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
>>>>>
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