TiddlyImage

Beautifully compose & curate visual narratives

• Designed so that you can easily collate, compose and display digital resources

• View it anywhere. Share it online or keep it private, your choice!

• Checkout the vision

Envisaged uses

• Curation & presentation of image, audio & video collections
• Storyboarding your creative vision
• A tool for creative learning & expression
• An open-source TiddlyWiki showcase app

Goals

• Intuitive, slick interface facilitating batch upload, grouping and annotation of resources
• Bulk import/export/backup via JSON files ✔️ Solved by TiddlyWiki core ✔️
• Create plugin to extend TiddlyWiki file importing functionality
• Designed to accommodate diverse file types; image, audio, video and more
• Easily construct themed narratives from related resources
• Keep responsive performance whilst managing a sizeable collection
• Auto-composing narratives and compellingly present the data
  • Display random or filtered narratives at intervals.
  • Visual guessing game

Call out

• Do you have the skills to help build it?
• Lets collaborate!
• Code contributions and comments are welcome 😍

Roadmap

• Prepare sample images for ease of experiment See here
• Create GitHub repo
• Build first (limited functionality) demo and host on GitHub Pages
• Callout for skills & help
• Explore for plugins & snippets which solve aspects of desired functionality
• Build necessary interfaces & functions
• Build a plugin to extend TiddlyWiki file import functionality :
  • Drag & drop image files & urls with...
    • Option to store files or fetch url resources to a local-but-external folder
      • Important to prevent the wiki file from ballooning
    • Keep reference to sources
      • Tiddlers to be named with the filename or source url
    • Ability to accommodate various user scenarios
      • remote-url-hosted-images
      • local-but-external-images
      • images-embedded-in-the-wiki (Possible but inadvisable)
    • Option to group related resource tiddlers
      • Allocate a group uuid to a tiddler field
      • Permit multi-group membership
      • Add/remove a tiddler to/from an existing group
      • Code to assign a friendly name to the group
        • Keep a list of {friendly-name : uuid} key:value pairs for reference
    • Capability to parse file names for date & time and subject matter
      • Facilitates sorting & selection
    • Option to generate & export the JSON pertinent
      • The current input episode
      • A selected narrative
    • Interface to auto-generate visual narrative tiddlers from a membership group
      • This is the uuid superpower
• Permit easy editing of narrative tiddler
  • Backpropogate changes to source tiddler
  • Abstract away from the user the complexity of fields, uuids etc.
  • Drag & drop to rearrange elements of a narrative tiddler
• Develop engaging data presentations
  • Tiddlers to auto display rotating narratives
  • Develop interactive guessing game
    • Present images
    • Match user guesses to actual tags
    • Keep score, how close were you?

And then...

• Presentation mode
  • Iterate through elements of a narrative
  • Control the flow, dwell time, autoplay etc.
• Screencasting
• Morph into a distributed, collaborative, sharing, multi-user, narrative-led wiki?
• Blockchain derived content licensing. Revenue to the creator?
• A source of labelled data for machine learning?