Thanks David. I will need to play with this. Do you use node.js or the destop verrsion; or does it matter?
On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 12:38:38 PM UTC-8, David Gifford wrote: > > 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. Please let me know if the link doesn't allow > you to download. > > 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]. 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