Is there a way to specify a template to be used with the 'New Here' button?
I am currently using a button with this code
$buttonNew Tiddler
$action-sendmessage $message=tm-new-tiddler title=New
text=bottomOfTiddler {{!!title}} blurb= tags=currentTiddler/
/$button
which works unless the
I decided to see if it was possible to make some sort of game using only
the core tiddlywiki with no plugins or javascript. I made a very bare bones
zork/interactive fiction type game. It is currently the simplest thing I
could make and claim it was a game, but I may add on to it in the future.
Sorry, I didn't actually change the default tiddler in that one. This link
is for the one that actually starts out where it should.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzM-cR6_6xxWd29VZWhVNjlrcmc/view?usp=sharing
On Thursday, November 13, 2014 6:37:27 PM UTC-7, Jed Carty wrote:
I decided to see
of explanation
for why the character tries weird stuff and just make them mostly
incompetent/oblivious. I am hoping that doesn't bother anyone.
https://googledrive.com/host/0BzM-cR6_6xxWZkpSb1FFUkhMNGM
On Thursday, November 13, 2014 6:37:27 PM UTC-7, Jed Carty wrote:
I decided to see
I have been trying to figure out how to do something similar to this using
tiddlywiki. He articulates the idea much better than I had, but I have a
tiddlywiki that I am building for my phd dissertation (in electrical
engineering) that has all the background for math going back to algebra and
I made this so that some of my friends with absolutely no coding experience
could use some of the better features of TW5 without having to learn much.
I am hopefully going to continue updating it as I learn new things. There
isn't really anything here that isn't available in plenty of other
Thank you! I have a few cases where I have 7 or 8 different uses of $set to
properly organize lists. This is awesome and will save me a lot of trouble.
On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:19:14 PM UTC-7, Danielo RodrÃguez wrote:
Hello,
I find that people experiences lots of problems when using
Something that may work for the original question of opening a random
tiddler when a button is pressed, and something that I would like to see if
possible, is a simple RNG that gets called by a message (like the 'throw
the dice' button that can be called by a widget message). That way to
I put in a pull request to update the variables in wikitext tiddler that
adds examples of when $(name)$ name and name are used.
From what I understand you use $(var)$ when you set a variable outside of a
macro and then use that variable in the macro and var is for setting a
variable and using
I think that we could try making a public tiddlywiki on tiddlyspot and make
a list of topics people want documentation for the most, then collect
explanations and examples from people and hopefully get someone who is good
at technical writing or design to collect everything into a nice tiddler
Here is an updated version of the zork-like game with the mostly complete
authoring tool added. Click the button in the upper left to open the
editing tiddler, everything I have designed so far can be done my filling
in forms.
This has actually been much more useful than I expected as far as
I have been trying to find a way to do this as well. I think that there may
be a way to do this using the updated set widget in the prerelease and
something like the combination lock in the Safe tiddler in the interactive
fiction thing I am working on (http://zorklike.tiddlyspot.com/). I
Jeremy, Tobias,
I like this idea. It would be particularly useful for people like me who
can't really spell to have easier review than through the github process
(mild dyslexia means I have to either spend time checking every word or
deal with lots and lots of spelling errors, this generally
I think using the old documentation list would be best so that people
writing documentation wouldn't be spamming this list and wouldn't need to
dig through things here to find proposed changes. I submitted a post to
that list suggesting using the method discussed here, but it needs to be
Tobias,
Your first example seems like it would require some sort of type checking,
I have no idea how you would achieve that or if it is really possible.
For the second part I think that you could get that functionality with
something like the reveal widget that is able to send widget messages
I made a javascript macro that will return a random number in a given range
using a given step size, I would like to be able to pass the output of
$count filter='[all[]]'/ to the macro as a parameter. Everything I have
tried results in the whole thing being passed as a string instead of the
That is still passing $count filter='[all[]]'/ as a string. It is the
same thing as this code will set myField to the string $count
filter='[all[]]'/ not the numeric value.
\define getCount() $count filter='[all[]]'/
$button$action-setfield $field=myField $value=getCount/Set
field/$button
If
Thank you!
