I remembered and reviewed that, it is a nice overview of the workings and a valuable resource, but I could not extract from that sufficient understanding to learn how to move content “into and out of, or between the various formats”, nor could I understand the templates to use, to generate a tiddler containing multiple tiddlers in one or more of those formats, or subsequently extract them, in wiki, not just on import.
- Because tiddlers are easily interchanged between wikis, via drag and drop and export import, I figure we can reuse these formats to get different outcomes.
- The ability to understand these formats and develop solutions that leverage them should not need much, or any new code.
Examples may include;
- Archiving tiddlers to another tiddler but not appear as shadows
- Identify tiddlers changes in a plugin tiddler (ie edited) and insert the updated tiddlers back into the plugin, or add delete tiddlers in the “plugin”.
- Retain N multiple versions of a given tiddler in such a tiddler (in wiki tiddler backup)
- Archive tiddlers such as they are searchable in the archive, but not standard search.
- Similar to a trashbin without relying on system tiddlers.
- Restore test data to a known state from a plugin or package
- I would love to be able to package tiddlers and save them as JSON files in wiki, and start to avoid using the file system, perhaps even make a virtual filesystem within a wiki, for tiddlers, json, data tiddlers and other wiki “files” if not for other common formats.
- With export to the file system as needed. eg; Powershell scripts, YAML, xml formats that MS Word can read, email files, ZIP files, PDF that the wiki can display and more.
- Pre or post tiddlywiki rendering.
I am looking forward to that 