Question if it can be done: a special kind of stamp

[David Gifford]

Hi all

Is it possible to create a stamp that

1) grabs the title of the current tiddler, and

2) stamps it as text?

Use case: I take notes on reading in chapters of books, and in webpages, and would like to more quickly stamp their sources after the note or snippet in question. If the title of the tiddler is "https://..." or "Book (Author), ch 1", then by clicking on a button in the edittoolbar I could quickly add the source.

[Mark S.]

I've been thinking for awhile that it would be neat to have a "dynamic" stamp, that doesn't just paste text, but renders it first.

Here's a first step towards that. Drag and drop the attached into your backed-up TW. Reload.

This will put a second stamp symbol in your editor. This stamp will attempt to render your stamp snippets. I've provided two

stamps. One generates the current time. The other generates the current title IF this is the only tiddler being edited

at the moment. I didn't have a way to grab the current title. Possibly it's in the code somewhere. So ... first stab.

A better approach would be to have snippets that could be tagged as "dynamic". Then there would be only one stamp tool

in the toolbar. But that would require changing core code, so this will have to do for now.

Hope this is what you were looking for!

-- Mark

[Mark S.]

It would be really helpful if I actually attached the file ...

[David Gifford]

Wow, Mark, this is great! Thank you!

Okay, next question: would there be a way for me to edit this so that the title gets wrapped in a span class? I tried editing

"Snippet - Title of draft tiddler",

but while it stamped regular text I had added, it did not stamp the span class.

[Mark S.]

This seemed to work in the title snippet:

<$vars myspan="<span class='gifford'>" myspanx="</span>" >
{{{ [all[tiddlers]removeprefix[Draft of ']removesuffix[']addprefix<myspan>addsuffix<myspanx>] }}}
</$vars>

You can see where to change the class name as needed.

[David Gifford]

Mark, if I were to have more kids I would name one after you! Thank you so much!

[David Gifford]

Hi Mark (and anyone else who happens to see this)

Would there be a way to create a stamp for the following?

[[sources| + datetimestamp of now + ]]

My use case is taking a note, then having a link to another tiddler, with the current date and time as its title, containing links to sources. I would stamp the above in my notes tiddler, save the notes tiddler, then click on the link to create the datetimestamp tiddler and add sources.

[Mark S.]

<$vars now=<<now>> lb="[[" pipe="|" rb="]]">
{{{ [[sources]addprefix<lb>addsuffix<pipe>addsuffix<now>addsuffix<rb>] }}}
</$vars>

[David Gifford]

Thanks Mark! I am going to give this a go! Blessings

Dave

[David Gifford]

Delayed reaction, I stepped away from this and came back to it. Works awesome. Thank you Mark!

On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 8:40:46 AM UTC-6, Mark S. wrote: