TT, I am a bit late to this thread and have not read it all, May I respectfully suggest the value of the title is something you have chosen to set in your example, it is you who has diminished its value by giving it a numeric title. If you really wanted to number them you could do so in a separate field. Also in your example if the content of the text is "When Willowy goes for donuts the cicadas sing. In harmony" it could actually be your title.
Not withstanding what I have said, if the title is less important to you, or you want to automate this aspect so you do not need to "think about it" that is OK as well, you just need to recognise you are forgoing something when you do so. In this case you are using the title for its other primary function, it is operating as the "Primary key" to a piece of data. This still maps very well to TiddlyWikis philosophy, of the tiddler being the primary unit of information. As I have stated before I think one of Tiddlywiki's key features is the "Primary Key" to data by being the title is "at eye level", "Directly in your face", "front and center" and all objects have this key. In other solutions the primary key is a document name, or a hidden numeric index. Titles allow anything to be an object even if it is one of many, and yes you can automate it. Zooming out from titles you can use naming standards or tags and fields to group them, Zooming in you can use "subTiddlers", "Compound Tiddlers" and Data Tiddlers for smaller than a single tiddler. I am collecting techniques to enhance the use of "Compound tiddlers" which will help provision the automated tiddler, but in this case the subtiddlers will in effect have two keys, the top level tiddler and its childrens names. Thanks for raising this important Question. Tony On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 8:30:38 PM UTC+10, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > This is one of those offtopic/ontopic things. > > The filtering mechanism in TW is very orientated to "titles first". > > MY problem is that I often have *TEXT that is more meaningful than its > title*. > The title is merely a placeholder (till later). > > For instance ... > > Title: "Working Title #247" >> Text: "When Willowy goes for donuts the cicadas sing. >> In harmony." > > > Title: "Working Title #595" >> Text: "Willowy is an instrument of >> Thomos The Third." > > > 1 - How do I SEE all lines containing "Willowy"? > > 2 - How do I correct "Willowy" to "Willowby"? > > You see here the *irrelevance* of "Title", yes? > > Is TW a *text-base* or a *title-base?* > > TT > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/78cc0d4a-03e2-4ec6-87d3-ec012924cda9%40googlegroups.com.
