Ciao Mark *It is an interesting issue*. Given the intelligence of TW macro-ology you'd have thought it would have been a doddle.
I guess a major issue is that BROWSERS insist on serious constraints on file-handling? That constrain us to cumbersome sub-functions? Though Node is freer of them, there is a kind of bedrock architecture it shares with Cousin Single File. Just a comment TT On Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 05:06:13 UTC+1 Mark S. wrote: > I assume we need the accompanying > *NodeJSExternalFiles plugin* if we want to externalize > the image automatically? > > When I tried it without the plugin, it inserted the image as advertised, > but of course made a regular TW image tiddler. > > When I tried it with the plugin installed, it created the image file in > the files directory but did not create any image tiddler (especially not > the _canonical_uri that I might have been expecting). The link it created > still expected an image TIddler and needed to be hand-adjusted to include > the files/ path. I guess if it were to be tweaked it should be tweaked so > that the file path in the inserted link includes *files/* in the path > name. That would make it close to a complete solution. > > When compared to something like Evernote, there's still the additional > step you need of first downloading images to your hard drive before > importing them back into your TW file. > > Thanks! > > On Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 6:57:38 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> This quick demo that I posted a while back might be of interest: >> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/ueeaCHA7hI0/m/2Ujwl1TABAAJ >> >> If you run TiddlyWiki on node.js, the image can be externalised at the >> same time as it's pasted and imported as well. >> >> On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 9:06:14 AM UTC+1 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I wonder if there is some way (plugin?) that would allow to paste images >>> in tiddlers directly. Right now, I'm using the import feature but that's >>> too much friction (unselect current tiddler, paste, import, edit name, copy >>> name, type [img[<name>]). >>> >>> Is there any shorter way? What do you do with your tiddlywikis? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> -- 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/e04730cd-47cf-4d1e-af2d-5b3899e68cb1n%40googlegroups.com.
