TBX 5CS Copying and Exploding Rich Text into Tinderbox
| Level | Introduction |
| Published Date | 2/8/25 |
| Revision | 1 |
| Tags | 5cs Of Knowledge Management School, BareBones Software, Discount, Explode, Identity Praxis, Markdown, Note-Taking, Obsidian, Personal Knowledge Management Course, Regular Expression, Tools for Thought, 5CKM, 5Cs of Knowledge Management, Eastgate, Mark Berstein, Michael Becker, Tinderbox |
| Video Length | 12:57 |
| Video URL | https://youtu.be/CM9o442FkiE |
| Example File | TBX 5Cs L Copying and Exploding Rich Text in Tinderbox 08FEB25.tbx (274.0 KB) |
| TBX Version | 10 |
| Instructor | Michael Becker |
In this 5Cs Tinderbox lesson, in response to a question raised during the Mastering Tinderbox course I’m teaching (see below), I go over three methods on how you can copy and paste rich formatted text from a web page (or Google Docs, MS Word, or similar app) into Tinderbox and then how you can explode the text into individual notes. There are many reasons why you might want to do this, a primary one being that you want to take notes on the items in the outline of the copied text. The three methods I explain are 1) paste with manual delimiters, 2) paste unformatted text (aka paste special), and 3) use Obsidian as a pass-through to convert the formatted text to markdown (a popular shorthand for writing HTML-styled text). In this lesson, I also explain how we can use regular expressions (regex) to explode the text, such as exploding at digits (\d). I also show how we can use BBEDIT, a text editing tool, to see the hidden characters embedded in the text, which can help us with using regex to explode the text. In this case, there were tabs (\t) in the text.
Tinderbox Community and the 5Cs Of Knowledge Management: Mastering Tinderbox Courses and Templates
If you’d like to learn more about Tinderbox, your first step is to get involved with the Tinderbox community: https://forum.eastgate.com/ (participation in the community is free).
If you’ve been a Tinderbox user for years or just getting started and want to fast-track your use of Tinderbox, you might consider taking one of my Tinderbox courses: Homepage | 5Cs of Knowledge Management (there are also templates available). Here’s a 10% YouTube discount code: YTMASTERINGTINDERBOX.