WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts

[Perry Mowbray]

Hey guys: what great ideas 

I really liked the day page idea:

Second, I do not use scratch pad at all. I have daily record wikipage I use to put random bits

-kartal (April 02, 2008, 09:52 AM)

Thanks Kartal: it's a great way to organise stuff that's not necessarily organised so that it can be organised later...

And thanks Justice for your kick start... I've never done anything in AHK before (always used AutoIT myself), but nearly everyone here uses AHK so I'd always thought of getting started (but never really starting  ).

So I've combined Kartal's idea of a day page into your script and bingo: wonderful 

My Attempt at an AHK Script

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. ; WikidJot
2. SetTitleMatchMode, 2
3. #NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
4. SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
5. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
6. #SingleInstance,Force
7.  
8. #j::  ; Win+j hotkey
9. Gui, Add, Text,, Enter note:
10. Gui, Add, Edit, r9 w400 vClip
11. Gui, Add, Button,gButtonOK, &Copy to Clipboard  ; The label ButtonOK (if it exists) will be run when the button is pressed.
12. Gui, Show,, ClipJotter
13. return  ; End of auto-execute section. The script is idle until the user does something.
14. return
15.  
16. ButtonOK:
17. Gui, Submit  ; Save the input from the user to each control's associated variable.
18.  
19. ; run wikidpad or switch to it
20. IfWinNotExist, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad       ; Look for a specific Wiki ("MyWiki.wiki")
21. {
22.   Run, G:\Programmes\WikidPad\Wikidpad.exe  -w G:\Documents\MyWiki\MyWiki.wiki  ; comment this line with correct paths
23.   WinWait, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad, , 5
24. }
25.  
26. ; ThisDay is the page where all "today's" notes will go: it's date based and will appear in the ParentLess View
27. ThisDay := A_DD . "-" . A_MM . "-" . A_YYYY    ' eg: 04-04-2008
28.  
29. WinActivate, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad         ; Use filename just in case other windows are open
30.  
31. Send, {CTRLDOWN}o{CTRLUP}                   ; Open WikiPage
32. WinWait, Open Wiki Word                     ; Wait for the window
33. IfWinNotActive, Open Wiki Word, WinActivate, Open Wiki Word
34. WinWaitActive, Open Wiki Word
35. Send, %ThisDay%                             ; Enter the PageName
36.  
37. WinWaitActive, Open Wiki Word
38. Send, {ENTER}                               ; Close the Open Wiki Page window
39.  
40. WinWaitActive, Create , , 1                 ; Wait to see if the Create Dialog is displayed
41. IfWinActive, Create
42. {
43.   Send, {ALTDOWN}y{ALTUP}                   ; Of course we want to create a new page!
44. }
45.  
46. WinWait, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
47. IfWinNotActive, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad, WinActivate, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
48. WinWaitActive, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
49.  
50. ControlFocus, wxWindowClassNR2              ; Set the focus on the editor in case it's not
51.  
52. Loop
53. {
54.   ; The 3rd section of the Status Bar displays where the cursor is, use this to show when we've reached the end of the page
55.   StatusBarGetText, BeforeText , 3 , MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
56.   Send, {PgDn}
57.   StatusBarGetText, AfterText , 3 , MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
58.  
59.   if AfterText = %BeforeText%
60.     break
61. }
62.  
63. IfWinNotActive, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad, WinActivate, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
64. WinWaitActive, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
65.  
66. ControlFocus, wxWindowClassNR2              ; Set the focus on the editor in case it's not
67.  
68. Send, {ENTER}{ENTER}                        ; Add a couple of lines
69. Send, %Clip%                                ; Insert our text
70.  
71. GuiClose:
72. Gui,Destroy

[kartal]

Perry Mowbray

thansk for the script, I will try it today.

One more method I use is through "launchy" . I made launcy command "todo" which uses my default notepad and sends my path\to\mytodo.wiki as argument to notepad. What I do is press "capslock" to activate launcy and type "todo". This will open "mytodo.wiki" in my default notepad and then I will type the stuff, for example todo:read the book. Since "todo:" is a special keyword in wikipad it will show in special view. In wikipad mytodo wiki page will be activated with the new stuff I just have typed. It works great. And you can use this for any wiki page since all are text based

What I am looking for is actually a way to append text to any file via command line. This way I can just pass any text line to any wiki page without opening any text editor via launcy or farr. Probably there is a way but I have not searched for a solution seriously yet.

[justice]

echo Your text here >> todo.wiki

[kartal]

Justice that adds to bottom of the text, is there a way to add to beginning of the text file?

[brotherS]

Thanks for the review!

I thought about using/trying TiddlyWiki a few times - but didn't yet - and won't use/test WikidPad any time soon, but it's great to know what to expect.

For the time being, I'm using .txt files that I can easily find with Locate (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1385.0) and MindMaps for developing connected thoughts.

[Perry Mowbray]

Justice that adds to bottom of the text, is there a way to add to beginning of the text file?

