Manish, there are different ways to think about organizing quotes. If I had been working in Tiddlywiki all along, I'd probably set up each excerpt as its own tiddler, putting only the actual excerpt in the body of the tiddler and using fields for various citation details such as author, title, page, meta-title (journal or enclosing book), notes. I'd tag each one with "excerpt" and use an excerpt-specific template to make each excerpt display with the relevant fields as desired. Then I would use a dynamic table for any desired "slice" of tiddlers (filtered based on a certain source, or a certain author, or with a certain word or keyword, whatever). If you're starting fresh with TiddlyWiki, I recommend this granular approach. A tiddler should generally be the smallest informational unit that is of interest to you and/or your audience.
In my own case, I had already developed (starting in the 1990s) a full-fledged database of research- and teaching-related excerpts using the FileMaker database app (which was my software brain prior to TiddlyWiki, and still handles most of my document-generation tasks). And my main use for excerpts in TiddlyWiki was to organize the excerpts for each particular reading, for access during classroom discussion. (It was easy for me to get FileMaker to "dress" the excerpts up with various bits of syntax and bundle them in sets based on my usual teaching needs. At the time (duing TW Classic times) it was easier to copy and paste large sets; I didn't know how to import a whole array.) So, I batch-generated an excerpt set for each class session, using a combination of <$details> formatting (using telmiger's plugin, referenced earlier in this thread) and quotation-graphics css. The result, for each chapter or article, is a neat-looking "accordion" array of quotes, where the summary for each excerpt includes a "teaser" phrase and page number, and the drop-down allows us to expand passages of interest as needed during discussion. You can hit "edit" within an excerpt-oriented tiddler to see what the guts look like: https://springerspandrel.github.io/tw/ethicsatwes.html#Arisotle%201%20excerpts ... But again, the reason I didn't take a "granular" approach (one tiddler per excerpt) is idiosyncratic, and I don't recommend emulating this aspect of my site organization! I believe some other folks here have actually developed a full-fledged biblio tool for tiddlywiki. In particular, if you haven't seen it yet, check out Mohammad's Refnotes plugin: https://kookma.github.io/Refnotes/ -Springer On Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 12:34:33 PM UTC-5 manishm...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Springer > I have no coding knowledge and have been exploring a way to collate quotes > and excerpts. > Would it be possible to educate me on the way you have listed the Excerpts > in your tiddlywiki. Or could you please direct me to some links that > explain the process. > Thanks a ton > > Manish > > On Friday, 27 November, 2020 at 1:27:15 am UTC+5:30 springer wrote: > >> Cl0d, exactly what I find marvelous about TiddlyWiki is how much it can >> be molded to very different purposes. I maintain different TW5 projects for >> different purposes, with different plugin sets and other customizations >> suited to the purposes of each project. >> >> Two things that I suspect I do more than most people are: >> >> (1) Make a dynamic table, using the Shiraz plugin, for virtually every >> important tag. It offers a great compact way to get the big picture on any >> slice that interests me. I used to use TOC-style tiddlers for this purpose, >> and that structure still has uses, but the dynamic table is more powerful. >> I love that I can structure each such dynamic table to focus on the fields >> that are important for that particular tag. (Of course, you can build a >> dynamic table around criteria other than tags, but that's my main workhorse >> use.) I also tend to populate my stylesheet with tag-specific css, so that >> there are clear visual cues as to which kind of tiddler we're looking at. >> (I use TW for teaching. So, a quiz question tiddler has a look and feel >> that differs from an author-specific tiddler or a definition tiddler or a >> tiddler focused on excerpts from the readings, etc.) >> >> (2) Liberally employ a "details" GUI for things that I don't want to see >> (or don't want to show to students) unless/until it's time to dig in >> deeper. I use telmiger's details plugin, because it's super-flexible about >> the contents within the details area (allows any formatting or markup you >> can think of within the hidden "pocket" area). But to put ordinary text >> elaboration into a details "pocket," Shiraz's details function is simple >> and great too. >> >> If you'd like to poke around on one of my teaching sites, feel free to >> visit this link: >> https://springerspandrel.github.io/tw/ethicsatwes.html#TiddlyWiki >> >> Enjoy the adventure of discovering the possibilities! >> >> -Springer >> On Thursday, November 26, 2020 at 2:06:10 PM UTC-5 Cl0d wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> Been using TiddlyWiki for a few weeks now. I'm still learning how to >>> cope with the enormous potential offered by TiddlyWiki. >>> >>> For example, I discovered today that it was possible to create a dynamic >>> table of content using keywords. >>> >>> So I was wondering, what are your best practices, or let's say, advices, >>> for using TiddlyWiki ? How does your "basic wiki" look like ? What plugins >>> and/or custom features do you use ? >>> >>> I'm still in a transitional phase, meaning that I'm writing my new notes >>> in TiddlyWiki to get used to it and I'm at the same time trying to discover >>> new tools to organize my future wiki's in the best way possible. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for every answer. >>> >> -- 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/48c7e2d0-eb89-4ad5-8392-a517019ddce8n%40googlegroups.com.
