Zhang.

Please share that solution if possible, it looks great.

Tones

On Friday, 2 July 2021 at 10:22:38 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote:

> @Saq
> > One of the things I would dearly like to know is how many people are 
> actually using Streams on a regular basis, and what their workflow looks 
> like. My feeling is its a very small handful and I'll admit that probably 
> influences how much time I devote to working on Streams.
>
> I've been using streams regularly for a bit over a month, initially as a 
> replacement for RoamResearch.  After awhile I have to say TiddlyWiki 
> combined with Streams is so much more flexible and "sensible" than vanilla 
> RoamResearch.  For example, I was able to implement RoamResearch-style 
> backlinks with Streams' macros:
> [image: backlink.PNG]
> So Just joined the group to say thanks to you for your marvellous work!
>
> On Thursday, 24 June 2021 at 15:59:33 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hi Walt, 
>>
>> Hopefully you will get input from people actually using Streams as to 
>> what works for them.
>>
>> One of the things I would dearly like to know is how many people are 
>> actually using Streams on a regular basis, and what their workflow looks 
>> like. My feeling is its a very small handful and I'll admit that probably 
>> influences how much time I devote to working on Streams.
>>   
>>
>>> 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. 
>>>
>>
>> Have you considered any of the methods outlined here?
>>  https://saqimtiaz.github.io/streams/#Working%20with%20streams%20tiddlers
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> It's a bit more than that. Each node in a stream is a tiddler and can 
>> have any content. Streams was originally envisioned not just for rapid note 
>> taking but also for the ability to divide your text into smaller tiddlers 
>> as you write/edit. As such it is difficult to envisage a single export 
>> format that would work for everyone's content.  However using the 
>> approaches outlined in the link above you can easily set up your own 
>> markdown export.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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.  
>>>
>>
>> The issue is that MD tiddlers will always be second class citizens in 
>> TiddlyWiki. I think in the long run this isn't going to be a feasible 
>> approach unless all you want to do is write your notes and export them 
>> outside of TiddlyWiki. Also note that while MD syntax does support 
>> multiline content in lists, TW markup does not ( at least not cleanly).
>>
>> As an aside, I think something like this unfulfilled experiment would 
>> suit your use case from what I know of it:
>> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/drA7IEx2Ng0/m/67pyPkgKBgAJ
>> Before you ask, no plans to take that any further, in part due to the 
>> reasons outlined above.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Saq
>>
>>

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