Hi Tim Sorry! Must have read that post incorrectly.
Here is a link to the zip file you requested, in my Dropbox. https://www.dropbox.com/s/e91k5crxv7a3sif/z.empty.for.sharing.zip?dl=0 The zip contains the entire folder setup, index file and template files, and has explicit instructions. Dave On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 12:25:30 PM UTC-6, tim O wrote: > > 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. 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