Part of the reason that tiddlers aren't documented is that mGSD is just a 
specific type of TiddlyWiki. If you go to http://tiddlywiki.org, there are 
better explanations of TW and tiddlers.

Basically a Tiddler is just a data object with a title, text content, and a 
list of tags. The text content can be text with some rudimentary wiki 
formatting, or it can be Javascript.  If a tiddler has certain tags, then 
mGSD may do special things when displaying it.  Like if a tiddler has 
"Project" among its tags, then some JavaScript from the TagDashboards 
tiddler is used to display actions, ticklers, and references tagged with 
that project, and the TitleButtons tiddler is used to display the controls 
right above that.

You can look at all the tiddlers and their JavaScript source right in a TW. 
 However one thing that makes it harder is that most of the built-in 
tiddlers have the excludeSearch tag, so they don't show up in searches.  If 
you go to the sidebar --> More... --> TW --> All, then ALL the tiddlers are 
listed there and you can search that with your Browser's search function. 
 It still can take some guesswork to find the tiddlers you want, so you're 
right that we should all pitch in and keep adding documentation.

You can also view the page source in your Browser and search that and 
especially since you are an "old Java geezer" who is comfortable with Linux, 
it's not going to be that hard to explore that a bit.  I don't even know 
Java or javascript and I was able to make the customizations that were most 
important to me. If you do customize, make sure to document your work, since 
it will likely be wiped out in an upgrade (until you write the customization 
that fixes that and share it with us!!!)

I haven't really cracked the sequence nut, except with the big 
pending/queued customization I already told you about.  For me, mGSD is 
really a "rememberance agent" so I can clear my mind of stuff outside my 
current tasks.  However I don't really forget about the sequences, so it's 
not that important to me to let this agent take care of remembering 
sequences. 

If I finish all the Next Actions in my active projects, I just cruise the 
list of Pending Actions, and it's easy for me to see which ones should be 
promoted to Next.  I'm not saying other people wouldn't need that but given 
the nature of my work and my mind, that's not an important feature for me.

What I am considering working on is Recurring Projects.  I added a 
"Recurring" checkbox which was simple enough, but what I would like to do is 
add a built-in tickler for them to be reawakened, and also to make sure all 
of their Completed actions can't be purged but instead are de-completed when 
a recurring Project is made active again.  Unfortunately this project is 
marked "Future" in my mGSD.

Welcome aboard!

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