Thanks Josiah, Let me add a little more than my first post, I will endeavor to share some screen shots in time.
I hope to build a set of plugins, tips and practices, perhaps an instance of TW5 with appropriate plugins and Browser/OS notes for use on a computer to manage and document local resources. Here are a few more examples *Create a tiddler with the readme text from a command line utility and provide prepared links to execute various command parameter variations eg; sysinternals *Drag and drop the hosts file into the wiki and create a link to launch notepad or other default text editor *Display a link to a file IF Exists *Execute a command line and pipe the output into a tiddler (with Node.JS this seems practical) You mention Background knowledge. Well I can contribute Windows OS knowledge from working with it since before Windows 3.1, I wonder what other diciplins would help. I would love to add android, Unix and MAC features as well. I will look into Bubble Map and Tiddler Map thanks. The Execute from browser is a real issue, just as saving tiddlywikis has being. TiddlyFox - TiddlyWiki for Firefox is a life saver. One approach I have is to create a FireFox Profile called Local which has the desktop permissive plugins including the execute option in the aforementioned "Local File System Links" add-on. I think there may be a way to open external links in another profile and keep the local profile as the only one able to do local execute etc... I would love to see this option built into tiddlyfox, so you could nominate a tiddlywiki for local execute, I think there may be an opportunity to monitor a download folder and have the Local machine respond, but there is a lot to be gained from adding/using file associations in the OS and mime types in the browser. Yes, With office 365 installed, you can get great access to local office applications, with "Local File System Links" add-on I can browse to file://c:/User/Tony/Documents and click on a document to open in the application. I love the "Its all text plugin" as well, and are currently using it off TiddlyWiki Classic for large tiddlers. I will investigate CKEditor HTML editing. Thanks for your feedback Josiah On Sunday, 25 June 2017 04:05:48 UTC+10, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Ciao TonyM > > TonyM wrote: >> >> You could say I want to enable TiddlyWiki to become a "first class >> citizen" when it comes to the Local operating system. >> > > It's interesting as its far to bespoke. Its not so easy to explain as you > can't really demo it since there is, inevitably, local configuration in how > TW & the browser negotiate with the OS that can't be easily replicated. > > Maybe, later you could post *screen shots* of it working, *or a video*? > > I think its a superb use of TW to Desktop Manage, and I'm aware you can go > a long way with it. But it does involve quite a lot of background > knowledge. Its explanation of that background knowledge that, I think, is > needed so others are are able to benefit. > > >> *Some things I would like to do,* >> >> - Include an image of a Graphical map of my network with hotspot >> clicks to go to that device, backed up by device info and settings >> >> Would Mat's nice CSS "Bubble Map" of lists help? *(I can't find it, I'll > write Mat)*. Or Tiddly Map could be adapted to it? Possibly also embedded > Visio diagrams (though I'm not sure Visio lets you create HTML "clickable > maps" any longer)? > > The way that programs get invoked by the OS is an interesting theme. As > browsers are going its getting harder to directly invoke any program. But > the "download" mechanism is pretty universal and a fall-back that the OS > can intercept, so whilst the TW thinks its downloading, the OS can be set > to consider it a call to open a file of that type (at least on desktops). > An issue I had is that the file opened can be a copy in a temp folder, > rather than the original. And the behaviour is not always consistent, for > reasons I do not understand. > > There are some Firefox add-ons that still manage to open Office documents > for edit directly in the browser. > > FWIW, in the Editor in TW I use the Firefox Add-On Its All Text > <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-uS/firefox/addon/its-all-text/>to enable > easier editing for larger texts. Previously there was a Firefox gizmo like > this that could handle many formats. Its gone, a victim of Firefox changes. > Now, basically, external editing can usually only be set to one file type > using that simple (editing area) add-on. But it works. I'd be interested if > you knew of any alternative ways that recognised more than plain text. BJ's > add on that enables CKEditor HTML editing is handy, but in a way its > overkill if you can use a fully external editing solution without any TW > plugin needed. > > Best wishes > Josiah > > > > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/5bbd3fb3-0a0f-4d07-b23c-2f7b9f3dbe2f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
