2nd April 2023 Newsletter

Covers: Mar 19th 2023 thru Apr 2th 2023

News

Announcing the release of TiddlyWiki v5.2.7

TiddlyWiki v5.2.7 has just been released to:

https://tiddlywiki.com/

This is a bug fix release to fix a single bug that was introduced in the prior v5.2.6 release.

You can upgrade your existing single file wikis here:

https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.html

For Node.js users, the new version is available on npm at tiddlywiki - npm

As usual, please exercise caution when upgrading, and take care to keep backup copies of everything important.

I’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to this release.

Any questions or comments are welcome here, or via GitHub.

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Articles

3 Steps to building your own personal Knowledge Management System

We'll explore personal knowledge management in this article, learning what it means, who can benefit from it, and what it offers. Discover how to create a personal knowledge management system and grow your own knowledge base.

Article here

Discussion here

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Plugins

Extra Filter Operators Updated: Release 1.2

As part of working on an unannounced project I wanted a search mechanism that has more functionality than you can squeeze from vanilla TW. I didn’t like the idea of shipping those with the plugin and so the idea was born to share them.

As it usually happens with my ideas, what was one simple filter turned into 4 complex filters that should cover all your searching needs together with new and exceptional documentation, unit tests guaranteeing no regressions and powerful live example.

There are four filter operators available as of now:

susearch – search that’s slightly more powerful than the good-old search; among others it can strip away wikitext to avoid false positives caused by the structure.

susearch-sort – sort the results in an intelligent way that for the most part should feel just right and natural.

susearch-mark – for highlighting the matches.

focus-on – for extracting a part of the input, specifically designed for partial previews of the matched text.

Documentation · Demo · Install: Extra Operators

Discussion here

hiveBroker for TiddlyWiki Classic

hiveBroker can be your starting point for all your classic TiddlyWiki's.

TiddlyWiki classic is traditionally used in a browser like Firefox or Chrome or in TiddlyDesktop.

TiddlyDesktop provides a more application like look and feel, it runs on NW.js an is suited for TiddlyWiki classic and TiddlyWiki 5.

Over the years saving a TiddlyWiki in a browser became more and more difficult and I started looking for something else.

My starting point was that I only wanted to use classic TiddlyWiki's, on NW.js or Electron , with a very open architecture.

First I wrote a very basic saver to use TiddlyWiki classic with NW.js. From a running TiddlyWiki classic on NW.js you can open another TiddlyWiki classic in a new window. The same as one would use tabs in a browser.

Because I use several classic TiddlyWiki's I needed something to organize, categorize and find them with ease.

The hiveBroker-Plugin.js makes this possible, this plugin can generate a tiddler with file information in it for all folders/files in selected folders on your drive. The generated tiddlers have buttons to do basic things like delete, rename, copy and start your classic TiddlyWiki. From the tiddlers a dashboard is generated that shows you bagdes for all classic TiddlyWiki's or files that you selected, by extension, badge color, tags and sorted by number of clicks.

Available here

Discussion here