Hi all Scot Simmons asked in another thread about using TW as a OneNote, and particularly about attaching or viewing pdfs.
I didn't want to derail his thread with this. It doesn't address his pdf question. But it is an experiment I am trying, and I thought: either it will help Scot in some way to use TW as OneNote a little more, or you guys will give me feedback to make this even better, or both. I will tell you what I am trying now in order to unify all my notes, images, etc. 1. I have a folder called perfect.system (named it that in hopes that it might become that for me, after so many other schemes that don't work for me). Inside that folder I have a central hub TW5 called "perfect.index" and five subfolders: a for articles (stuff I write), s for sources (pdfs, Word docs, etc), imgs for image files, 'reading' for TW5s I will create, one for each book I read, to take notes on that book, and 'projects' (for new, unpolished writing or notetaking projects not based on reading but on a topic). 2. In each of the subfolders I have a template specifically for creating that kind of TW (reading template for reading TWs, etc). 3. In each of these template TWs I have a viewtemplate field that shows up in each tiddler contains the relative filepath link to the perfect.index, so from any tiddler in any TW in those folders I can move up with one click to the perfect.index Example: "Back to [ext[Perfect.Index|../perfect.index.html]]" 3. When I create new articles, projects or reading notes in those subfolder TWs, I grab the permalink of the new tiddler I create, and then I go to the perfect.index TW and paste the relevant part of the link there and turn it into a prettylink. Example: [ext[Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From, on innovation|./reading/where.good.ideas.come.from.html#On%20innovation]] 4. I am in the process of moving my current folders of images and my current folders of documents into subfolders of "imgs" and "s" (sources) respectively. As I do, I add relative filepath links to those folders (not to each image or doc) in the perfect.index. Examples: a. *[ext[Birger Sandzen, folder of images|./imgs/birger.sandzen/]] b. *[ext[Spanish vocab sources|./s/spanish.vocab.s/]] 5. So in short, my perfect.index TW has links to FOLDERS of my current docs/pdfs/old TWs, links to FOLDERS of imgs by topic, and has links to TIDDLERS of any new article or reading summary or project I create. Those tiddlers in the subfolders may contain relative links to actual images in the imgs subfolders: [img[../imgs/tree.diagrams/vertical.tree.png]] I doubt I would view pdfs through those tiddlers, but I could if I wanted to. I don't use node.js for any of this, just regular files, but I imagine you could use node.js to do the same thing. Here is a link to the perfect.index in an early stage that I uploaded to my website on Friday to see how it would look and function, but I plan to remove it eventually, for copyright concerns re the images. http://giffmex.org/perfect.system/perfect.index.html. a. Go to tags, select tech, select Data visualizations, and edit to see what the links look like, then click on d3 visualizations.... Note the image accessed from there and edit to see how the links were done. When done, click the "Back to perfect.index" to go back. Ignore the home button, which I later removed. b. Go to tags, select visual, select Comic art, and click on the P. Craig Russell link. It will open the folder list of images there. I am using Launchy for Firefox to right-click and open it in Windows explorer so I can see the images themselves. Works in my hard drive, but not online. Sorry for the long description. But I hope this helps Scot or anyone else get ideas as to how TW might be used more simply to create a knowledgebase that could become way too big for one TW file, yet easy to add to and easy to navigate back and forth. I am in the experimental stage but this is working really well for me. Dave -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ed0a99ac-d114-4fe2-b635-12e1274594be%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