-kartal (April 03, 2008, 02:28 PM)

You'd have to (using a batch):
1. write your line of text to a new file
2. write the old file to the new file
3. delete the old file
4. rename the new file to the old file

Or easy enough using a script (VBS,JS,AiT,AHK, etc) to use concatenate the two (in the correct order) and overwrite the original file.

But reading your original question I thought you were wanting to write to a specific Wiki page? If you use the Original Gadfly Database Type then each Page/Word is saved as a different file. Then you'd be able to add text to the end of the file.

[kartal]

Perry I use txt based database so yes I can edit the text files. Also Mouser told me in another topic that he had wrote a text appender for FARR, it can add to beginning or ending of a file. I had tested it works great

[justice]

echo your text here >> temp.txt
type todo.wiki >> temp.txt
move temp.txt todo.wiki /-y

or create a batch file add.bat:

@echo off
echo %2 >> temp.txt
type %1 >> temp.txt
move temp.txt %1 /-y

and then call it like: add.bat todo.wiki "your text here"

edit: oops it's /-y to confirm overwriting if the destination file exists.

[kartal]

Here is a nice Wikidpad trick.

You can clone wikidpad with current page (view-clone window)
Now one window will be in edit mode and the other one will be in html preview mode.
When you change your content in edit mode, the next preview window(clone) will also update the content.

[Ampa]

First new beta since January released last weekend...

Jul. 27, 2008 (1.9beta16)

• Option to set color of editor margin.
  See OptionsDialog#*Margin# color*
  
• Option to set color of tree background.
  See OptionsDialog#++++# Tree# options
  
• Option to set length of recent wikis list.
  See OptionsDialog#*Recent# wikis# list# length*
  
• Option to store relative pathes to recent wikis.
  See OptionsDialog#*Store# relative# pathes# to# wikis*
  
• Bug fixed: "Open Wiki Word" dialog was sometimes closed
  when keeping it open makes more sense
  
• Bug reduced(?): Linux: Handling of local file URLs to start
  applications works better
  
• Support for all uppercase and lowercase letters in the
  Unicode set for creating camel-case wiki words independent of OS language

-change log

Wish development was a little faster - I am using Wikidpad a lot, but there are a few shortcomings that I'd like to see resolved.

[Perry Mowbray]

First new beta since January released last weekend...

-Ampa (July 28, 2008, 06:00 AM)

Thanks Ampa! Yes, I'm using WikidPad more and more, and it is somewhat slow, but if it stays slow and steady I'll be happy...

[oversky]

How can I copy a table from excel into Wikidpad?

[Perry Mowbray]

How can I copy a table from excel into Wikidpad?

-oversky (October 10, 2008, 04:48 PM)

Of course the table structure is quite different, eh?

In WikidPad I generally do:

[Select]

<<|
Cell One:One | Cell One:Two
Cell Two:One | Cell Two:Two
>>

So all you'd need to do is to write some VBA to put your Excel cells into that format and put it on the clipboard ready for pasting into WikidPad.

At my last job I wrote a macro to do the same thing but formatted for Confluence, I'll see if I can dig it up...

[Perry Mowbray]

OK, found it and made the few changes for WikidPad...

1. Copy the following code into the WorkBook Code.

Code: Visual Basic [Select]

1. Sub SelectionToWiki()
2.     Dim specialChars As String
3.     specialChars = Chr(7) & Chr(10) & Chr(13) & "\"
4.    
5.     result = ""
6.     For i = 1 To Selection.Rows.Count
7.         'result = result & "| "
8.        For j = 1 To Selection.Columns.Count
9.             Dim cell As Range
10.             Set cell = Selection.Cells(i, j)
11.             cellStr = cell.Value
12.            
13.             ' New Lines don't work in WikidPad Cells so
14.            cellStr = Replace(cellStr, Chr(10), " / ")
15.            
16.             If cell.Font.Bold Then cellStr = "*" & cellStr & "*"
17.             If cell.Font.Italic Then cellStr = "_" & cellStr & "_"
18.             result = result & cellStr & " | "
19.         Next
20.         ' remove the last pipe
21.        result = Left(result, Len(result) - 3)
22.         ' add a line feed
23.        result = result & Chr(13)
24.     Next
25.     ' wrap the table formatting
26.    result = "<<|" & Chr(13) & result & ">>"
27.    
28.     Dim MyDataObj As New DataObject
29.     MyDataObj.SetText result
30.     MyDataObj.putinclipboard
31.    
32.     MsgBox "WikidPad table copied to clipboard: " & Chr(13) & Chr(13) & result
33. End Sub

2. Add a table to the WorkSheet:


3. Select the Range to copy

4. Run the Macro: Alt+F8 and select the Macro and click "Run"

5. Paste the clipboard into a WikidPad Page. It should look like this:

Code: HTML [Select]

1. <<|
2. *Heading Two* | *Heading Two* | *Heading Three*
3. _Two :: Two_ | Two :: Two | Two :: Three
4. Two :: Two | Two :: Two | Two :: Three
5. Three :: Two | Three :: Two | _Three :: Three_
6. Four :: Two / Four :: Two: Line Two | Four :: Two / Four :: Two: Line Two | Four :: Three / Four :: Three: Line Two
7. >>

6. Preview the page. It should look like this: