Soren, A Quick answer is to create tiddler for the relationship between two tiddlers, link to that relationship, which subsequently links to the related tiddler. Once the relationship tiddler exists exists it is simply a matter of tagging it with Mention or "relationship". The relationship tiddler can be numerically named.
Alternatively to making generic relationships and tagging them "mention" you could make specific relationships tiddlers eg mentions. Regards Tones On Sunday, 28 February 2021 at 06:32:13 UTC+11 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > Occasionally I find myself wishing I could include additional information > with a link, often describing the exact relationship expressed by the link. > A basic example would be, in a journal tiddler, I might link to a person > and want to keep track of whether the person actually *participated* in > the events being described, or was just *mentioned *in them. > > I imagine a syntax something like this: > > Mentioning [[Alice!mention]]. > Or [[a person|Alice!mention]]. > > Another sensible choice could be to expose this functionality only through > the <$link> widget, so that no new syntax would need to be introduced. > > You would then be able to filter on this metadata through a suffix of the > links[] or backlinks[] operator, e.g., the filter > "[[Alice]backlinks:mention[]]" could return only those links to Alice that > are of the *mention* type. Perhaps something like > "[linktype[LinkingTiddler],[Alice]]" to retrieve the type value as well > (could have multiple values if there are multiple links of different types). > > I don't think there is anything you would be able to do with this that you > can't do with fields, but I think in quite a few cases this would be a more > convenient syntax. Another advantage in some cases is that the metadata > would automatically come along with excisions and copy-paste. > > Does this sound interesting to anyone else? Practical? > -- 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/618ec3bf-23ba-4f14-a9b2-a5f93b4df1d4n%40googlegroups.com.
