Thanks AlexHough its interesting ... the cross connections thing.
I will play with this a bit to try make it work for me. But TBH I still just want to click a button to pass a Tiddler to Gmail to help me serve a mailing list with minimum steps.. Josiah On Thursday, 26 May 2016 00:21:01 UTC+2, AlexHough wrote: > > I cut and paste into Gmail from the preview window ro tiddler in view > template > > In the latter method, when I set "links as titles" in tw, and I copy and > paste into gmail, the tile links can then open a TiddlyWiki permalink... I > discovered it by accident, I took some notes at a meeting and sent them > via gmail as minutes. > > It offers to me that if the recipients had an identical file structure, > and the TiddlyWiki was run from node with tiddlers I a Dropbox then the > recipient would be able to click on the link and view the message in the > context of the wiki. > > I like the idea of hypertext minutes and the "meeting of two people" > being the next step in the evolution of TiddlyWiki for personal non linear > note taking non linear notes for sharing. I like the idea of gmail and > TiddlyWiki shared between two people, the back and forth ping pong > communication has merits; Web 2.0 offered improvements, but ther simplicity > of back and forth comm u cation has its merits. > > Alex > > On Wednesday, 25 May 2016, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mark S. >> >> Thanks for the tips. >> >> Josiah >> >> On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 18:40:18 UTC+2, Mark S. wrote: >>> >>> In Firefox, to access the HTML version of your code, select your text >>> and then right click and select View Selection Source. In the window that >>> pops up, your HTML text is already selected. Copy that. >>> >>> Now how to send it from Gmail? This is a problem with Gmail, not TW. But >>> someone has worked out a neat solution using Google Docs/Drive. Read it >>> about it here: >>> >>> http://www.labnol.org/internet/send-html-email/19672/ >>> >>> Once you have installed the spreadsheet in Google Drive you will be >>> able to open a form that lets you paste in your HTML code and send it. >>> >>> Not a one-click solution, but better than doing all that formatting by >>> hand. >>> >>> Another solution, if you have a desktop client like Thunderbird hooked >>> into your Gmail, is to just send from that client. Thunderbird has an >>> option to insert html. >>> >>> Good luck, >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 2:55:49 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>> use case: I use TW5 to maintain data for a regular GMAIL mailing of >>>> items I select. >>>> >>>> currently: I have to copy and paste to GMAIL & then redo the styling >>>> manually. This is cumbersome. >>>> >>>> wanted: Ability to (1) Click a button on a tiddler to PASS its text to >>>> GMAIL. (2) Pass also the STYLING of the tiddler. >>>> >>>> QUESTION: has anyone made steps in this direction? >>>> >>>> comment: IF the networking possibilities of TW5 were stronger & more >>>> upfront I am sure it would get more widely known. >>>> >>>> -- >> >> On Thursday, 26 May 2016 00:21:01 UTC+2, AlexHough wrote: > > I cut and paste into Gmail from the preview window ro tiddler in view > template > > In the latter method, when I set "links as titles" in tw, and I copy and > paste into gmail, the tile links can then open a TiddlyWiki permalink... I > discovered it by accident, I took some notes at a meeting and sent them > via gmail as minutes. > > It offers to me that if the recipients had an identical file structure, > and the TiddlyWiki was run from node with tiddlers I a Dropbox then the > recipient would be able to click on the link and view the message in the > context of the wiki. > > I like the idea of hypertext minutes and the "meeting of two people" > being the next step in the evolution of TiddlyWiki for personal non linear > note taking non linear notes for sharing. I like the idea of gmail and > TiddlyWiki shared between two people, the back and forth ping pong > communication has merits; Web 2.0 offered improvements, but ther simplicity > of back and forth comm u cation has its merits. > > Alex > > On Wednesday, 25 May 2016, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Mark S. >> >> Thanks for the tips. >> >> Josiah >> >> On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 18:40:18 UTC+2, Mark S. wrote: >>> >>> In Firefox, to access the HTML version of your code, select your text >>> and then right click and select View Selection Source. In the window that >>> pops up, your HTML text is already selected. Copy that. >>> >>> Now how to send it from Gmail? This is a problem with Gmail, not TW. But >>> someone has worked out a neat solution using Google Docs/Drive. Read it >>> about it here: >>> >>> http://www.labnol.org/internet/send-html-email/19672/ >>> >>> Once you have installed the spreadsheet in Google Drive you will be >>> able to open a form that lets you paste in your HTML code and send it. >>> >>> Not a one-click solution, but better than doing all that formatting by >>> hand. >>> >>> Another solution, if you have a desktop client like Thunderbird hooked >>> into your Gmail, is to just send from that client. Thunderbird has an >>> option to insert html. >>> >>> Good luck, >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 2:55:49 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>> use case: I use TW5 to maintain data for a regular GMAIL mailing of >>>> items I select. >>>> >>>> currently: I have to copy and paste to GMAIL & then redo the styling >>>> manually. This is cumbersome. >>>> >>>> wanted: Ability to (1) Click a button on a tiddler to PASS its text to >>>> GMAIL. (2) Pass also the STYLING of the tiddler. >>>> >>>> QUESTION: has anyone made steps in this direction? >>>> >>>> comment: IF the networking possibilities of TW5 were stronger & more >>>> upfront I am sure it would get more widely known. >>>> >>>> >> -- 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/a9c6e2d6-d5c6-485f-a505-aab4f1d283b3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
