerConfiguration" or something like that, so that the user could conceivably switch between various tiddlers with differing configurations as needed. Okay, enough bursts of creativity for this morning. I have to prepare for class. I hope it inspires someone with more technical knowledge than I have to make TiddlyWiki even more useful in this way. On Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 5:08:24 AM UTC-6 si wrote: > Hi Jeremy thanks for the response. I was specifically hoping to be able to > do it with something like $action-createtiddler so that I could > auto-populate the new tiddler with whatever fields and tags I need. > > My specific use case is that when I'm reading a PDF I usually create a > tiddler to represent the book. All my book tiddlers have a button for > creating a tiddler to store quotes from the book, tagged with the book + > metadata fields. Currently I just copy the text in manually, which is fine, > I just wondered if there was a way I could speed up this process and have > it all happen with one button press. > > On Tuesday, 10 November 2020 07:33:51 UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > >> On a device with a keyboard you can click on TiddlyWiki's page background >> and then use the keyboard shortcut for "paste". The $:/Import dialogue >> should open with the pasted item as a tiddler. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> [email protected] >> https://jermolene.com >> >> On 9 Nov 2020, at 21:17, si <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Say you have copied a paragraph of text and it is stored in your >> clipboard. >> >> Is there a way to create a button in TiddlyWiki that will create a new >> tiddler whose "text" field is populated with whatever was stored in your >> clipboard? >> >> I'm not expecting the answer to be yes but I thought I'd ask just in >> case. 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