personal database / files catalogue using tiddlywiki

[Nikhil Sheth]

Hi,

I wanted a way to manage my video collection (too huge and confusing) using tags, and found a way to use Tiddlywiki to create a database / catalog of all the files in a folder.
It had to be portable, something I could take around in my HDD with my videos, and usable to directly watch the videos too. And it had to be dynamic : I'll add tags to videos as I go along; can't do everything at once. And of course, updatable: so I can add more videos as they come.

I don't make software; I don't have any programming expertise in database languages, and can just understand some basic javascript and HTML, so just looked at the source of tiddlers and figured out a quick-and-dirty way of getting it done! I've been able to make a javascript wizard for doing it and embedded it into the tiddlywiki itself, so anyone can follow some simple instructions and set up a database / catalog of their own collection.

So, please check out : https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7z787xi8aqy7u1/tiddlywiki%20database.zip?m

It's a zip file having one template tiddly file that anyone can use to create their own catalog of files/videos/ebooks etc, and a sample tiddly file to demonstrate how it can be used (the links to the files won't work of course). I can't say if I'll work any further on this, but any feedback is welcome.

And to the creators: Thanks for making tiddlywiki decentralized!

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Cheers,
Nikhil Sheth
+91-966-583-1250
Udaipur/Pune, India
Self-designed learner at Swaraj University
http://www.nikhilsheth.tk
http://www.facebook.com/nikjs

[whatever]

Hi!
An interesting solution. I might actually use it for an initial data
import into TW (using Excel so far :D). However, regenerating the list
each time seems kinda bothersome and requires generating a list
outside of TW. Then again, you're adding files, so I see how it might
actually be efficient, at least for initial list.

Anyway, if you are interested in learning more about TW databases/
lists, here are a couple of different solutions:
http://www.strm.us/tw/cigars
http://baggr.tiddlyspot.com/
http://tiddlymarks.tiddlyspot.com/

There are plenty others, but these are off the top of my head.

If you decide to play around, you could use FileDropPlugin (1) for
quickly adding movies to TW database and ForEachTiddlerPlugin (2) for
creating lists (or just the default list macro :D).

(1) http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#FileDropPlugin
(2) http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#ForEachTiddlerPlugin

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> Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org>http://www.nikhilsheth.tkhttp://www.facebook.com/nikjs

[Nikhil Sheth]

Hi,

The FileDropPlugin looks interesting. I imported it and
AttachFilePlugin, AttachFilePluginFormatters and AttachFileMIMETypes
as instructed.
I even change Firefox settings as instructed:

>Note: if the plugin does not seem to work, enter about:config in the Firefox address bar, and make sure that >signed.applets.codebase_principal_support is set to true

But even now, on dropping a file over the open Tiddlywiki, it does
whatever is the default behaviour. An HTML or TXT file is browsed to
(tiddlywiki left behind); for video or such files, a Save dialog box
opens.

I'm using Firefox 19.0, the tiddlyfox extension (latest one shared in
this forum) is installed, on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid).

Any help would be wonderful... simply dragging and dropping the files
would make it so much easier.. thanks in advance!