[tw] [TW5] listing/transcluding snippets of highlighted text

[Stefan Spycher]

Hi!

first off, i'm a newbie (been using TW for 4 days), but LOVE it.
tech-savvyness on a scale from 1 (aka: my grandmother) -10 (aka: your
typical nerd): 4

Use Case:
i'm taking many notes, pasting emails, taking meeting minutes etc in TW.
so, basically 'collecting' data.
about 1% of that turns out to be important enough to include into a weekly
report i'm sending out to peers and supervisors.
i'm currently marking / highlighting that 1% *inline* by using another tip
from this forum...i'm overriding the CSS for the subscript decoration

Q: is there a way to create a collector tiddler, that filters/searches for
the 'sub' CSS in all tiddlers, and transcludes the string i highlighted?

Thank you!

S

[Mat]

Hi Stefan and welcome to TW! If you like TW - don't forget to tell your
friends <http://tiddlywiki.com/#HelpingTiddlyWiki>!

I made the CherryPicker <http://cherrypicker.tiddlyspot.com/> for pretty
much exactly what you ask for. It is not perfected though.
I believe fellow Thomas has made variant of this too (it may be his Extract
macro, not sure).

<:-)

[Stefan Spycher]

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Hey Mat, thanks a LOT for your help!

it might be TW version issue (or me just doing it wrong), but i'm not
getting clean results yet (see screenshot)

Post by Mat
Hi Stefan and welcome to TW! If you like TW - don't forget to tell your
friends <http://tiddlywiki.com/#HelpingTiddlyWiki>!
I made the CherryPicker <http://cherrypicker.tiddlyspot.com/> for pretty
much exactly what you ask for. It is not perfected though.
I believe fellow Thomas has made variant of this too (it may be his
Extract macro, not sure).
<:-)

[Stefan Spycher]

sorry, my previous comment got mangled by the screenshot somehow
please reduce my tech-savvyness index by 2 points :)

@Mat, i'm getting results, but they are garbled. I tired with several
markers (some weird, very distinct strings too) to no avail. am i doing it
wrong or am i facing a TW version incompatibility?

I would love getting this to work, it's as if you've read my mind

thanks
Stefan

Post by Mat
Hi Stefan and welcome to TW! If you like TW - don't forget to tell your
friends <http://tiddlywiki.com/#HelpingTiddlyWiki>!
I made the CherryPicker <http://cherrypicker.tiddlyspot.com/> for pretty
much exactly what you ask for. It is not perfected though.
I believe fellow Thomas has made variant of this too (it may be his
Extract macro, not sure).
<:-)

[Mat]

@Stefan

if I recall (it was a while ago!), the start- and end markers must be on
the format " &&Your Text" and "End Of Text&& " respectively, i.e note the
spaces and lack of spaces surrounding the "&&".

<:-)

[Stefan Spycher]

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Hi Mat,

i gave it another try, removing the whitespaces. unfortunately without an

Post by Mat
@Stefan
if I recall (it was a while ago!), the start- and end markers must be on
the format " &&Your Text" and "End Of Text&& " respectively, i.e note the
spaces and lack of spaces surrounding the "&&".
<:-)

[Mat]

Stefan, I'll look in to this but I can't say when. I'm already involved in
a few other things here so it may take time. Did you have a chance to look
up Thomas Elmigers version of this? It may be his extract macro but I'm not
quite sure. @Thomas - ?

<:-)

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi Stefan and Mat

My Extract macro should do the job. In a recent discussion we pointed out, that the documentation is lousy (sorry!), but the discussion itself should be helpful.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/tiddlywiki/u-Dq4CywvD0/vrL_gfB0AwAJ

Cheers,
Thomas

[Stefan Spycher]

@Thomas, i'll look into it. i did a few quick tests, it worked, but didn't
*really* cover my use case yet. i'm sure i'm missing something though.
in a nutshell, what i'm stumbling over is the fact that i don't want to use
the search in the right rail, but create twiddlers which do the search &
extraction.
does that make sense? :)

But thanks for sharing, i'll dig deeper next week!

@Mat, no worries, and huge thanks for your help so far!



Post by Thomas Elmiger
Hi Stefan and Mat
My Extract macro should do the job. In a recent discussion we pointed out,
that the documentation is lousy (sorry!), but the discussion itself should
be helpful.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/tiddlywiki/u-Dq4CywvD0/vrL_gfB0AwAJ
Cheers,
Thomas

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi Stefan,

After importing the macro from here
<http://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#Extract%20Macro> (by dragging over the link
in the *Extract Macro Components* paragraph) you should be able to place
the following in any tiddler to find all highlighted text:

<<extract "OriginalTiddler" start:",," end:",," limit:"no">>

the parameters tell the extract macro to 


- look for content in a tiddler titled *OriginalTiddler*
- cut out snippets starting with ,, (the subscript marker)
- cut out snippets up to the ending marked with ,, (the subscript marker
again)
- give you all snippets (instead of only the first)


Hope, this helps.

