Catching Ideas....how to start?

[skye riquelme]

Hi All

Guess like most people, I often have brilliant ideas....well ideas at
least....in the middle of doing something else...and have that
conflict between needing to concentrate on what I am doing.....or stop
and record the idea.....

.....since I live a reasonable part of my life in Firefox (thats a
strange concept) I am wondering if it would be possible to build a
bookmarklet....that works a bit like TiddlySnip...only instead of
grabbing current page details...it simply opens a window that alllows
me to write my idea (simple text) and the saves it to a TW in my
computador....for later processing....

....ok course I could just have a TW loaded with Erics QuickNote
plugin..open at all times.........

.... but a bookmarklet in Firefox would be much more fun.....

AND I have no idea at all about how to go about building a bookmarklet
to do this....any hints/leads/bits of code would be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance
Skye

[whatever]

Hi!
Actually, TiddlySnip pretty much does that. :) You just right-click
and select "TiddlySnip this Page", and then you just replace the text
and title with your idea.
w

[Chris Dent]

On Friday, March 2, 2012 4:18:33 PM UTC, skye riquelme wrote:

Guess like most people, I often have brilliant ideas....well ideas at
least....in the middle of doing something else...and have that
conflict between needing to concentrate on what I am doing.....or stop
and record the idea.....

I recognize that this is not really a direct answer to your question but I thought I should mention that the use case you describe here is pretty much exactly the same as one of the use cases that TiddlySpace hopes to solve[1]: capturing, refining and synthesizing ideas, on the fly, as you have them. We captured that in the second manifesto: http://manifesto2.tiddlyspace.com/ [2]

In particular, the takenote editor is designed so that it can create tiddlers that eventually show up in your tiddlyspace, even when not connected to the network, from multiple devices, particularly smartphones. If you're always on the same device, always with access to your TiddlyWiki, then this doesn't matter and I reckon TiddlySnip, as @whatever suggests, may be right for you, or straightforward to adapt.

I, however, use multiple devices and need my tiddlers on the network and accessible in multiple contexts, so TiddlySpace works out quite nicely.

Ben Gillies work on bookmarks and reply functionality in TiddlySpace provide another vector for getting content into TiddlySpace which may provide some ideas you can borrow for your task (with or without TiddlySpace).

[1] There are others, including being a framework upon which tiddler-base applications can be built. I wrote some thoughts related to these things recently: http://cdent.tiddlyspace.com/TiddlySpace%20For%20Me 

[2] It is probably about time for a third manifesto?

[josep]

hi skye

like you, i am working in firefox and take notes
by combining iTW (http://itw.bidix.info/) and TiddlySnip (http://
tiddlysnip.com/).

in the rigth sidebar of the firefox windows (thanks to RightSide
extension)
is alway open the iTW version of TiddlyWiki,
and at any time i can take notes on my own ideas there
or if i am interested in take note of a visited site
i use TiddlySnip.

hope this helps,
josep

On Mar 2, 5:18 pm, skye riquelme <riquelme.s...@gmail.com> wrote: