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Ed Heil
Mar 9, 2020, 1:20:04 PM3/9/20
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I've been having a ton of fun with tiddlywikis lately; the only thing that's been getting me down is using them on iOS, which is a pain. There's the Quine app which is neat, but wish I could do more.
What I'm thinking of is the fact that as of iOS 11, it was possible for the Files app to hand off a file to another application to open *and modify*, saving the modified version back to the Files app.
All *kinds* of things expose themselves to the Files app; iCloud, Dropbox, and with the right apps to connect them, even github repositories and sftp shares.
A tiddlywiki app which took advantage of this could be incredibly versatile. It would essentially just have to be a special-purpose browser for displaying the tiddlywikis, and then a mechanism for receiving the "saves" probably equivalent to whatever TiddlyDesktop is doing (I don't know what that is) which writes them back to the original location via Files's api.
I don't suppose such a thing exists?
I have a small amount of iOS programming knowledge, and if I dropped the money on an Apple developer's certificate and put enough work into it I might be able to make something like this myself (always easier to say than to do of course). But it'd sure be nice if somebody else had already done it....
What I'm thinking of is the fact that as of iOS 11, it was possible for the Files app to hand off a file to another application to open *and modify*, saving the modified version back to the Files app.
All *kinds* of things expose themselves to the Files app; iCloud, Dropbox, and with the right apps to connect them, even github repositories and sftp shares.
A tiddlywiki app which took advantage of this could be incredibly versatile. It would essentially just have to be a special-purpose browser for displaying the tiddlywikis, and then a mechanism for receiving the "saves" probably equivalent to whatever TiddlyDesktop is doing (I don't know what that is) which writes them back to the original location via Files's api.
I don't suppose such a thing exists?
I have a small amount of iOS programming knowledge, and if I dropped the money on an Apple developer's certificate and put enough work into it I might be able to make something like this myself (always easier to say than to do of course). But it'd sure be nice if somebody else had already done it....
Jeremy Ruston
Mar 9, 2020, 4:23:03 PM3/9/20
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Hi Ed
Chris Hunt is now working on Quine 2, which is built around the new iOS 11 and 13 file APIs, much as you suggest. There’s a TestFlight beta, more details in Quine’s own Google Group here:
Best wishes
Jeremy
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Ed Heil
Mar 9, 2020, 8:07:32 PM3/9/20
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Outstanding. Thank you!
Jeremy
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