Ed, I have a long term goal to do this, and building that reference needs "Fuzzy dates" and yes making a timeline important.
In someways its too large a subject, but I will be happy to contribute to focused aspects to do this. It would also help researchers, historians and biographers. Regards Tony On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 02:32:34 UTC+10, Ed Heil wrote: > > Looking for advice on how to raise my game on one of my first tiddlywikis > ever. > > It's a timeline of life events, so I can go back and answer my questions > like "what grade was I in when that happened? When did I move there? When > did I meet them?". > > It started out as just a textual list, with some links. Then I learned > about tagging and stuff, and I ended up making a tiddler for each year and > tagging the events to that tiddler (so I can rearrange them in the correct > order thanks to the magic of list fields). > > I have not done anything more than "attaching events to a given year > tiddler" as far as assigning dates. I'd like to actually put dates in a > field, but I often don't have real date data, like I know something > happened in "1980" or "late 1980" or "fall 1980" or "september 1980" or > something like that. > > Any suggestions on handling that sort of thing? > > The technique I have, of just assigning things to years and arranging them > manually in order, actually works fine. It doesn't allow me to do things > like use the timeline visualization plugin, which would be pretty neat, but > that's not the most important thing. > > I guess I'm just wondering whether anybody has best practices or hints on > handling dates of widely varying precision. > > I haven't touched this TW in a while so it's kind of fun looking at how I > used to do things just a few months ago, and what I've learned since then! > (E.g. i used to make heavy use of WikiWords but that passed by the > wayside....) > > > -- 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/2a24bcf6-ac8c-4ce2-a424-39240155f7dfo%40googlegroups.com.
