I tried your approach Stan and it worked – hooray!

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Thanks very much.

Mike
On Saturday, 6 March 2021 at 16:23:28 UTC mej...@gmail.com wrote:

> @Torax - no, looking to sort by date of the memory itself rather than date 
> the memory was posted.
>
> @Si - that sounds like what I had in mind. I will give this a try and post 
> an update.
>
> @Stan - that’s correct. Although would prefer not to have to perform a 
> search to view the posts.
>
> Thank you all for your help. I will have a go and see if I can set this up 
> and post an update.
>
> Mike
>
> On Saturday, 6 March 2021 at 14:23:21 UTC stan...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Mike, what I think you are asking about is making journal entries after 
>> the date of the memory, but having it appear in chronological order.  
>> Please correct me if I am wrong.   
>>
>> What I did was to change the title of new journal tiddlers to be 
>> "YYYY-0MM-0DD".  New journal tiddler automatically get today's date, but if 
>> you have a memory, say from February 1 (2021-02-01), you can edit the 
>> journal tiddler title to get it in the correct chronological order.  A 
>> right side panel search will put them in chronological order. 
>>
>> Stan 
>> On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 7:13:05 AM UTC-5 mej...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Firstly, thank you to those involved in making TiddlyWiki the amazing 
>>> tool that it is.
>>>
>>> I currently use a proprietary journalling app called Day One 
>>> <https://dayoneapp.com/> for keeping a chronological record of special 
>>> family memories, but am keen to migrate to TiddlyWiki.
>>>
>>> In Day One, all entries are automatically sorted by the date that the 
>>> memory occurred, as opposed to when the entry was actually posted. This is 
>>> important to me, because entries are usually added in retrospect and my 
>>> brain doesn't always remember to add them in the order that they actually 
>>> took place!
>>>
>>> For example, if I add three memories that took place in this order on 1 
>>> Jan; 1 Mar; 1 Feb, the entries automatically appear in descending order 
>>> based on the date that the memory occurred like this: 1 Mar; 1 Feb; 1 Jan.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to replicate this behaviour in TiddlyWiki? If so, what is 
>>> the easiest way to set this up? I don't mind playing with things to get it 
>>> working and have a technical background, but please do explain it like I'm 
>>> 5!
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>

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