Great hack/workflow! Impressed. :) Joshua Fontany
On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 1:44:58 PM UTC-7 tony wrote: > Thank you so much for this!! > > Leveraging the convenience of the browser address bar saves steps of > having to go through UI in Advanced Search > > Your method works with node.js as you explain so clearly! Keyword + > <search term> expands to > > http://localhost:8080/myfolder/mywiki.html#:[!is[system]search[<search > term>]] > <http://localhost:8080/myfolder/mywiki.html#:[!is[system]search[platinum]]> > > which opens up mywiki.html with search results in the story river :-) Wow! > > Best, > tony > > On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 11:00:26 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> In the meantime I figured TiddlyWiki already filters system tiddlers out >> by default, so this could be made a little simpler. So for the record here >> is a canonical post gathering the whole procedure, >> >> Lets say you have a wiki at D:/TiddlyWiki.html and need to search it >> frequently and conveniently from your browser address bar like you would >> using any regular web search engine. >> As Riz mentioned you can use the Permalinks >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/#PermaLinks>feature to pass down a *Story Filter* >> parameter directly from your address bar, that will determine which >> tiddlers are open on page load. >> >> Since most browsers interpret %s string in a URL as placeholder that >> gets replaced by a user search terms, you can setup a search engine or >> bookmark with a name like My Wiki, address pointing to your wiki like >> file:///D:/TiddlyWiki.html#:[search[%s]] and keyword wiki. >> If you then type into the address bar the keyword followed by a space >> then a search term like personal notes so that you end up with something >> like wiki personal notes it would then automatically resolve the >> address and take you to file:///D:/TiddlyWiki.html#:[search[personal >> notes]] . >> This will effectively search you wiki for personal notes and open it >> already displaying a story river of open tiddlers containing your search >> term personal notes thus behaving similarly to a web search engine. >> >> Don't literally enter file:///D:/TiddlyWiki.html#:[search[%s]] into >> the address bar as it will show a javascript error instead, if you need to >> just type directly you should replace %s with an actual term like file: >> ///D:/TiddlyWiki.html#:[search[my search terms]]. >> >> So all you need to setup either book or a search engine in your browser >> pointing to your wiki file with a valid %s placeholder and a keyword. >> Under Chrome* go to Settings > Search Engines > Manage Search Engines and >> specify a keyword and a >> >> >> <https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/attach/666ee7ae746cd/tiddlywiki_chrome_search.png?part=0.1&view=1&authuser=0> >> >> For Firefox alike go to the bookmark manager under the *Bookmark Menu > >> Show All*, and specify a keyword. You can also manage them for existing >> bookmarks from the right-clicking menu on any bookmark and accessing >> *Properties*. >> >> >> >> <https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/attach/666ee7ae746cd/tiddlywiki_firefox_search.png?part=0.2&view=1&authuser=0> >> >> >> >> Replace [search[%s]] with any valid TiddlyWiki Filter >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Filter%20Expression> you like to present >> relevant output for your needs. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c3951c73-fc94-4c58-9b31-76a2264dca97n%40googlegroups.com.
