Picking up where this earlier thread <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/vlAZ_K4K63o> left off, i am following Saq's advice <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/vlAZ_K4K63o/m/9lO63cZEAQAJ> to start another conversation on the more specific question of HOW best to use -and perhaps adapt- the Streams plugin, to make TW into a great tool for not only "intertwingly" NoteTaking (which it certainly is), but also great for agile NoteTaking, as defined in aforementioned thread.
Having just installed the plugin (Streams 0.2.18) in my TiddlyDesktop instance, i am already fairly drunk on the power of having what feels like a full-fledged outliner *within* a tiddler, where i can bang out a stream of bullet points, promote & demote, indent & outdent, etc... All as fast as i can type the keystrokes, or drag&drop on mobile. But then: the result is a slew of tiddlers with long numeric IDs that, tho nicely presented in the edit window as a clean hierarchal outline, cannot be either flattened into a single tiddler, nor exported or even copy/pasted into the tiddler body via any built-in affordance. I've been going the copy/paste way so far, but it's a hard road to travel, given any significant length and/or complexity to your outline. Now: plugin author Saq said essentially <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/vlAZ_K4K63o/m/9lO63cZEAQAJ> that the only reason he hasn't built in any such affordance is that he doesn't know what users want: a simple concatenation of the stream? a hierarchial structure in some form? For me, the best (and simplest?) solution would be to convert the stream to Markdown: each node being just a line of text preceded by a number of asterisks (1->any) to reflect its level in the hierarchy. This could be interpreted & displayed correctly in any tiddler that is formatted Markdown; TW has affordances for this -as does Github (.md is default format of ReadMe files there) and most web publishing & word processing apps you can find these days. Indeed, Saq indicated <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/vlAZ_K4K63o/m/BF2bQzugAAAJ> that a .md<->.tid converter would be no big deal (for him, at least :-) to create; this would enable not only "flattening" of a Stream in such manner, but also importing a .md file as presentable tiddler content. Now THAT would be cool, IMHO... But that's just me, so far. SO this is to ask all of you with any experience of Streams plugin: Can you relate to the need i am expressing? Or have you found a good way "flatten" your streams, and integrate your Streams content properly into a TW instance? If so, anything you might care to share in terms of workflow and/or code would be most appreciated. NB: I did learn in the course of that earlier thread about this Streams-to-text solution <https://szen.io/stream/> (thanks @Si for the pointer), but Saq warned <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/vlAZ_K4K63o/m/yXLAGwBIAQAJ> that the plugin (actually a microAddOn/Mod, according to author Jan) is not compatible with current version of Streams as it stands, though he believes that Jan is working on it. So i'm holding off on installing that for now, but would love to hear any news or user reports about that. /walt -- 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/2485302e-c5a4-4b3d-a9d8-46a367a2c65cn%40googlegroups.com.