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Erwin,
I was hoping to restart the dedicated documentation mailing list trying out
the ideas discussed here
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/F0dnmWrOuxg
The other mailing list is
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tiddlywikidocs and I put up a post
briefly discussing
Jeremy,
Yes, that conversation was what made me want to look into this. The problems
you mentioned happen of course but if you trigger the macro using a button
store the macro output in a state tiddler then you have a limited context where
random number generation works. A widget message or
I like the idea but there are so many ways that tiddlywiki is used that it
would be difficult to make a collection of generic tiddlers.
Given a specific use then it could work well. Although it would need a way to
submit tiddlers that may require a dedicated maintainer.
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I have updated the authoring tool. It should be ready to be used, there is
probably a lot of content that can be added that I will work on as I get
around to it, but it will only be things like allowing variable length
combination locks and similar small changes.
I also changed the demo game
This is mainly in response to this previous thread:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/TiddlyWiki/random|sort:date/tiddlywiki/4tyLh7pOQsg/BHc1Fs1TJ6oJ
I made some quick modifications to the action-setfield widget so that the
new widget will set the indicated field to a random number. It
There is an example here that uses a plugin I wrote that does what the
original poster wanted. Unfortunately you have to manually set the range
for the random numbers, but other than that it works as expected.
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#RandVal%20Plugin
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You use action-setfield to set the fields you want and it will create a new
tiddler without opening it. Examples of this are in the contacts part here
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Contacts:Contacts
If you look at the code for the create contact button in this tiddler
I wrote a widget that lets the example I linked to open random tiddlers
from dynamically generated lists.
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Depending on how complex the template you want to use is you can get
similar behaviour by setting a bunch of fields like here
http://zorklike.tiddlyspot.com/#NewEventTemplate
I vaguely remember stumbling on something I think is a bug where I had the
form change the value of fields in the
It has worked on a mac, Linux and Android for me. I think it should work
anywhere you can run Firefox.
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That is a good idea. I would probably use it as a permanently visible thin
column (small enough to fit in the space there anyway) with icons that
either open pop-ups/tiddlers or other user defined functions.
Or perhaps something like the tabbed table of contents that normally only
shows the
In order to make a version that is very useful or flexible than it will
take a lot of work, but the discussions about the learning curve for
tiddlywiki and the various experiments and examples I have seen made me
want to try making an edition of tiddlywiki that doesn't require any
knowledge of
I am not sure what you are referring to specifically, if you mean the table
of contents on the right side than Tobias Beer has a good reference here (
http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#Table%20Of%20Contents%20In%20Sidebar ) or I
wrote a brief explanation that is more focused on usage rather than how
I have the feeling that between the United States, the UK and Australia you
could probably find crude meanings for over half of the words in the
English language.
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I have updated the demo a bit. I plan on putting together an edition that
just displays the Dashboard tiddler without the system tabs or the edit and
close buttons with some other minor changes, like changing the introduction
message to reflect what the wiki does and removing visible tags.
If you have a lot of pictures or if they are relatively large then linking to
them would probably be better. You can have them in either the same folder as
the wiki or in a folder in the same location as the wiki, I do that because it
keeps things more organized. The same can be done for audio
I haven't been able to find a way to allow a tiddler to be tagged with all
of its ancestors in the table of contents. The specific example I have is
in the wiki I use for my dissertation notes I have a Citations section, at
the moment I have all of my citations simply tagged with 'Citations', I
Oh, yeah. The wiki they are hosted on has a lot of other things in it, I
need to strip out just the basic things needed for the dashboard stuff and
host that on tiddlyspot. The dashboard things don't require anything other
than the core TiddlyWiki functions. I probably should have said that
Here is a version with all the pieces I made:
http://nolearningrequired-full.tiddlyspot.com/
Some of them aren't going to be very useful. I am not sure if there will be
any users that would need/want the make or edit tiddlers part.
Here is the contacts database part by itself, after I made it I
If we can get the let widget or something equivalent added to the core than
this sounds like something useful to add to the premade/no learning collection
of editions I am hoping to make. That is if you don't mind you work or ideas
used like that.
