[IDEA] Archiving tiddlers, for Projectify users and potentially others

[dieg...@gmail.com]

I work a lot with Nicos excellent Projectify plugin.

As a result, I have a lot of ephemeral tiddlers for my to-dos that once done, are no longer really needed as full tiddlers. I don't need to search them, tag them, etc.

Also, since I use node, I don't really want them cluttering the tiddlers folder, as I frequently go in there and do some searching outside TW.

As a result, I thought about "Archiving" them, or "flattening" them, into a single JSON tiddler for reference.

I came up with the following "Archive" button, which appends all tiddlers tagged with done to an Archive tiddler.

Code:

<$vars archiveTiddlerTitle="Archive"
       todoText=<<jsontiddlers "[tag[done]]" >>
       emptyJSON="[]" linebreak="

">
    <$set name="newArchiveText"
          filter="[<todoText>!match<emptyJSON>]"
          value={{{ [title<archiveTiddlerTitle>get[text]addsuffix<linebreak>addsuffix<todoText>] }}}
          emptyValue={{{ [title<archiveTiddlerTitle>get[text]] }}} >

        <$button>
            <$action-setfield $tiddler=<<archiveTiddlerTitle>>
                              $field="text"
                              $value=<<newArchiveText>> />
            <$action-deletetiddler $filter="[tag[done]]" />           
            Archive!
        </$button>

    </$set>
</$vars>

Some notes:

• I had to solve an annoying issue with the <<jsontiddlers>> macro that when its empty, returns an "[]", which is actually not empty (is this intended?!)
  
• Different archiving batches will just be appended as separate JSON objects, instead of merging everything back into one large JSON object.
• There is no "unarchive" feature, and building one is probably beyond my abilities (thought might be a good use case for Joshua's JSON Mangler! if I understand it correctly!)

This could be of use for others to "flatten" large tag structures that you're done with and don't need flying around as separate tiddlers.

Your thoughts/suggestions/comments/etc are welcome!

Diego

[Hans Huber]

Diego

Sounds to me as if KOOKMAs trashbin plugin does exactly what you intend

HH

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[TW Tones]

Diego,

Good idea providing "full" archive to Projectify. If packaged perhaps you can "give" it to the author to include.

I want to do something similar with streams, but I need additional logic. I use a naming standard for stream (tiddlers) to hide them behind system tiddlers "$:/", however if one wants to keep them indefinitely and make them accessible, I rename them to non system tiddlers.

Obviously If I am on a tiddler with a lot of stream notes, I may want to archive the whole set but not remove regular tiddlers.

As mentioned by HH Mohamad's trashbin (KOOKMAs) plugin does this already,  I would like to see your solution, mohamads or the recent Basket tool generalised to provide better tiddler to json and back handling.

Just some thoughts

Tones