Craig from Calgary said this (you must have clicked "reply to author" instead of "reply"):
Dave, > in it, the "showReminders" macro will not pick it up until I open the > tiddler to edit, but then it picks it up after I close the edit > tiddler. The beauty of external tiddlers is that they do not load until needed, i.e. your TiddlyWiki is smaller and loads faster. The downside is that your TiddlyWiki will not know anything about the contents of an external tiddler until you open it. For systemConfig tiddlers this means you can "load on demand". If you include an external tiddler in [[DefaultTiddlers]] it will load with your TiddlyWiki. You could use http://www.tiddlytools.com/#LoadTiddlersPlugin and http://www.tiddlytools.com/#TemporaryTiddlersPlugin to load external tiddlers when your TiddlyWiki is loaded and *not* save them with your TiddlyWiki when you save it. In this reminders should work alright. But if you really want to maintain those tiddlers through ArchivePlugin, I think you could create a tiddler in your TiddlyWiki that references the archived tiddler and put your reminder on it. You will still have the extra step of loading (and executing, if applicable) the archived tiddler but the local tiddler will handle the reminder behavior for you. I'm keen for a more elegant solution. Not being a fan of redundant content, I do not like having two of something when one should suffice. TiddlyWiki is an excellent framework for good information architecture and design. I use it to help keep me on the best practices "straight and narrow". YMMV. Thanks Craig, I tried putting the Archived tiddler and the tiddler with the <<tiddler reminders.txt>> statement in the default tiddler and that didn't work. The LoadTiddlersPlugin doesn't load an individual text file as far as I can tell. I also tried loading the Archived tiddler from itself (i.e. referencing the current TW) to load it that way, and that didn't work either. Re the suggestion about putting a reminder on another tiddler that references the Archived tiddler, that kind of defeats the point: The goal is to be able to add a line like <<reminder day:25 month:12 year:2009 title:"Christmas Day">> to the end of a text file called reminders.txt while the TW is not open, then have all the reminders in that file read when I go to open the TW 3 hours later. I'm wondering if there's a way to make an inline script that essentially does the same thing that opening up a tiddler for editing, and closing it again does. That would "activate" the Archived tiddler so that it could be ready for the reminder macro to read it. It could even be a script in a tiddler tagged "systemConfig" so that it would happen on loading. I guess the first question is: What actually is changing in the TW when an edited archived tiddler is closed again? I'll try looking at the ArchivePlugin to see if there's anything apparent. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