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The swarms or tiddlers for accomplishing single tasks is hopefully the next
step after the simple single application premade/no learning editions I am
working on. Since the idea came up here, how do people like the interface and
what sort of applications should be added? Or should I drop this
I had to edit the plugin to have it include matlab for my wiki, you can
download the highlightjs files from the main site and copy/paste into the
plugin tiddlers. I remember it being annoying because of some formating issue.
I don't remember the details, but it is possible.
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Tobias,
That is a good point about needing a distinction between a plugin and a
swarm is probably important. I imagine that there are probably many
distinctions like that that may be important.
Mat,
Currently that page is just a demonstration of the different functions. I
am hoping to
In the hangout someone had asked about adding a mailto: link to the emails
in the contacts part of the no learning required wiki. I didn't get a
chance to say it in the hangout, but clicking on the email in the contact
listing should work now.
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I have put together plugins/swarms (I like the swarm name, I hope it
catches on.) for the dashboard and contacts database here
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#How%20to%20add%20to%20the%20Dashboard
The problem is that when you import them the tiddlers inside the plugin
aren't accessible in the
I like the idea, I am not sure how hard implementing a help mode would be,
but the tab on the sidebar would be straightforward enough. The question
would be what sort of help should be provided there or how it is presented.
Do we have any people with a graphic design or technical writing
I am not able to find any way that it breaks using the main tiddlywiki site.
Do you have a very long list of results? I think I remember Jeremy saying
that in some cases lists are truncated to something like 100 entries.
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Aside from the plugins on the main site I don't think that it would be easy
to maintain a list like that. http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#Plugins is
probably your best bet unless you want to go find plugins and maintain a
dedicated list. As for finding new versions, I think that the plugins on
the
This is actually a problem that I am trying to work out myself. The best I
have found is to use a template that is recursively called in a list, that
is a list widget that uses a template that contains a list widget and uses
itself as a template. I used that to make the table of contents
Sorry, I got that almost completely wrong, here is the solution now that I
actually tested it:
This would be the tiddler that has the list:
--
$set name=regExp value='regexp:tags[action]'
$list filter='[tag[Tasks]regexp:tags[Action]]' template=TemplateTest
/$list
/$set
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I finally figured out what was wrong with the sumfield part of this plugin,
so here it is: http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#MathyThing%20Plugin
At the moment it contains two things: First it has an action widget version
of the count widget that stores the value in a specified field instead of
Unless I am missing something, and I think this only is a problem with the
tabbed toc, the tabbed toc macro can only allows you to specify a tag that
defines the to level of your toc hierarchy, but just using that one tag doesn't
list tiddlers in plugins.
toc-tabbed-internal-nav
The regexp was there because the original question was looking for tiddlers
that had tags with the prefix Action, that wasn't part of my problem. My
problem, and I think the problem in the original question is that while I
can generate a list of a tags descendants to an arbitrary depth I can't
I tried putting the Google Analytics plugin on inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com
and zorklike.tiddlyspot.com but on both the analytics site and the
webmaster site it says that the code isn't working. It has the status
'tracking not installed' on the analytics site and it says that the code
seem
I am trying to start using data tiddlers more in my wiki and I have set up
a collection of acronyms here ( http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Dashboard
). I would like to be able to make the search function in that use the
regex filter instead of requiring the exact name the way it does now. Is
Thank you! Trying to figure that out has been driving me crazy for a few
days.
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Do filters get executed in order? I hadn't encountered or noticed it
before, but rearranging the filter breaks the output,
[indexes[][$:/data/Acronyms]regexp:title[(?i)$(thisSearch)$]] doesn't work.
I had assumed that each operation was done independently and then the
intersection of the
Jeremy,
Thank you, that makes much more sense now and probably makes the filters
more powerful. Now I just need to find places where I can take advantage of
it.
Tobias,
I would never have thought of removing the indicies like that, thanks!
Think logs, comments... all those kinds of things.
I am not sure what the point is in this context. Just scraping all the
tiddlers from TW sites without context is going to result in a largely
meaningless pile of things. Like you pulled the tiddler 'Add a reset
button that clears the form inputs without you having to make a new
whatever with
Do you want to use this to keep temporary notes or do you want to create a
permanent tiddler from the input? I don't know exactly what you want but
unless I misunderstand you completely I should have most of what you are
looking for. You would probably want to use something like
Oh, for each reveal or other state you use in the same tiddler use
thisTempTiddler number where you increment the number for each new
state you need. So if you had a second reveal widget in the example above
you would use thisTempTiddler 2 for the reveal state tiddler.
