I love Tiddlywiki for curating and sharing content, whether online or as a shareable file, but I do not always like working in, or keeping the content, in TiddlyWiki.
Is there an easy workflow for importing markdown files on the fly for sharing?
There is a plugin to view markdown directly in tiddlywiki and most non-binary files can be imported into tiddlers. But I am not sure what kind of sharing you want. Would a tiddlyhost wiki be what you need?
If you’re working in Node.js, this is almost trivial, so long as your Markdown files are stand-alone and don’t cross-link amongst each other. If you create a Markdown tiddler, it will become two files in your tiddlers folder, one a plain markdown file, with an .md extension, the second a .md.meta file with Tiddlywiki metadata. You can maintain that file outside TW as much as you want. When you restart you will get the new content. The same is true if you drag a Markdown file onto your wiki and import it.
You can easily move these into a subfolder of tiddlers to segregate them from other content. And there are tricks (I know about but haven’t used) to point TW towards content in other folder locations.
For a standalone wiki, I don’t think it’s that hard to drag in the Markdown file after changes, but I don’t know what techniques there might be for automating that.
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