Hey, dragging from there does work with FiledropPlugin! Eric, if you're listening (lighting up the bat signal), would it be possible to specify listing filenames by "date modified" and limiting it to a specified number of files (for those of us who keep all our text files in one ginormous folder)?
Thanks On Nov 9, 12:04 pm, Dave Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that Mans, but I'm pretty sure that just allows you to > browse a directory from TW. What I was talking about would be the > following scenario: > > I am out on the road somewhere. I have an idea! I write it down in > the form of a text file on my phone and somewhere in the text file I > use something that signifies a tag to be used in TW. I get to the > office where I connect the phone to the computer. A RealtimeSync > folder watching program sees that there's a new file in folder "A" and > it automatically puts a copy in folder "B". I open my TW and look at > the timeline, (or better yet, I look at the tag I indicated in the > text file), and there is a tiddler with the contents of the text file > that I wrote on my phone, that I can open and edit in my TW. > > Basically I'm super lazy and don't want to be bothered with going to > the folder, looking for any new files and dragging them into the TW > manually. > > I am curious now though if you use that ShowLocalDirectory if you > could drag a file from there into the TW. That at least would be a > step less than having to go open the directory in nautilus or windows > explorer... You could have it set up in DefaultTiddlers. I'll try it > out. > > Thanks again, > Dave > > On Nov 9, 2:54 am, Måns <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Dave > > > > P.S. I've often dreamed of a plugin that would just monitor a certain > > > folder for changes and automatically include any new ones that show up > > > without having to "go get them" manually, > > > Erics ShowLocalFolderPlugin does > > that:http://tiddlytools.com/#ShowLocalDirectory > > You need to use it locally - and I'm not sure if Google Chrome accepts > > local browsing... > > > Cheers Måns Mårtensson > > > > > I've used ArchivePlugin to store tiddlers as text files. All you > > > > have to do is find in the plugin where it writes the filename and > > > > change "html" to "txt". Then, for text files you already have you'd > > > > need FileDropPlugin. You should be able to find them by searching > > > > this group, or at tiddlyvault.tiddlyspot.com. > > > > > Tags would be stored in the TW only, not in the text files themselves. > > > > > Hope that helps > > > > > On Nov 8, 11:24 am, Yakov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I'll join the question. My reason of interest is the fact that > > > > > a) Java is somewhat that is not "easy and clear" to install on a > > > > > handheld and > > > > > b) it is very usefull when some previously written files (.txt in > > > > > handheld) can be joined together and organized as hypertext within TW. > > > > > > On 8 ноя, 06:41, Shiyin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello. I've been considering using DokuWiki rather than TiddlyWiki > > > > > > because it saves pages as plain text files, which enables me to use > > > > > > them in other apps for various purposes, without the need to import > > > > > > & > > > > > > export (or automating the import & export). I suspect it may be > > > > > > possible in TW using plugins however, and I'd rather not have to > > > > > > abandon TW for the job. > > > > > > > I would like to be able to open a plain text file in TW as a tiddler > > > > > > (with tags stored somewhere in the text file, recognised in TW as > > > > > > tags), edit the tiddler &/or tags, list titles of all such external > > > > > > *.txt files with ForEachTiddlerPlugin / other, and save these > > > > > > changes > > > > > > to the original *.txt file (or replace the original *.txt file with > > > > > > its edited version). > > > > > > > Is this possible? If not, what's the closest thing to doing this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
