To some extent. I’ve only haphazardly followed saq’s work here. But while I think the ideas would overlap, I think they would also be substantially different.
Think about desktop File Explorers, such as Nautilus or Dolphin on Ubuntu, Windows Explorer, or Mac’s Finder. They used to start with, “here’s /home (or C:\) and you can navigate from there.” These days, the physical file system is deemphasized, and they focus on virtual ones such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Video, Trash/Recycling. While these systems may simply be pointers to folders within the file system, they don’t have to be, and the users don’t have to care. They can drag and drop files within and between them, open documents from within them and save files to them What if we also offered, say, Wikis?
If I would prefer to edit my CSS inside VS Code, I could navigate to Wikis/path/to/MyWiki/stylesheets/mainStyles.css (or some similar syntax, perhaps with a special separator after the specific wiki, like Wikis/path/to/MyWiki::stylesheets/mainStyles.css ), edit the file, and on save, it’s now in the wiki. I don’t know if there would have to be a manual refresh or if the host could send a signal to the browser that it’s changed. I can create and delete new files the same way, could clone tiddlers or whole “folders” full of them by dragging them between wikis. If I want to store my MS Project files inside my TW (the impetus for Shane’s question), it would feel just like storing it on the file system.
As I said, I’ve never written anything like this before. I can’t see any logical obstacle, but there could be all sorts of technical ones, and some might be insurmountable. My question now is more whether this sounds like something people would use.
The trick is to make this same idea more seamless. What if when you wanted to edit a tiddler inside a separate tool, you simply clicked “edit” and that tool loaded your file; that when you clicked “save” from that tool, your edits are loaded back into your wiki? Again, I don’t know just how possible this might be, but does it seem worth pursuing?