Thank you both. What I conclude from this is that I need to learn (quite a bit) more about TiddlyWiki — and then all of this will become clear to me. On Monday, 1 February 2021 at 11:42:33 UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
> Can still be done. A bit complicated to build that kind of filtering > smarts, but I think that would be a really fun project to work on for > somebody who has the time. > > If the result is a simple count of tiddlers for each individual tag, and a > simple count of tiddlers for each possible value in a field (that done for > each field), that would be easier than getting counts for each possible > combination of tags + each possible combination of field values. > > And the process does not need to be told what tags exist, what fields > exist, nor what field values exist. The process can figure each of those > out automagically, with maybe just a hard-coded "exclude" list if there are > certain kinds of tags, and/or fields, and/or field values that should be > excluded from the process. > > On Monday, February 1, 2021 at 12:08:15 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > >> Thank you, Charlie. But, alas, no. >> I would like to select, say, m people from a TiddlyWiki (somehow) then >> have the TiddlyWiki tell me what common features these people have. >> >> On Monday, 1 February 2021 at 10:23:54 UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Say you are interested in the collection of people who are librarians, >>> and you want all of these librarians grouped by those >>> features/characteristics. >>> >>> Do you want the results to look like: >>> >>> - 10 librarians were born in 1965, and favourite author is Margaret >>> Atwood >>> - 2 librarians were born in 1970, and favourite author is J.R. >>> Tolkien >>> - 5 librarians were born in 1971, and favourite author is Margaret >>> Atwood >>> - 7 librarians were born in 1971, and favourite author is J.R. >>> Tolkien >>> - 3 librarians were born in 1982, and favourite author is Agatha >>> Christie >>> - .... >>> >>> If so, that can certainly be done. >>> >>> >>> On Monday, February 1, 2021 at 10:35:49 AM UTC-4 [email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Suppose that the Tiddlers represent individual people, and that within >>>> each of these Tiddlers there are facts about those people that they have >>>> in >>>> common. The facts could be represented in any way available in TiddlyWiki. >>>> For instance, a fact might be a person's occupation or birth year or >>>> favourite author. >>>> >>>> On Sunday, 31 January 2021 at 21:10:48 UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>>> Although I say ABSOLUTELY (!!!), what I have in mind involves a horrid >>>>> mess of filters in a process that needs to know each and every >>>>> feature/characteristic to consider. >>>>> >>>>> It ain't pretty if features/characteristics are few and simple, and it >>>>> is downright ugly otherwise. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 4:19:02 PM UTC-4 [email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Can I identify a collection of Tiddlers within a wiki and have >>>>>> TiddlyWiki tell me which features or characteristics are shared by those >>>>>> Tiddlers? >>>>> >>>>> -- 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/aa61de89-66fd-4ca8-a7bd-9bfdefcde5b5n%40googlegroups.com.
