Hi Jeremy, There are a few use cases I have in mind. 1) Google Scholar Alerts get delivered to my gmail accout. I would like them to find them automatically added to my TW. That way I could use the alert text to start linking and building my text. 2) gmail is where I do most of my writing - some of my emails could be first drafts of an more reusable piece of writing (more use than the primary intended recipient.) I like "writing to a person", it brings focus to my writing and email is all about this. I'd like to send a copy to my TW so that I can integrate the thoughts emerging from email into a TW. A new context, with additional features, would stimulate creativity. 2.1) I'm used to the interface - i write plain text and don't format 2.2) I like the 'save in background feature' 3) Processing long email threads from mailing lists: sometimes things get too complex for email. I'd like to edit a thread, pull out themes, make the ever increasing amounts of text into something readable and joyous: TW!
best wishes Alex On Sunday, 6 July 2014 15:52:31 UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Alex > > You can get .txt files into your Dropbox, Jeremy are you saying that >> node.js could convert them into .tid files? > > > Yes. You'd either have to massage the .txt files into .tid files as > described at http://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlerFiles, or you could use a > companion .meta file to specify the remaining fields. > > Getting things running smoothly would probably require some changes to TW. > What do you have in mind? > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > >> >> Ale >> >> >> On Saturday, 21 June 2014, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> 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]> 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]. >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jeremy Ruston >>> mailto:[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]. >>> 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. >>> >> -- >> 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:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> 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:> > -- 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.
