I’ve just joined this month, and I’m building a TiddlyWiki which will eventually contain a lot of family information that I have gathered over 25 years of researching family history. That will include a lot of references to information on many other websites.
Is there a quick way to insert a hyperlink in a tiddler, giving it a short meaningful name?
I have spotted a bit of code that does this , Marcus Fitch in TribalPages results in a useful link, but I have to copy in 3 separate bits of code around the link and my meaningful name. That’s tedious and I’d like to have a quick easy process. (I’ve got the bits of code stored in a separate document on my laptop, and cut and paste them in, but even so it’s tedious, and its easy to miss off a few characters when copying the long part)
While writing this question I can see a Hyperlink button (the one that looks like 2 links of a chain, Ctrl-K), and that allows me to enter the URL and my own title, which is what I want to do. But when I am writing a Tiddler in my own TiddlyWiki the same button (which is Ctrl-L) only offers me the option to link to another WikiText. If I try to use Ctrl-K, it does nothing.
Thanks, Richard
see Linking in WikiText on TiddlyWiki.com
Specifically, the section on “External Links” which uses the same syntax as “pretty” Tiddler Links
[[text to show|https://...]]
where the part following the | starts with a recognized “protocol” (http://, https://, file://, mailto:, etc). If it doesn’t use one of these protocols, you can force an external link by adding ext to the syntax, like this:
[ext[text to show|...]]
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ctrl-L does permit selecting text, then pasting a html link works.
if moving across websites to collect links and paste into tiddlywiki we can make bookmarklets, use browser extensions, it’s worth the effort if you need to do many.
Thanks Eric, especially for the link to the page on Linking in WikiText. It’s a bit frustrating that there isn’t a simple way to use Ctrl-K, it’s like using Ctrl-K in Word to insert a link, then finding it doesn’t work in Excel. But I see that it would need to cover various styles of links. So I will use the simpler [[TW5|https://tiddlywiki.com/]]
Based on your use case, have you looked at Craig Sturgeon’s Memory Keeper? It’s built with TiddlyWiki and designed for holding all those diferent artifacts that we researchers accumulate.
I have tried Memory Keeper, I downloaded a copy and tried using it for a few days. I found there was too much pre-configured stuff that I wanted to change or delete. (I’d never use the parts about Indigenous Nations, my family is on the other side of the Atlantic.).
I found a suitable template here that allowed me to build the family story the way that I like it.