I use WikiWords in my Zettelkasten <https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com>. Besides saving a couple of keystrokes, I actually like them aesthetically -- maybe because I'm a programmer, or just because I'm weird. And I think the restrictions in form <https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com/#GenerativeRestrictions> help me come up with concise names for things.
That said, I think it depends a lot on your application. I think my Zettelkasten just about hits the sweet spot for WikiWords: - Pages usually describe things or specific ideas, so concise nouns or phrases are usually the titles - Extensive wiki I spend a lot of time in, so getting used to a more complicated naming convention is not an issue - Mostly personal -- any utility it has to other people is accidental I would use titles with spaces if I were formally publishing something with TiddlyWiki, or sharing a wiki with others. Ed mentioned the weirdness of having to write names like "BookMarks." It's not just a little weird, it also means you're a lot more likely to accidentally create a duplicate tiddler by adding the capitals a different way the next time (IIRC, Wikipedia started out with WikiWords titles at the very beginning, and this was one of the main reasons they nixed it). So if something doesn't naturally contain multiple words, I don't try to force the issue and just use the brackets when I need to. I think Tones was alluding to the fact that you don't necessarily have to use the titles for display if they don't look pretty. You can always use the double-bracket form and enter a different link text than the name (e.g., [[MyTiddler|a description of what this tiddler is]]). If it's defined, the *caption* field on tiddlers is used by most of the table-of-contents features and a great number of other places in TiddlyWiki, in place of the title. I use the caption field pretty extensively in the customizations I make too. For instance, for book titles, I come up with a short slug with the most important couple of words and the year of publication and use that as the title, but then in *caption *I fill in the complete title and subtitle, and that's what shows up in the infobox at the top of the tiddler and in collected bibliographies. (Here's a good example <https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com/#CompleteThoughtMapping2003>.) Even a bit more on this <https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com/#WikiCamelCase> over in the informational notes in my Zettelkasten itself. On Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 1:05:34 PM UTC-6 Ed Heil wrote: > As a relatively new tiddlywiki user, I'm always interested in the opinions > of people who have been TiddlyWiki'ing for a long time, and this topic came > to mind. > > When I first started using TW (earlier this year), I tended to use > WikiWords for titles. I've since gone almost entirely to double brackets > (meaning titles may be single words or may have spaces in them). When you > start using titles as tags, and use things like Table-Of-Contents plugins, > it seems like an obvious move to remove the "multiple words, no spaces" > restriction from titles. > > I'm curious though if any experienced tiddlywikists still use WikiWords, > and if so what they find valuable about them. > > > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1c265319-07f5-409f-94df-8eae40bc97fen%40googlegroups.com.
