Hi Jeremy,

IFTTT is new on my radar. Will check it out.

The flow would be

Scholar > gmail > dropbox > TW

will report back....

Alex

On 16 May 2013 00:03, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alex
>
> I think that that is perfectly feasible. It looks like Google Scholar search
> doesn't support RSS feeds, so the best way to go might be to use IFTTT, an
> online service that lets you hook up web services like Gmail and Dropbox.
> This example automatically saves iTunes receipts into Dropbox, which seems
> quite similar to what you want:
>
> https://ifttt.com/recipes/51057
>
> The Dropbox edition of TW5 hasn't had much love for a while, and doesn't
> work right now, but the approach I've been working on is capable of
> automatically tiddlerising new files that appear in a directory.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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>
> On 15 May 2013, at 23:46, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello TW,
>
> Following the wonderful hangout on Monday, my mind finds itself
> wishing for powerful TW5 features.
>
> One of the reasons I 'tiddle' is that the process of 'tiddling' helps
> me think things though. And taking an interest in TW World, following
> the conversation of other TW users -- people I perceive as being on a
> quest to develop their own thinking tool -- has informed the way I
> want to assimilate information and construct my own knowledge base.
>
> I like 'Mario's Model' of knowledge building: Aggregate, Structure,
> Refactor. (Its on his TiddlySpace)
>
> I am aggregating information using a google scholar alert. I get
> digests sent to me. From being in TiddlyLand I realise that User
> Stories are the way to go... here goes..
>
>
> User Story
>
> As an independent researcher ... i would like all the alerts to be
> automatically transformed into tiddlers, each tiddler containing the
> abstract which I then could wikify. I would create tiddlylinks from
> sections of the abstracts i don't understand. After editing I would
> review non-existing links.
>
> In the future, if there were a method more sophisticated than google
> scholar, i would like the standard library catagories associated with
> each citation to be added to the tiddler, in a similar way to tags
>
>
> Prior Art
>
> There is a mathematics TW project where you can download an empty TW
> with all the standard classification codes for the realm of maths. A
> means whereby one could add pre-existing schema (Dublin Core?) to ones
> TW which one could use along with vanilla TW tagging or
> TagglyTagging....
>
> Obviously a huge task, maybe the task is best done in another way, or
> is a futile activity not warranting any further attention.
>
> Alex
>
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>
> Scientific communities as autopoietic systems: The reproductive
> function of citations
>
> E Riviera - Journal of the American Society for Information Science …, 2013
> The increasing employment of bibliometric measures for assessing,
> describing, and
> mapping science inevitably leads to the increasing need for a citation
> theory constituting a
> theoretical frame for both citation analysis and the description of
> citers' behavior. In this ...
>
> [HTML] Focus: Risks of the Intellectual Life Guest Editor: Cinzia
> Ferrini Social Sciences and Humanities Publishing and the Digital
> 'Revolution'
>
> J Kempf
> Abstract This article argues that the digital 'revolution'may turn out
> to be a true revolution for
> humanities and social sciences scholars, but not for the reasons
> usually brought forth in
> academic debates. Digital humanities is a way of returning to the
> intellectual fundamentals ...
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> Tuning the Mind: Connecting Aesthetics to Cognitive Science
>
> R HaCohen, R Katz
> Starting from the late Renaissance, efforts to make vocal music more
> expressive heightened
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