Sorry I did not make my point right at the begin. I was wondering if possible to implement a feature/plugin to *attach/store* local files (such as excel files, photoshop files, etc) *under a folder* at the same level as the TiddlyWiki file. Please see "suggestion.png" for the actual logic and details.
I don't mean to embed the local files inside TiddlyWiki file which would create a huge performance impact. On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:26:47 PM UTC-7, PMario wrote: > > 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/4d363080-d43e-4eed-a980-c8189b0e736a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
