Kuzi, If you do store dates I recommend using the fill tiddlywiki serial number. I recently made an autonomous field, a field who's definition is in a single tiddler
See this thread https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/RP3RYc6Opxc For your larger question my own recommendation is to do the best you can now and prepare for the future. - Create a field called object-type and give it a value of book. - Learn how to set this field to book this perhaps with a button or dropdown - Learn how to list items based on a field eg; in filters has[object-type] or object-type[book] - Now create a view Template, and include a list or reveal widget that displays when - - <$list filter="[all[current]object-type[book]]" variable=nul> Everything including fields you want to display on a book {{!!author}} <$view filed=published-date format="date" template="YYY-0MM-0DD"/> </$list> - Then you can start to get smarter - Add into you viewTemplate display the ability to enter/edit the author field - Use pickaday below to allow you to set the published date My approach would be to have a tiddler for each book with all information stored in its own field as needed, leaving the text field for free notes like your personal review, and leave tags free for you to create ad hoch relationships between books and other information in your wiki. Tags are also helpful to groups items whos title could change in the future however the relink plugin can protect you from this as well (details below) This may seem like more work but it sets you up for future development of your books database and fuller utilisation of tiddlywiki, plugintiddler: $:/plugins/kixam/datepicker <file:///C:/Data/TW5/indexWikis/Registry/index.html#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fkixam%2Fdatepicker>reference: https://github.com/dbushell/Pikaday repository: http://kixam.github.io/TW5-datePicker/ Source https://flibbles.github.io/tw5-relink/keywords: rename relink update references backlinks field contentplugintiddler: $:/plugins/flibbles/relink <file:///C:/Data/TW5/indexWikis/Registry/index.html#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fflibbles%2Frelink> Regards TW Tones On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 8:09:34 AM UTC+10, kuzi wrote: > > Thanks for the information, this was similar to the conclusion I was > coming to. > > Additionally, great tip on showing the field values. I didn't know that, > but will definitely use 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/7434eae4-4362-4219-9a5c-0736707093fao%40googlegroups.com.
