Tiddlywiki: embed/link to .msg

Question

I'd like to use Tiddlywiki for a personal knowledge base. In my work flow a lot of content comes in as Outlook emails threads.

Is there a smart way to refer to this content without fully copying over the whole text to each and every tiddler manually?

Maybe saving Outlook mail thread as .msg file, placing it locally and referring to that file might work. The tiddler then may hold some basic summy, but whole detail content lies in the .msg file.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You've essentially answered your own question. Alternatively, use gmail or the likes to get proper links that only you can follow.

Answer 2

I am in such case (more struggling with TiddlyWiki, which is great but lacks documentation currently). I ended up using the outlook:oid url-style that opens the mail in outlook. However, it's difficult to retrieve a mail oid, especially as this id changes when copying (and maybe moving) the mail to other folders/pst files.

In my case, I use some outlook mailbox parser that detect specific markup (categories, actions), and take appropriate actions (move them, create the outlook:oid link somewhere, etc). It's ugly but does the job.