On Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 12:56:51 PM UTC-4, Mark S. wrote: > > > > On Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 7:01:19 AM UTC-7, David wrote: >> >> >> I saw how you set "sections" up as a tiddler, containing the names of the >> sections. It would be great if there were a dynamic way to get a list of >> the sections. For my grocery list, they are all tagged with >> "ShoppingItem". Is there a way to create that list by searching all the >> tiddlers tagged "ShoppingItem" and grab the different values in their >> "section" field dynamically? >> >> > You could do this with a nested <$list> structure. > > The reason, or one of the reasons, I didn't do it this way to avoid the > problem that happens when you let people set up "sections" (or any data > attribute) on the fly. You tend to end up with either too many "sections", > or "sections" with different values (spellings, misspellings, plurals, > etc.) but for the same thing. e.g. > > Garden > Gardeen > Gardening > Gardens > gardens > OutdoorGarden > Yardwork > > Having one central location for the sections helps you to think clearly > about what values you want "sections" to contain. Then the drop-down list > allows you to easily select and apply that section to new items. If you > really want more sections then it's easy enough to add them to the driver > tiddler. Believe me, if you've ever inherited a database where someone has > freely entered anything they happened to be thinking of at 9am on a Monday > morning, then you'll know what I'm talking about. > > > Yes, I've definitely run into that kind of problem before.
But in the case of a TODO list, I would rather have a data entry error show up under another category, instead of not showing up at all. If I put in a TODO Task and did it quickly without checking to make sure it showed up, I could then disappear if I didn't categorize it correctly. I would then later spot it under the wrong category and then correct it. Or I guess if we kept to the static list, we could add some kind of exclusion to pick up the strays and put them at the bottom of the list under a section with a title like "Miscategorized" or something like that. -- 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/7c7a9c4e-10da-4854-930e-a89b35dd51eb%40googlegroups.com.
