Eureka! It works! Thank you!! I will try to learn how to use those nested widgets for other purposes as well, not just Reading History.
On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 7:05:28 PM UTC+8 Eric Shulman wrote: > On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 2:48:05 AM UTC-7, Sapphireslinger wrote: >> >> When I finish reading a book, what is the most elegant way to mark it as >> read? > > > There are LOTS of ways to do this. For this reply, let's just use the > method you described... > > >> >> *list ... all tiddlers possessing the field "finished-reading-date" ... >> and sort them by that field ... sort under year headings (and) month >> headings?* > > *They are already tagged with the year I finished reading them (i.e 2020) >> and the month (i.e August).* > > > Here's a set of nested <$list> widgets to show the "Reading History": > <$list filter="[range[2018,2021]]" variable="year"> > <$list filter="[tag<year>limit[1]]"> > <<year>><br> > <$list > filter="[range[1,12]addprefix[$:/language/Date/Long/Month/]get[text]]" > variable="month"> > <$list filter="[tag<year>tag<month>limit[1]]"> >  <<month>><br> > <$list filter="[tag<year>tag<month> > has[finished-reading-date]sort[finished-reading-date]]"> >   <$link /> (<$view > field="finished-reading-date"/>)<br> > </$list> > </$list> > </$list> > </$list> > </$list> > > Notes: > * Line 1: $list iterates over a set of years using range[start,end] > (adjust start and end values to fit your data) > * Line 2: $list checks to see if at least 1 tiddler is tagged with that > year > * Line 3: displays the year > * Line 4: $list iterates over a set of month names using range[1,12], > getting the month names from the TWCore shadows > * Line 5: $list checks to see if at least 1 tiddler is tagged with that > year and month > * Line 6: displays the month, indented by   (an "em" space character) > * Line 7: $list finds all tiddlers with the year and month tags that also > have a "finished-reading-date" field, and sorts by that field > * Line 8: displays a link to the matching tiddler and the value of the > "finished-reading-date" field, indented by two $emsp; > * Lines 9-13: close the $list widgets > > enjoy, > -e > > -- 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/7dbab9d5-acfe-44ef-8a2c-43c313074267n%40googlegroups.com.
