Thanks Jeremy that makes way more sense than what I was going to do! On Sunday, 14 February 2021 at 14:27:04 UTC [email protected] wrote:
> @Jeremy - I did notice that the docs were available as a plugin, which is > definitely useful, but I'm not sure that it will solve my problem. Since I > will tag tiddlers from the docs "Read" when I have read them, I'll end up > just overriding every shadow tiddler anyway. In my case I want to be able > to tag tiddlers as "Read", but if that tiddler gets updated in the docs > have a way to overwrite that tiddler so that I know that I need to re-read > it and see what the updates were, without overwriting tiddlers that have > not been updated. > > > I wouldn't recommend using tags to mark docs tiddlers as read, for the > reason you've spotted. A reasonable alternative might be to use a separate > tiddler to keep track of the status of each docs tiddler. You might use a > prefix like `$:/read/`, so that the status for "HelloThere" would be in > `$:/read/HelloThere`. You could use the "modified" field of the $:/read/ > tiddler to track when you marked a tiddler as read. You'd also be able to > detect tiddlers that had changed since you read them. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > @Soren - Yep there is certainly overlap between our respective problems. > Please let me know if you find a solution! > > On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 19:13:33 UTC [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Soren, si, >> >> Some time ago we made the docs from tiddlywiki.com available as a plugin >> in the official plugin library under the name $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/ >> tw5.com-docs. The idea was very much as you suggest, to be able to keep >> a copy of the docs in ones own wiki. >> >> Sadly, most of the documentation had already been written on the >> assumption that the docs tiddlers were ordinary tiddlers, not shadow >> tiddlers, and so constructions like this don’t work properly: >> >> <<list-links "[tag[ActionWidgets]]”>> >> >> It would be terrific to go through and fix these issues to make things a >> bit more useful. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> >> >> On 13 Feb 2021, at 17:04, Soren Bjornstad <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm very interested in this question, as *Grok TiddlyWiki* faces a >> similar problem moving forward -- users might want to update to the latest >> edition of the book, but presumably will not want to lose their progress in >> all of the takeaways. What I've done so far is load the takeaways (and the >> snippets) in shadow tiddlers, so if the user has personalized any of them, >> they won't change if a different version is imported (I imagine the easiest >> way to upgrade will actually be to export the takeaways from the old >> version and then import them into the new version, where the user's >> existing takeaways will hide any takeaways with the same ID in the new >> version, e.g., showing only the user's versions unless new takeaways have >> been added). >> >> I could imagine extending this with a tool that identifies places where a >> shadow tiddler differs from an overridden tiddler, perhaps displaying the >> modification dates and a diff and providing the option of overwriting your >> version (or even just specific fields on your version -- e.g., in the >> takeaways scenario, the user might want to update the text of the prompt >> but keep the scheduling history). >> >> On Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 9:05:24 AM UTC-6 si wrote: >> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> I plan to import the entirety of tiddlywiki.com into my personal wiki, >>> so that I can learn TiddlyWiki more thoroughly by making flashcards and >>> notes as I read through the docs. >>> >>> Here are a couple of more specific points: >>> >>> - In order to keep track of what I have ready, I will create a >>> checkbox to add a "Done" tag to a tiddler if I have read it. >>> - There may be overlap between the titles of tiddlers in the docs >>> and titles that already exist in my wiki. To get around this I will >>> prefix >>> every tiddler from the docs with "TiddlyWiki docs/". >>> >>> So far so good - I know how to do all that. The problem that I have is >>> that I want to be able to keep up with updates to the docs. This means that >>> I want to be able to re-import the docs, but only replace tiddlers that >>> have been modified more recently than already imported tiddlers. >>> >>> I don't know a way to approach this last point, so any help would be >>> much appreciated. 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