Hi Tim

I use desktop version, but I imagine you could do the same thing with
node.js?

Dave

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:20 PM, tim O <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
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