Here's some tips: https://springerspandrel.github.io/tw/biblio-demo.html

On Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 3:49:54 PM UTC-5 springer wrote:

> Manish, I've just added a mock-up of how I would have begun organizing my 
> quotes, if I had been working natively in TiddlyWiki from the beginning:
> https://springerspandrel.github.io/tw/ethicsatwes.html#excerpt%20overview
>
> At some point, I'd like to convert my teaching projects over so that 
> excerpts have their own tiddlers in this way; it's the right way to go.
>
> For this mockup, I haven't added fancy css or custom ViewTemplate 
> settings. But the most important thing is data structure, and having 
> confidence that you're setting up an approach that you can build upon 
> without regrets. 
>
> Last tip: be aware that some tempting field names — especially "title" 
> "text" and "source" should be *avoided* for holding your bibliographic 
> metadata, because TW5 is already using those field-names to track aspects 
> of your tiddlers. For a list of those "already taken" field names, see 
> here: https://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlerFields
>
> -Springer
> On Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 3:28:12 PM UTC-5 springer wrote:
>
>> Manish,
>>
>> I just replied in the other thread. But I'll recap briefly here, for 
>> folks coming across this thread: the best approach is probably to have one 
>> excerpt per tiddler, and put only the quoted passage itself in the body of 
>> the tiddler. Then use fields as needed for the metadata attached to each 
>> excerpt, and a tag such as "quote" or "excerpt" if you like. 
>>
>> If you use the lovely Shiraz plugin <https://kookma.github.io/TW-Shiraz/>, 
>> you can then also set up a tiddler for the book (or for the author, etc.) 
>> that filters exactly those tiddlers that have the field values you need, 
>> and which displays columns for the metadata you care about (caption, page, 
>> notes, etc.). One great thing about these dynamic tables is that you can 
>> see the whole list/table of excerpts *and* effortlessly drop-down to see 
>> the details of any one excerpt as needed.
>>
>> Feel free to follow up!
>>
>> -Springer
>> On Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-5 [email protected] 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear all
>>> I am relatively new to TiddlyWiki with no knowledge of coding. :)
>>> I have a query on collating the quotes that I take note of. For each 
>>> book I read, I have separate tiddlers named after the book. While I type 
>>> out a relevant quote from each book in the respective tiddler, what is the 
>>> best way to access them all in one place for future reference. I dont find 
>>> adding a tag of 'Quotes' to each tiddler helpful. This just gives me the 
>>> list of all the Book Tiddlers...
>>>
>>> Thank you all in advance. 
>>> Regards
>>> Manish
>>>
>>

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