You can get .txt files into your Dropbox, Jeremy are you saying that node.js could convert them into .tid files?
Ale On Saturday, 21 June 2014, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David > > Email integration is definitely a goal for TW; there are lots of > interesting applications and users that aren't really accessible without > it. But it'll be a while before such features are in the core. In the > meantime, you might find it interesting to experiment with IFTTT: > > https://ifttt.com > > IFTTT is a tremendously flexible tool, and amongst other things lets you > trap emails in GMail and save them as files in Dropbox. That might be the > start of a workflow involving the Node.js edition of TW. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 3:17 PM, PMario <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> On Saturday, June 21, 2014 3:49:04 PM UTC+2, david... wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to ease that transition by allowing them the ability to >>> contribute tiddlers by email. >>> >> >> I don't know of any tw project, that works that way. But a long time ago, >> I think Jeremy mentioned the idea, that TW should be able to use an IMAP >> store as a TW backend store. ... So dealing with tiddlers would be >> transparently maped to manipulating emails. ... The idea is very >> interesting. >> >> >>> I've already seen how easy it is to write a .tid file. Is there some >>> way I could have tiddlers added by email? If the tiddler title is the email >>> subject, the tiddler author is the sender, and tags and other metadata are >>> read from the email content and added? >>> >> >> If you have a pop3 or imap client software, that is able to parse an >> email content and extract the need text, imo it will be possible. >> If you work with a unix system, i think there are several command line >> tools, that would be possible. >> >> I also found a nice javascript library http://emailjs.org/ that could be >> used to extract the email content. To include it into TW, it would be >> needed to write a tw nodejs plugin. ... >> >> .... The biggest problem I see is security. Everyone that knows the email >> address can basically send executable code to a TW build system, that >> doesn't sanitize the content. .... and you have to deal with the "spam" >> problem. >> >> >> -mario >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWikiDev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tiddlywikidev%[email protected]');> >> . >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tiddlywikidev%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
