Thanks, Tony! You've inspired me to try a different approach - I can just add a ViewTemplate tiddler for journals to model the behavior I need.
So it seems to me that TagDropdown doesn't have anything to do with sorting the tagged tiddlers after all - maybe the documentation could use some improvement there! -Rob On Friday, May 8, 2020 at 3:44:45 AM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: > > Rob, > > A Tiddler tagged with *$:/tags/TagDropdown *will appear when you click on > a tag pill. I am working something right now that makes use of this fact > however your use case it not the best way to tackle this because the tag > pill is about tag pills and is a popup for their management. Its all fine > for you to change this but you may interfear with its normal use. There are > many other ways to sort and list tiddlers. Perhaps a convenient one would > be to place an appropriate list widget in a tiddler and tag it > with $:/tags/SideBar to you have a tab listing such journal entries. > Alternativly you could look at the recent tab, and create a clone which > filters out tiddlers without a journal tag tso this lists journal entries > in date order (modified). > > Your list can make use of the days operator to get relative dates, however > sadly the default journal tiddler often only has the date in the title, or > the created date. Personaly I use a modified new Journal, and New Journal > here button that adds the field journal-date at creation time which I use > for more sophisticated searches, and yes I can backdate a journal entry > using the pickaday plugin to enter /change dates. > > See the attached hacked New Journal button (it was hacked in an earlier > version) for recent versions import the tiddlers in NeWJournals2020release, > I discovered a small inconsistency in recent upgrades while doing this. > > Not withstanding my aversion to using tag pills for another purpose I am > looking at making use of the tagging mechanism for something soon, I will > keep your requirement in mind when working on that. > > Regards > tony > > > > > On Friday, 8 May 2020 01:42:36 UTC+10, Rob Hoelz wrote: >> >> Hello TiddlyWiki users! >> >> I have quite a few journal tiddlers - so many that clicking on the tag >> pill for the Journal tag lists *far* too many tiddlers. What's worse, >> they're listed in ascending chronological order - most of the time if I'm >> browsing to a journal entry, it's going to be a recent one. >> >> What I'd like is to customize how the dropdown for the Journal tag pill >> works - I'd like to show only the most recent 14 or so entries (perhaps the >> 7 before and after the current tiddler if the current tiddler is itself a >> journal tiddler), and I'd like to show them in reverse chronological order. >> >> To see how feasible this would be with minimal overriding of shadow >> tiddlers, I was digging around in the source, and I stumbled upon* >> $:/tags/TagDropdown*. The documentation on https://tiddlywiki.com for >> this says: >> >> The system tag $:/tags/TagDropdown marks tags dropdown sorting >>> >> >> This sounds promising! However, I can't find any examples of how to use >> this tag. Could someone point me in the right direction? >> >> Thanks, >> Rob >> > -- 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/c2ba96b3-a76f-4694-8850-ca789b87803a%40googlegroups.com.
