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4Notes on making a cross-tool drag and drop capability.
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6What if you could open your [[Digital Garden]] / Second Brain / Spatial Canvas / Notes website in a browser, and open any other web page, and drag and drop content into your own site?
7## TiddlyWiki Drag and Drop
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9[[TiddlyWiki]] has had this as a built in functionality for a long time. Founder [[Jeremy Ruston]] demos it here:
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11<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/axgRphzRPMU?si=yNeJTy5o2k125UDa" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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13This showcases two TiddlyWiki websites which are aware of the native “tiddler” format and so can import and drop in tiddler links within those systems.
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15## Format
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17An agreed upon JSON format with a subset of Markdown or similar.
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19* URL source
20* link if the resource has a link
21* Author
22* Date clipped
23* Publish date
24* Title
25* “Note” / clipping body
26* Excerpt/ Description with known character limit. Suggestion: 300 to fit within [[ATProtocol]] microblogging lexicon
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28This might actually be relevant around [[Farcaster#Frames]] too — we should think about these things as social objects. Having [[OpenGraph]] header meta elements would be good when an entire page is being clipped.
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30Could [[ATProtocol]] Lexicon be a useful definition?
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32## Interop
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34Can we make a format and some widget code that enables this for any website?
35### Git-based Static Sites
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37This website is built in the [[Digital Garden Jekyll Template]] with a bunch of my own mostly display customizations.
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39Since it’s stored in a git repo on GitHub, it might be possible to accept such a drag and drop and then send it as a PR or an issue where I could accept and merge it.
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41### Targets
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43[[TiddlyWiki]] - can we make an adapter to accept TiddlyWiki and then transform it? A TW plugin could accept (or produce!) a new Note Clips format.
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45[[TLDraw]]
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47[[Obsidian]] - don’t know if Obsidian Publish has APIs? Would probably need to be done as a plugin which is slightly less fun than doing it between two web browser windows.
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49[[Subconscious]] - this is kind of perfect for Noosphere and we should also talk to them about their IPLD structures.
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51iOS / Android Share sheet format - what kind of structured data is possible with share sheets?
52## Features
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54Ideally you’re clipping these notes and getting metadata that the source website is giving you, with some minimal set.
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56[[Quotebacks]] are a nice display format.
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58It would be nice to enable [[transclusion]] but that likely requires the source website to be running something as well.
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60A spatial canvas / node view might add something interactive. Kind of like my [[notes]] node view. This would be amazing if you could surf across websites
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62Webring vibes?