GrÃŒessli
Thomas

Post by Stefan Spycher
@Thomas, i'll look into it. i did a few quick tests, it worked, but didn't
*really* cover my use case yet. i'm sure i'm missing something though.
in a nutshell, what i'm stumbling over is the fact that i don't want to
use the search in the right rail, but create twiddlers which do the search
& extraction.
does that make sense? :)
But thanks for sharing, i'll dig deeper next week!
@Mat, no worries, and huge thanks for your help so far!



Post by Thomas Elmiger
Hi Stefan and Mat
My Extract macro should do the job. In a recent discussion we pointed
out, that the documentation is lousy (sorry!), but the discussion itself
should be helpful.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/tiddlywiki/u-Dq4CywvD0/vrL_gfB0AwAJ
Cheers,
Thomas

[Stefan Spycher]

Thanks Thomas, i'll give it a try.
for the record, i started playing around with Tobias Beers split plugin
[0], which seems pretty straight forward too. so, i'll try to find out the
differences between those two

thanks a lot!

Stefan

[0] http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#split

Post by Thomas Elmiger
Hi Stefan,
After importing the macro from here
<http://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#Extract%20Macro> (by dragging over the link
in the *Extract Macro Components* paragraph) you should be able to place
<<extract "OriginalTiddler" start:",," end:",," limit:"no">>
the parameters tell the extract macro to 

- look for content in a tiddler titled *OriginalTiddler*
- cut out snippets starting with ,, (the subscript marker)
- cut out snippets up to the ending marked with ,, (the subscript
marker again)
- give you all snippets (instead of only the first)
Hope, this helps.
GrÃŒessli
Thomas

Post by Stefan Spycher
@Thomas, i'll look into it. i did a few quick tests, it worked, but
didn't *really* cover my use case yet. i'm sure i'm missing something
though.
in a nutshell, what i'm stumbling over is the fact that i don't want to
use the search in the right rail, but create twiddlers which do the search
& extraction.
does that make sense? :)
But thanks for sharing, i'll dig deeper next week!
@Mat, no worries, and huge thanks for your help so far!



Post by Thomas Elmiger
Hi Stefan and Mat
My Extract macro should do the job. In a recent discussion we pointed
out, that the documentation is lousy (sorry!), but the discussion itself
should be helpful.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/tiddlywiki/u-Dq4CywvD0/vrL_gfB0AwAJ
Cheers,
Thomas

[Stefan Spycher]

Thomas, a quick update: your macro works like a charm, and i'm eternally
grateful ! :)
THANK YOU (merci villmol)

Post by Stefan Spycher
Thanks Thomas, i'll give it a try.
for the record, i started playing around with Tobias Beers split plugin
[0], which seems pretty straight forward too. so, i'll try to find out the
differences between those two
thanks a lot!
Stefan
[0] http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#split

Post by Thomas Elmiger
Hi Stefan,
After importing the macro from here
<http://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#Extract%20Macro> (by dragging over the
link in the *Extract Macro Components* paragraph) you should be able to
<<extract "OriginalTiddler" start:",," end:",," limit:"no">>
the parameters tell the extract macro to 

- look for content in a tiddler titled *OriginalTiddler*
- cut out snippets starting with ,, (the subscript marker)
- cut out snippets up to the ending marked with ,, (the subscript
marker again)
- give you all snippets (instead of only the first)
Hope, this helps.
GrÃŒessli
Thomas

Post by Stefan Spycher
@Thomas, i'll look into it. i did a few quick tests, it worked, but
didn't *really* cover my use case yet. i'm sure i'm missing something
though.
in a nutshell, what i'm stumbling over is the fact that i don't want to
use the search in the right rail, but create twiddlers which do the search
& extraction.
does that make sense? :)
But thanks for sharing, i'll dig deeper next week!
@Mat, no worries, and huge thanks for your help so far!



Post by Thomas Elmiger
Hi Stefan and Mat
My Extract macro should do the job. In a recent discussion we pointed
out, that the documentation is lousy (sorry!), but the discussion itself
should be helpful.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/tiddlywiki/u-Dq4CywvD0/vrL_gfB0AwAJ
Cheers,
Thomas