IFTTT integration might be a neat way to manage this kind of thing..
On 31 July 2014 23:36, alex <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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]. >>> 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. > -- Daniel Baird objoke: I had a problem and decided to solve it with threading. 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