Scripts and plugins for customizing or adding functionality to WikidPad

Plugins

How to install: Put the source file into "user_extensions/PluginName.py" in the WikidPad directory and restart WikidPad.

• DateFormat : a sample date format used to automatically log my entries.
• ToggleFold: Toggle folding with the keyboard
• BloggerExtension: The Blogger extends the Wikidpad personal wiki to allow creating a simple daily blog entry.
• UrlifyFile: Select a path, press CTRL-U and it will turn into a clickable URL.
• Anchorify: Select any text, press Ctrl-Shift-Z and it will be surrounded with <a href=""></a> HTML tags.
• SubpageCreate: Press CTRL-ALT-S to insert a link to a subpage of the current page.
• WikidpadInterWiki: Use InterWiki syntax in WikidPad
• CoDiFy: Put the selected text in HTML <code></code> tags.
• TagView: a plugin along with a few other functions for using the tag metaphor from within WikidPad
• Rasterizer: display vector image files in HTML preview
• CmdLineIns: Insertion script to execute commandline command and insert output from command
• FileFindIns: Insertion script to insert links to files or images on disk
• AddToBlacklist: Add words to the wiki blacklist with a single keystroke.
• ImdbPlugin: automatically maintain a list of top 250 IMDB movies you haven't seen
• LaTex: Renders math with Latex and dvipng, not tested on Windows
• AutoEval: Automatically evals the page when opened if marked with autoeval property.
• Pic2Plot: Renders PIC graphic language images
• LilyPond: Renders musical fragments using lilypond.
• CsvToTableIns: Inserts a delimited data file as a table
• Groff: Use Groff to render equations, diagrams and text as images.
• EditExtensions : Add some edit functionality to Wikidpad
• NextFootnote : Inserts the next footnote number at the cursors position and at the bottom of the current wiki word
• PrettyCode : Syntax highlighting for many languages using Pygments. Done by user sweinst2000
• CalendarControl: The Calendar Control plug-in provides blog-like date navigation for wikidPad wikis.
• Colorizer: Colorize text selection via font tags in different colors
• ImportTomboy : Allows WikidPad to import notes from TomBoy?.
• OneLevelUp: Moves up one level in the subpages hierarchy
• InsertSymbols2: Pop-up window to insert user-defined symbols in Wikidpad editor
• ReversedHeadings: Plugin reverses size of headings so + is smallest
• NextAndPreviousHeading: Moves cursor to next or previous heading
• MathJaxPlugin: Latex rendering via MathJax
• GrepSearch; Enables searching wikiPad data using grep from within Wikidpad
• PasteHTML: Add the ability to paste formated text directly into Wikidpad
• OverlayParser: Demo wiki language parser that doesn't need update each time the default parser changes

Plugins for WikidPad Developers

• ReloadMenuPlugins: Reloads all plugins. For debugging for plugin developers.
• ListPublicMembers: Lists all public members of WikidPad's objects wiki and editor
• PageAstView: Views the abstract syntax tree (AST) of a page. Helpful for creating/modifying wiki syntax

Scripts

• WikidPadGlobals - the place to customize WikidPad, e.g. the keyboard, extensions or Wiki-syntax.

Indexes

• CategoryIndex snippet
• AbreviationPage snippet
• Dynamic search results: search results and surrounding text inserted in Preview using [:dynsearch: keywords...]
  • http://www.fsavard.com/flow/wikidpad-dynamic-search-results/

Dynamically Generated Todos/properties

• Next Action : dynamically generated 'Next Actions' and 'Waiting For' pages using keywords todo and wait. see GettingThingsDone
• SortedTodos : uses the basic mechanism used in the above script to generate a dynamic list of todos, buts sorts them into user-defined categories
• SortedProperties: a little WikidPadHook? that will list a variety of properties
• LogTask: appends a new "track.log.YEAR.MONTH.DAY.WIKIPAGE: ()" under the "Log" header section.
• Christian Ziemski's Todo thingy, with lots of explanations and screenshots: http://www.ziemski.net/wikidpad/todo_extension.html

Automatically Generated Sections

• SetupAutoSection : creates a area for generated content if it doesnt as yet exist on a page - then clears it and inserts the cursor within the section. can be used by all scripts that need to put a load of output somewhere on a wikipage.

Formatting

• ChangeHeadingLevel: Scripts which will increase/decrease the level of the headings in the selection.
• IsWikiWord : how to determine if a string is a wikiword
• MakeWikiWord : replaces the selected word with its equivalent wrapped in brackets.
• UrlToLink : Converts urls dragged to the editor like file://.../name.txt to [url |name]

Miscellaneous

• OutlookLink: VBA macros for Outlook that generate <Outlook:...> style links to individual email messages. These can be pasted in WikidPad pages as clickable links.

Wiki syntax changes

You should know this page: WikiSyntax

• Reversed heading syntax "++" is a minor heading, "+++" is major a heading and so forth

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Scripts and Plugins Wishlist

• Implement CREOLE http://www.wikicreole.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_(markup)
• Scripts for updating online public wikis from your wikidpad.
• Scripts for VisualizingTheWiki? - view/browse the graph of your wiki - was thinking about something like ConnectedText?'s Navigator : http://www.connectedtext.com/screenshots2.html
• Versioned Wiki (Mercurial, SVN, git?)
• plug-in for inkscape http://www.inkscape.org so you can swiftly create some drawings while making your notes
• Allow pasting of pictures into WikidPad (on paste action - picture in clipboard should be saved under random name in 'storage' folder, and then link to it should be inserted at current cursor location) [ this is very useful for screenshot pastes ] <- NOTE: made (somewhat) possible in latest 1.9 Beta versions...
• Do not autolink WikiWords (i.e. option to use [forced links] only) <- NOTE: Made possible by setting 'camelCaseWordsEnabled: false' attribute...

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