Hi, David. Scot actually replied to my thread. Thanks for these useful tips. Any chance I can download this project as a zip to study?
Thanks Cheers On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 10:14:52 PM UTC-8, David Gifford wrote: > > 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/08b12a5f-8d53-499d-9438-3488c46d6c84%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
