[tw5] Evolving from private thoughts to public posts

[Lyn Headley]

I'm interested in using tw5 to evolve my thoughts, from private sketches to something worth publishing, and I'm wondering if others are using tw5 for this, and if so, how. 

Personally, I don't think I want multiple editions or wikis, but a single one, containing all my tiddlers whether public or private. Then, I imagine that I would want to publish a single cluster of thoughts at once.

One workflow I'm considering is writing a toplevel article containing links and transclusions. Then, by adding the tag "published" to an article, I could use the rendertiddlers command to publish a public version of my wiki, containing only the published articles /and/ everything they link to. So publishing is a gradual process of constructing links, and being published is either being tagged as a root article, or being linked from one.

Any reactions to this? Is it feasible? Any caveats or suggestions? 

Experiences doing something similar?

[Hegart Dmishiv]

Hi Lyn,

You should have a look at the new toolbar that Jeremy has been working on in TW5.1.12-prerelease. The TextSlicer excision tool might be helpful for selecting just the thoughts you want to publish.

Hegart.

[Lyn Headley]

Thanks Hegart,

Maybe I'm missing something, but text slicer appears to work on large, monolithic texts, converting them to a more tiddlywiki-friendly "atomic" size. If that's accurate, I won't need the tool as long as I'm doing my original authoring in small atomic tiddlers (which is my plan). Is that right?

-Lyn

[Hegart Dmishiv]

Hi Lyn,

Yes, you're quite right. If I were doing what you intend to do, I'd be working with long, monolithic texts, hehe. I tend to ramble sometimes, even in my own private notes.

All the best,

Hegart.

[Mat]

Lyn,

Yes, I do something similar to what you describe with TWaddle. Basically, I use another tiddlyspot where I put the drafts ("the thoughts") and occasionally, I transfer that whole TW to TWaddle. Unfortunately the process for transferring is less than optimal which is a reason why I rarely publish anything these days.

The ideal would be like this: I'd use the admin tiddlyspot, like a regular tiddlyspot i.e click save to upload like usual. When I have articles ready for publication, these are tagged or befielded with a "Publish". Then I'd ideally simply choose another "publish to TWaddle" saving button.

(Ok, the absolutely ideal would be if one could publish only single tiddlers that merged into the existing TWaddle, but that's... well, another story).

So, anyway, the above is not possible so the actual workflow is instead like this:

In my admin tiddlyspot, I do and save and do stuff like usual. When I eventually feel like publishing, I use a special saving filter kindly provided by Jeremy, here. This  filters out tiddlers, i.e I must keep unfinished tiddlers marked (tagged Unfinished). (Again, it would be nicer if I could tag what should be published rather than not-published... but this would mean I must also somehow include all surrounding non-article tiddlers.)

Now, I've put a separate button in the sidebar for saving with this filter;

<$button>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-download-file" $param="$:/_TWaddle/PublishFilter" filename="twaddletopublish.html"/>
Publish
</$button>

Unfortunately, this doesn't save the filtered file to TWaddle but instead downloads it. And I must then go into this downloaded file and enter password etc for TWaddle and upload (now from my disc).

It works but it has turned out to hampered the joy of actually publishing stuff.


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