[tw] Re: What are the advantages/disadvantages of tags vs fields vs slices?

2010-03-05 Thread AlanBCohen
what do you mean by 'sections'? Is this the same as 'part' from PartTiddlerPlugin or a different construct? How do you name and delimit a section if it isn't the same as a 'part'? What is the syntax to reference them via tiddler? Alan On Mar 3, 8:15 am, Mark S. throa...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm

[tw] Re: What are the advantages/disadvantages of tags vs fields vs slices?

2010-03-03 Thread Saverio
On Mar 3, 8:15 am, Mark S. throa...@yahoo.com wrote: Slices and sections are a convenient, natural way to enter tiddler- specific data. You don't need to modify your tiddler template (though you can) or get extra plugins for manipulating them (though you can). Slices are single lines of

[tw] Re: What are the advantages/disadvantages of tags vs fields vs slices?

2010-03-03 Thread Saverio
On Mar 3, 8:15 am, Mark S. throa...@yahoo.com wrote: Tags are useful to show relationships (parent-child) between tiddlers, I think tags are ideal for attributes of tiddlers. To use them for relationships, other than the simplest and most generic of relationships, is stretching their

[tw] Re: What are the advantages/disadvantages of tags vs fields vs slices?

2010-03-03 Thread Måns
 But how then can one modify the values of the slices in a *controlled* way, ie. a dropdown of available projects with an option to create a new project, or a dropdown of other tasks, without just editing the tiddler and free texting everything? As I mentioned - Eric's GridPlugin is very good

[tw] Re: What are the advantages/disadvantages of tags vs fields vs slices?

2010-03-03 Thread Mark S.
Relationships *are* a type of attribute. Various projects (TW Notes, Treeview) already use them to construct parent-child trees of information. Technically speaking, whether you use fields, tags, or slices probably makes little difference to performance. No part of TiddlyWiki creates a real

[tw] Re: What are the advantages/disadvantages of tags vs fields vs slices?

2010-03-03 Thread Saverio
On Mar 3, 9:54 am, Måns humam...@gmail.com wrote:  But how then can one modify the values of the slices in a *controlled* way, ie. a dropdown of available projects with an option to create a new project, or a dropdown of other tasks, without just editing the tiddler and free texting

[tw] Re: What are the advantages/disadvantages of tags vs fields vs slices?

2010-03-03 Thread Saverio
On Mar 3, 10:36 am, Mark S. throa...@yahoo.com wrote: Relationships *are* a type of attribute. Very interesting! I see it from the other end - attributes are one type of relationship, which I define as triads of [source, relationship type, target] - ex. [George H Bush isTheFatherOf, George W