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After a bit of poking to make this (
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Quick%20Notes ) I noticed two things,
first the macro should be:
\define thisTempTiddler(stateNumber)
$:/temp/$(someName)$$stateNumber$
\end
with no space in the title, or there can be strangeness. Also, if you are
going to
If you use multiple action-sendmessage widgets that each use the tm-add-tag
message you can add as many tags as you want. Since the implementation of the
action widgets the core can do everything that the newtiddler widget does. You
could also use a template that has the desired tags and the
To fit with the structure of windows you could put it in a folder inside your
documents folder. I have mine in my dropbox folder so that it syncs across all
my devices. I don't use windows often but I don't think it likes you changing
things in program files.
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Now that 5.1.6 is out the plugins listed here (
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Dashboard ) should work with any wiki
using version 5.1.6 or newer. They are all made to work with the dashboard
set up, but none of them require it. You can just get the toc manager and
use the
Manage Table of
It sounds like you want to use templates. You can make a tiddler that has
all of the things that will be the same in the tiddlers you are going to
create (in the example below this tiddler would be called TiddlerTemplate)
and make a button like this:
$button message=tm-new-tiddler
I don't think that the filter in your reset macro does anything. The set
widget doesn't do anything permanent, it creates variables that exist only
inside the set widget in which they are defined. The action-setfield widget
is the one that actually changes stored values. With that said, you are
It isn't exactly a new-here button, but in my wikis I generally have a
macro that I put at the bottom of (almost) every tiddler that has a button
with pretty much the same functionality. Then if the tiddler is transcluded
the button is still there. The code I use for the marco is here
why can't I just itterate through all the fields of the current tiddler
and set them to null?
The quick answer is because it hasn't been implemented yet.
A slightly longer answer is that the list widget shouldn't have any side
effects because those side effects would happen each time the
Using the things Rich told me in the hangout today and the macros Astrid
made I put together a simple interface for building the hangout notes (Or
just notes for any youtube video). There are a few things that I should
probably include, like clicking on the time stamps changing the video in
And I should actually give the link
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Video%20timestamp%20test
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Does normal transclusion not work in that case? As long as the fields have
the values stored in them (as opposed to a reference to the value) than
just d1={{!!foo}} should assign the value in the field foo to d1 in the
macrocall. I keep running into things like this myself and I am wrong every
I am glad I could help!
Unfortunately that little bit of information is tucked away in
http://tiddlywiki.com/#TextReference it should probably get a much more
visible place considering how useful it is.
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You can use any of my stuff.
I like the update.
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I am not sure why works, but this I think is something like what the
original question is about. It works anyway.
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Make%20url
select the page number using the select widget and then the url will bring
you to the selected page.
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Unless I am misunderstanding what you are asking It is working for me. I
have a very simple thing here
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Test%20tiddler
Also I didn't know that was possible. Thanks!
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It looks like it can be a bit simpler by cutting out the second macro in
the previous example.
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Concatenating%20text%20to%20make%20dynamic%20URLs
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It doesn't work on my other wiki that uses version 5.1.5. I know that there
were some changes made to the TOC macros for 5.1.6 so that may be it if you
are using one of the older versions.
If that is the problem, and you don't want to/can't upgrade, than importing
the tiddler
While looking into the string concatenating problem mentioned here
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/wui6E_fiXcA I made a
version of the video annotation things that Astrid and Rich were working on
here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/5FugIFRgYLs that
only
Stephan,
I can't find a way to make that search indices of data tiddlers. I can
probably change things around so that I am using fields instead, in which
case that will solve that part of the problem.
So, thanks! It looks like you gave me a solution. I would still like to
find out if it is
It looks great!
