Tiddlers as Bookmarklets!!!

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Arlen Beiler

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Oct 18, 2017, 10:22:55 AM10/18/17
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Hey!!! Just made a discovery. You can drag a link to a Tiddler into your bookmarks as a bookmarklet and then drag it into another Tiddlywiki to import the tiddler. 

Hot off the press, 
Arlen

coda coder

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Oct 18, 2017, 10:44:21 AM10/18/17
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Well that's blindingly obvious.  I guess I must be blind!

Good spot, Arlen!

Jed Carty

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Oct 18, 2017, 10:50:55 AM10/18/17
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I think that this could be useful for storing bookmarklets to help with getting new systems set up.

coda coder

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Oct 18, 2017, 10:54:39 AM10/18/17
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On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 9:50:55 AM UTC-5, Jed Carty wrote:
I think that this could be useful for storing bookmarklets to help with getting new systems set up.

Right.  Ad hoc "bundles".  Cool.

TonyM

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Oct 18, 2017, 7:10:08 PM10/18/17
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Arlen

,Nice discovery, may even be a reason to use FireFoxe's side bar, allowing drag left and drop, and the side bar stays open while navigating TiddlyWikis on the righ.

I wonder how much I will use it

Tony

TonyM

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Oct 18, 2017, 9:30:30 PM10/18/17
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Arlen,

In tiddlyserver is it possible to add to the types in the settings.json file? It did not work for me

    "types":{
        "htmlfile": ["htm", "html"]
    },

    "types":{
        "htmlfile": ["htm", "html"]
        "jsonfile": ["json"]
        "tidfile": ["tid"]
    },

The answer to this may help me extend the trick you just shared!

Thanks
Tony

So that one can browse to a folder containing these?

Arlen Beiler

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Oct 18, 2017, 10:14:55 PM10/18/17
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Any folder may contain any file types and you can open any of them. The only purpose the types object serves is to determine the icon used in the directory listing. The icons are found in assets/icons/files. Also, you cannot specify a property with the same name twice in a JSON object. Just include the new types object containing all the data in one object.

Hope that helps,
Arlen

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TonyM

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Oct 19, 2017, 12:27:49 AM10/19/17
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Arlen,

My mistake, a typo fooled me, however I  currently map a network location \\studio8d\intranet\TW5 Intranet, to the I: drive

The Settings.json file reads
        "C:": "C:\\",
        "I:": "I:\\",

Is there away to specify the network share directly?

So, My Idea was to open a TiddlyServer address in an iframe and use the items there to drag and drop items into my current wiki,

however your tip


You can drag a link to a Tiddler into your bookmarks as a bookmarklet and then drag it into another Tiddlywiki to import the tiddler.

does not apply to items in the tiddly server file and folder list, and sadly not even an iframe with file:///i://

In fact dragging from / to bookmarks is only giving me a link to the file, not the contents..

I mistakenly Attributed the tip also to tiddly server - oops.

Regards
Tony




On Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 1:14:55 PM UTC+11, Arlen Beiler wrote:
Any folder may contain any file types and you can open any of them. The only purpose the types object serves is to determine the icon used in the directory listing. The icons are found in assets/icons/files. Also, you cannot specify a property with the same name twice in a JSON object. Just include the new types object containing all the data in one object.

Hope that helps,
Arlen
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:30 PM, TonyM <anthony...@gmail.com> wrote:
Arlen,

In tiddlyserver is it possible to add to the types in the settings.json file? It did not work for me

    "types":{
        "htmlfile": ["htm", "html"]
    },

    "types":{
        "htmlfile": ["htm", "html"]
        "jsonfile": ["json"]
        "tidfile": ["tid"]
    },

The answer to this may help me extend the trick you just shared!

Thanks
Tony

So that one can browse to a folder containing these?

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Arlen Beiler

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Oct 19, 2017, 7:37:01 AM10/19/17
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Apparently, Node doesn't support UNC paths (windows network paths). You can either specify another drive letter, or you can just load the file into the iframe using a file URL. If you paste the network path into your browser's address bar it will give you the file URL for the path. You might be able to just paste it into the iframe src attribute directly, I don't know.

Hope that helps,
Arlen

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Ramu Rajasekharan

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Oct 19, 2017, 10:04:21 AM10/19/17
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Thank you! I used to move tabs into new windows to do the same sort of stuff.

This should be written down somewhere!!! Like in the tiddlywiki site, or maybe tobias has a list of workflows, there.
Because I remember having to figure out workflows while using tiddlywiki in the beginning.

@TiddlyTweeter

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Oct 19, 2017, 10:12:36 AM10/19/17
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Is this proof that no one here has had a brain for a LONG time? :-) Lol!

Arlen Beiler wrote:
... You can drag a link to a Tiddler into your bookmarks as a bookmarklet and then drag it into another Tiddlywiki to import the tiddler. 

Hot off the press ...

coda coder

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Oct 19, 2017, 10:20:21 AM10/19/17
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On Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 9:12:36 AM UTC-5, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
Is this proof that no one here has had a brain for a LONG time? :-) Lol!

I know.  Can't believe I didn't think of that. It's just so bloody obvious!

:)

Arlen Beiler

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Oct 19, 2017, 10:49:00 AM10/19/17
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My thought process went something like this:
  • TiddlyServer almost didn't support single file saving because the put saver didn't work quite right.
  • [Remembers that dragging tiddlers from one wiki to another works because the tiddler data is encoded in the link]
  • I could have just made the saver, then copy the tiddler link and paste it into the directory index in TiddlyServer. That would make it easier for people to install it in their TiddlyWikis. And then, just like I did with the "Fix put saver" bookmarklet, I would tell people to bookmark it --
  • HEY!!! BOOKMARKS ARE LINKS!!! I SHOULD BE ABLE TO BOOKMARK A TIDDLER!!! AND IMPORT A BOOKMARK!!!
So you see, the thought process was natural. But someone had to think it. 

Arlen

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Birthe C

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Oct 19, 2017, 11:15:17 AM10/19/17
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Maybe i should not admit it, but I have used this for a long time now. I had absolutely no thought process. I have an inbuild keyboard mouse working terribly and one day dragging the link to a tiddler to another TW it just slipped in my bookmarks. Shortly after the browser went down and I had to restart. I still wanted the tiddler, så I just tried if it would work - and it did. ;-)


Birthe

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Oct 19, 2017, 11:21:55 AM10/19/17
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On Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 9:49:00 AM UTC-5, Arlen Beiler wrote:
My thought process went something like this:
  • TiddlyServer almost didn't support single file saving because the put saver didn't work quite right.
  • [Remembers that dragging tiddlers from one wiki to another works because the tiddler data is encoded in the link]
  • I could have just made the saver, then copy the tiddler link and paste it into the directory index in TiddlyServer. That would make it easier for people to install it in their TiddlyWikis. And then, just like I did with the "Fix put saver" bookmarklet, I would tell people to bookmark it --
  • HEY!!! BOOKMARKS ARE LINKS!!! I SHOULD BE ABLE TO BOOKMARK A TIDDLER!!! AND IMPORT A BOOKMARK!!!
So you see, the thought process was natural. But someone had to think it. 


Yeah.  YOU.  :)  Marvelous. 

@TiddlyTweeter

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Oct 19, 2017, 12:45:32 PM10/19/17
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Birthe

You HAVE thought.

Birthe C wrote:
... I have used this for a long time now. I had absolutely no thought process...
 
... så I just tried if it would work - and it did. ;-)

Most stuff in this thread is a mess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so5M8Mgf50c

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