Recently it was proved that plugins can be used very effectively for distributing e-books. During the pandemic I tried to distribute course notes using plugins. Student can open tiddlers, edit them, add comments and if they delete, they always have the original course notes intact.
What do you think? Are you interested to have such a tool?
In place, in browser create, edit and publish Tiddlywiki components!
Make plugins of other types! The Others
Your ideas, comments, feedback are highly welcome!
Hi Mohammad, this sounds very interesting. I have been a Tinka user for my plugins and themes, so I would be willing to try a new tool with more options. I hope the additional features do not make it more complicated …
Do you have a timeline?
(My Tix project might reach maturity to become a plugin within the next month or so.)
Hi Thomas,
Actually I am working on it and I hope I have the first public release in mid February! In the meantime I would push any code to GitHub repo! The main features planned are:
a sidebar contains plugins folder (or namespace)
a tree with collapsible branches of all tiddlers contained in the plugin. each branch keeps tiddlers of same category like macros, styles, …
simple addition of macro/stylesheets/other-tiddlers to plugin using predefined templates
boilerplate tiddlers to add quickly readme, license, history
live editing
export button to fire the save dialogue and export plugin as json or tid file
export button to fire the save dialogue and export an empty.html with new plugin included
export button to fire save dialogue and export a zipped empty.html plus plugin
Flexibility
the restriction of having plugins name (prefix $:/plugins/publisher/name) for content plugins are removed
Still it requires to have plugin-name/tiddler
Issues
main issue is with content plugins (e.g presentation, course notes, …)
they need to be loaded if we want to use their tiddlers like ordinary tiddlers e,g to appear in search