Just remember that my tool is a work in progress and I will hopefully be
changing things around so that the timestamp tiddlers are named using the
human readable names instead of the youtube ids. The current timestamps
should still be searchable after the change, but I don't
It shouldn't be too hard to have a template that uses a table and some divs
to put two text editing fields next to each other. It could have a reveal
widget so that when reviewing you can hide the notes and just see the
questions. It would be a very simple implementation and I am sure that it
I put together a quick demo of one way this could work here
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Note%20Taking%20Test
It doesn't have any searching ability or anything yet, but the notes and
questions have fields indicating the class and date they are from, so
searching etc. can be added later.
Jeremy,
Thank you! I managed to put some things together that work.
My fix for using time to give each note and question a unique name gives
each note a title that shows the time the previous note was created because
it doesn't look like you can set a fields value and then use the new value
You didn't miss anything obvious, but you need an extra step. I stumbled on
this mostly by accident but you need to use a set widget and then reference
the variable in a macro like this:
\define genurl() http://somesite/$(url_part)$
$set name=url_part value={{!!somefield}}
a href=genurl
Here is some reference stuff I wrote up for it:
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Concatenating%20text%20to%20make%20dynamic%20URLs
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Compared to what LaTeX can do the KaTeX plugin has very few features. As
far as I know you can only typeset equations, and even those have to be
relatively basic compared to what a full version of LaTeX can do. Unless
there has been a recent change you can't import any packages or use
anything
Or the things I wrote up are in http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Templates
because that is where it would make sense to have it.
I may need coffee.
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I like how you have that wiki set up. I may borrow some of the ideas.
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To have a list link to something other than what is displayed the easiest
way is:
$list filter=someFilter
a href={{!!linkDestination}}$view field=title//abr
/$list
You could also use a template tiddler:
$list filter=someFilter template=someTemplate
/$list
where the tiddler someTemplate
You may just need to import the tiddler, save the wiki and then reload before
the plugin will be available. I have run into imported plugins being listed as
'unknown' but the worked anyway.
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I think that there are bibtex to json converters around, that conversion would
make tiddlywiki happier and simplify editing entries on a wiki. I don't think
it would be too terribly hard to make a display template that takes json data
and displays bibtex formatted output that can be copy/pasted
Erwan,
I have only had a tiny bit of experience with bash and I have no idea where
to start, even looking at your code on GitHub. So it would awesome if you
did the coding.
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This looks awesome!
I will certainly find it useful, both for my own notes and for helping to
make math textbooks.
One of the most annoying parts of using TiddlyWiki for my thesis reference
is that I had to use SVG images for multi-line equations.
Does it require an internet connection? I am
I think that a dedicated mailing list would be good. A weekly list of
updates broken down by either update type or wiki/author would be very
useful for keeping up with what is going on since I think that people
mainly post to this group when there is a problem and not as much when they
make
I haven't found a way to do it, but I haven't found a time when I couldn't do
the same thing using action-setfield.
If you want to silently make a tiddler using a templat, use action setfield to
set the name of the template, it will create a copy of the template with the
new name.
do you
Adding a new wiki worked, but it only used the first word of the title with
spaces.
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Sorry, I missed some stuff for that one.
In the my-toc-selective-expandable macro you need to replace the 4th line
with
$list filter=[all[current]toc-link[no]] variable=ignore
emptyMessage=my-toc-linked-selective-expandable-body tag:'$tag$'
sort:'$sort$' itemClassFilter:'$itemClassFilter$'
The macros for the table of contents are defined in the tiddler
$:/core/macros/toc
The macro for toc-selective-expandable is:
\define toc-selective-expandable(tag,sort:,itemClassFilter)
ol class=tc-toc toc-selective-expandable
$list filter=[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$tag$]!has[draft.of]$sort$]
Erwan,
I that if something like this could be added to the community search that
would be awesome. I guess what may be best for what I want is for me to
modify what you have made so that it only takes tiddlers with a specific
tag and then display them in a way similar to how I have in the link
and are being treated as part of an html tag. If you have a space after the
leading it should display normally. You say not to tell you to use html
escape characters, but it is the html doing it. Your other option is to make
macros like this
\define lt() $text text=''/
\define gt() $text
This seems relevant:
The community search lists the last time one of the wikis there was modified.
https://rawgit.com/erwanm/tw-aggregator/master/tw-community-search.html
It hasn't been implemented yet, but there are plans to expand the community
search to include plug-ins and possibly
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