Hi, TiddlyWiki allows you to embed files. eg: small images and even small PDFs. ... If you just want to embed _some_ files it may be OK. See reasoning below.
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 8:34:03 PM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > > *Motivation* > > - Research / Analysis often involves not only notes taking, but also > capturing relevant files of any source (such as excel files, photoshop > files, etc) > > Excel and Photoshop, especially Photoshop files tend to be huge, if you embed them into TW. TiddlyWiki is an HTML file. HTML is text. So you can't attach a binary file into an HTML file. It needs to be converted into a text based format. This format is called base64. TW does exactly that. The down side is, that it increases the file size. eg: a 500kByte jpg image will need ~800kByte embedded. Which is about 60% more. ... So storing many big binary files in TW is not recommended. You will _not_ be happy. HTML files are not designed for that. What you can do, is store links to the files in your TW. So you have the meta data in TW, but let the files rest on the file system. > - These files will be forgotten after awhile, because: > - there is no notes to describe what they are > - they end up scattered around in different folders/directories > - For any useful notebook, the ability to keep both notes and files > next to each other is highly beneficial > > Yes. but keep them separate. If you need to store them, within one file. Create a zip file, which can be handled on the OS level. Compression formats have been designed for this task. > > - In contrast, TiddlyWiki as a notebook software does not seems to > allow attaching files > > It is possible and makes sense for some small files. As I wrote. HTML is not ZIP ... in the contrary. At the moment TW recognises and hand full of file types. see: https://github.com/pmario/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/boot/boot.js#L1771 To save them back we use the browser right click: "Save as" button. FireFox has an built in viewer, that also lets you save PDFs for example. So depending on the file type, handling may or may not be convenient. ... So, good idea, but wrong tool if you have many huge files. -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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/b2e8dbcd-42f6-483d-b8a8-7fd5c7b364d3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
