Mark, I had considered in the past allowing images to be imported into tiddlers but providing a mechanism to export them to \images leaving behind the _canonical_uri contents, if done with a batch process even easier. On a node server it may be more complex.
Regards Tony On Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 6:04:40 AM UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: > > You omitted that you also have to save an image file to .\images and copy > the name. > > It's a lot of steps, especially compared with other products like > Evernote. Dragging and dropping the images, would be the most > straight-forward approach, and, if I understand correctly, should be > feasible with the changes coming in 5.1.20. You could even use a TW on node > to collect the data, and then use Bob or the tools in TW to extract and > externalize the data when you have more time. But of course, you would have > to be running node/Bob at least once in awhile. > > The problem with external files is that it becomes messy the minute you > want to organize anything. For instance, if you want to move all of 2019's > files to images/2019, you'll have to find some way to find the > corresponding tiddlers and then rename the _canonical_uri contents. Another > problem with the _canonical_uri approach is that the path can not be easily > redirected. So, for instance, you might want \images on your desktop > machine, but a path that leads to a google drive folder on a mobile device. > The workaround is to present all your external images through a macro, > where the base path can be changed as needed. But wouldn't it be great if a > base-path were already built in? > > > > On Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 12:37:57 PM UTC-7, PMario wrote: >> >> Hi Kelli, >> >> Welcome to the club! >> >> The easiest way is, to store your wiki.html file in a directory and your >> images in an eg: \images subfolder. >> >> If you want to use them in TW just >> >> - create a new tiddler. eg: test.jpg >> - create a field named: _canonical_uri >> - with the value: .\images\test.jpg >> - set the type field to: image/jpeg >> - save - done >> >> Images stored in this way can accessed directly from the browser, without >> any server, as long as the file is accessed from a local PC. >> >> have fun! >> mario >> >> PS: We should definitely create a "_canonical" .. drop area for external >> files, for the lazy folk, like me ;) >> >> >> -- 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/29994157-f258-465d-8a37-9e52e6ccbd35%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
