Hi All
I wrote my dissertation in Wordperfect... both times since a virus
wiped it out the first time :(
I use TW now for organizing my classes - tiddlers tagged "Week01",
"Week 02"... display other tiddlers tagged "Week01 LectureNotes",
"Week01 HandOuts", "Week01 ReqReadings"... This way, I can see each
week's materials by looking at that week's tiddler, or use
ForEachTiddler statements to see all readings, handouts, or lecture
notes in one place... I put my notes in tiddlers so I can also search
for specific terms and find which lecture included them, or cross link
things like definitions of a term to any place I use it.
I think this would translate to dissertations easily.
1) Create tiddlers tagged for the dissertation sections ("Abstract"
"Chapter01", "Methodology" etc...) and have them display other
tiddlers tagged "Chapter01 MyTasks" "Chapter01 ToRead", and "Chapter01
UsedRefs" followed by your writing for that chapter (in a tiddler is
possible... but that may be taking it too far... or a link to the doc
file you are writing it in). Keep in mind that the tiddler titles
could be whatever you wanted them to be, and so could be more
descriptive... but naming them to match these tags would make it
easier to use templates and pass $1 and $2 variables...
2) "MyTasks" could be
either a bullet list of "next actions" in GTD terms for that chapter,
like get an article, talk to your chair about something, email a
researcher somewhere with a question...
or a ForEachTiddler 'ed list of anything tagged "Chapter01 MyTasks",
meaning a tiddler for each task, which would give you a place to put
notes about the conversation with your chair or a place to include a
copy of the email exchange with the other researcher...
or both - a short list of one step tasks followed by the
ForEachTiddler statement for only the things that needed notes...
Keep in mind you could add a "Done" tag to tasks after they were done,
as well as add a "Pending" tag to tasks needing later follow up
action. You would then use three ForEachTiddler statments
--one to show all tiddlers tagged MyTasks but NOT Pending and NOT Done
to see current actions
--one to show all tiddlers tagged MyTasks AND Pending and NOT Done to
show those needing follow up or reminding
--one to show all tiddlers tagged MyTasks AND Pending AND Done to show
your notes on tasks
3) "ToRead" could list articles and chapters to read,
either as a single tiddler that just had a bullet point list
or as a tiddler with a ForEachTidder statement that showed every
tiddler tagged "Chapter01 ToRead MyNotes". The tiddlers tagged this
way would have the properly formed reference (without any hard returns
in it) as the first line, a blank line or two, and then your notes
below... you could add a link to the pdf for the resource too. These
tiddlers should be named "Lastname - Whatever" where Lastname is the
author's last name and Whatever is your description of the resource.
4) Once you decided to use an article or chapter in your dissertation,
change the tags for the tiddler for that resource to "Chapter01
UsedRefs". The ForEachTiddler documentation has an example of how to
list all tiddlers tagged a certain way, and return the first line of
text from the tiddler. At the end of your "Chapter01" tiddler... or
in a References tiddler... include a ForEachTiddler statement that
returns the first line of everything tagged "Chapter01 UsedRefs"... or
just everything tagged UsedRefs... and since they are named with the
author's last name as the first word in the title, an alphabetical
sort (the default) would give you an alphabetical reference list. You
could tinker with the code and have it display the first line as a
clickable link to the tiddler for that resource, or display something
like [[.|tiddlertitle]] at the end of the reference, and so the
reference would not be clickable, but the final period at the end of
it would take you to that reference's tiddler to see your notes and a
link to it...
Attaching links to documents likely means keeping a local copy of the
TW on your flashdrive, but everything else could be done on tiddlyspot
for example, and you could access your work anywhere you had an
internet connection... and keep a local backup just in case... did I
mention a virus wiped out my dissertation?
Just some ideas...
Richard
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