Favorites Plugin 4 beta: a rewrite of favorites 3.x

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Mohammad

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Dec 20, 2019, 8:50:59 AM12/20/19
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Favorites Plugin 4.0.0 a Rewrite

20th December 2019 at 5:17pm

WARNING

Don't use for any purpose except evaluating the new features! DONT install on your own wiki!

ONLY for Evaluation Favorites New Features!

Tiddlywiki5.1.21+
 
LicenseMIT
 
Release4.0.0 beta
 
Statusin progress

New concepts

A new major relase of Favorites plugin is planned. It WILL contains

  • Favorite folders (like firefox bookmark folder)
  • Export all favorite items (planned)
  • Clear all favorite items (planned)
  • Change category by drag and drop
  • Add items by drag and drop
  • Add new items from tiddler view toolbar
  • Remove items from Favorites sidebar tab
  • Remove items from tiddler view toolbar

How to use

  • From right sidebar, open the Favorites tab and try
    • add remove items
    • reorder items
    • change category (folder)
    • add remove new items from tiddler view toolbar

Demo

https://kookma.github.io/TW-Favorites/


Please send your feedback!


--Mohammad

Mohammad

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Dec 23, 2019, 4:34:06 AM12/23/19
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A new update is pushed to GitHub
Still experimental and looks for feedback.



Release 4.0.1

  • Dec 23th, 2019
  • [NEW] favorite folder
  • [NEW] rename folder using inline editbox
  • [NEW] drag and drop between folders
  • [NEW] add new favorites to the begining of list
  • [NEW] favorite manager - initial idea
  • [NEW] drag and drop a tag pill to add all tiddlers to favorites

TiddlyTweeter

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Dec 23, 2019, 12:55:04 PM12/23/19
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Ciao Mohammad

I'm writing here as a user.

WHAT is the advantage of the (nice functions) additions you just made?

They are very accomplished.

BUT what do they ADD to the primary aim  of simply bookmarking something I can find later?

I am NOT in  any way criticising. I am merely thinking about normal use.

My use, and use of "favourites" I have seen by others, is all "flat"--meaning you flag it, OR not.

What are the advantages of going further?

Just thoughts
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Mohammad

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Dec 23, 2019, 1:27:07 PM12/23/19
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Hi Josiah,
 As soon as favorites get large and larger, it is difficult to find what you are looking in the fav list easily,
sometimes is better to make a search in TW standard search box, so

- the favorites folder has been added to let you categorize your favs
- drag and drop has been improved to simply add favs from other lists like tag pills and any links

Sometimes you want to export your fav selection and for example you gonna to share it with some one.

You may want to remove old favs and use it for new ones (so you need a bulk operation tool)

The idea has been taken from Firefox bookmark tools.


In a extreme case you want to create a simple reading list with a TOC and this favorites plugin can create it from your selection.


--Mohammad

TiddlyTweeter

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Dec 23, 2019, 2:40:09 PM12/23/19
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Ciao Mohammad

It is interesting!

Somewhere in this your "favourites" are evolving from being "flat-level" indicators into something more like a  "structured bookmark system".

I'm sure that is  good!

Just not sure the rest of the Internet uses them that way!

It is an interesting question about "terminology"

Thoughts
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Magnus

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Dec 27, 2019, 5:52:27 PM12/27/19
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I really like this, but I wondered if it would be possible to delete favFolder one by one instead of all or nothing?

Mohammad

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Dec 27, 2019, 10:23:17 PM12/27/19
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Hi Magnus,
 All these new features are in release 4.0.3 beta!

I will announce a new beta shortly!

--Mohammad
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