Another approach to step #2 in Tobias' suggestion is to use TiddlyClip with local snips. This allows you to fairly quickly add images on your file system (which you browse in your browser, not your file explorer) in a universal manner that uses the existing _canonical_uri mechanism. If you work at it, you can set up to have tiddlyclip tag your files at the same time.
The problem with the _canonical_uri mechanism, IMHO, is that you can't add notes to the text field where any notes would naturally go. So if you want to associate notes to the image you will need to add additional fields.It seems to me that there is no real reason that the text field couldn't be made available and visible, appearing below where the image goes. Yet another approach I use in a TW dedicated to managing receipts, is to use an entry form for creating entries. In the entry form, I set the year of the receipt and copy just the file name into an image field. The tiddler that is created has a special viewing template set up (similar to canononical uri) but the user can type into the text field. I can see doing something like this, creating a custom "New" button and form that deals just with images similar to canonical uri, but you can add annotations and search text to the text field. A drop-down menu would let you select which of several path sources you want to use. I've thought of another approach, but haven't actually set it up. What you would do is capture your images with paste into a single-function TW running on node.js. Then run the externalizing processes outlined at TiddlyWiki.com and convert the captured images to external images. Use drag and drop to move the resulting image tiddlers into your working TW. Overall, It would be nice if there were better mechanisms for wrangling images in TW. In particular, it would be great if you drag and drop images from the file system and have an external tiddler created, or if copying and pasting were to make a local image. Or, like with Eric's TWC plugins, TW would know to check several different paths for images. Mark On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 6:27:55 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > I'm a recent discoverer of TW5, and everything about it is magical. But > this one hang up is approaching a deal breaker in my application. > > I require taking screen shots of various things to include along the notes > very frequently. Being used to OneNote, I grew to take the rapid fire > ability to call up the snippet tool and pasting screenshots for granted. > > In TW5, this what I have tried so far > > > - The long route: taking a screen shot to clipboard --> using a > clipboard auto-save utility to automatically save it to a set location --> > importing the screenshots to TW5 --> the including the image with the > syntax. This may not be so bad if I had just a few images here or there I > wanted to document as part the notes, but it is not uncommon for me to > take > 10-30 screenshot in a given hour. You can imagine it quickly grinds the > whole process to a halt > - The alternative route: installed CKEditor with VisualEditor plugin. > It enables direct image pasting. The downside is that I can't use Wiki > syntax anymore. > > Either compromise is very undesirable. > > > Any suggestions on what else I may try to get around the issue? > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fa57aa47-9b21-4c91-be58-a4c0c548c669%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
