Hello All, I'm a fairly new TW user with a (outdated) programming background. I've also recently become a Mac user. I've used TW w/ Dropbox for a few weeks now and absolutely love it. It's as close to my "dream PIM" as I have yet found. But I want to do more. Now that I've used Macs for a little while too, I want to use Automator and Applescript to do some automation of TW, particularly interacting/controlling TW through eMail (essentially, automatic filing and retrieval tasks with my TW that are now manual). I'm not really sure where to start, however. I'd really appreciate any advice! To help explain the kinds of things I would like to do, I'll give a simple example that, by itself, wouldn't need this kind of automation; it should, however, give a really good flavor of other things I want to do.
Say I'm reading a book and come across a word I don't know. I'm not near my computer, but have my phone with eMail capability. I have my iMac up and running 24/7 at home and it processes my eMails. Suppose I create an eMail with the word I want to know the definition of in the body of the eMail. In the subject I put some sort of code I've worked out ahead of time; say, "[/def?]" or whatever. I have an automator script on my iMac that will see the eMail come in and can check the subject. If it finds [/def?], it can strip out the word in the body of the eMail, automatically look it up, and send an eMail back to me with the definition of the word! Pretty cool (though not very practical). Here's the TW part: suppose I want keep a record of all the words I don't know to study later (not likely :-)). So when the Automator script does its thing, the last action it takes could be to launch an AppleScript which then inserts a new Tiddler into my TW with the word as the Tiddler name, the definition as the Tiddler text; maybe some tags to show where it came from, whatever. My problem is I don't know how to get AppleScript to "do anything" to TW. My programming days occurred in the Windows world, before the Web, so I don't know if I'm even approaching this the right way. Maybe I need to call a JavaScript program somehow so it can access built in TW functions? Or is there an API? Or should I have TW up an running and somehow activate a tiddler or macro or something through the browser? As you can see, I'm pretty ignorant and a newbie with all this. If anyone has any suggestions on how I should do this, including going about it in an entirely different way, I would be very grateful. I searched many times before posting, but couldn't find what I needed (or didn't recognize it). If there is a way to do this, I hope to create a simple keyword system whereby I can send eMails or SMS messages to my iMac/TW to automate all sorts of things. One could be browsing and simply send the page or link by eMail, add a tag or two, and the page will be filed as you want in your TW. Once could see a lot of uses, I think! Thanks much in advance! ssBibliophile (aka Scott) P.S. - thanks too, for all the help this community has provided that I've already availed myself of! TW is really a great thing. -- 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.
