Hi David, Its great seeing how other people use TW, I would love to see more posts like yours (or video demos).
My workflow for reading is probably closer to the one that Soren shows in his demo. Very similar to the Zettlecasten/'How to take Smart Notes' approach. I add tiddlers for books and articles that I want to read, along with a 'priority' field with a value from 1-100. This acts as subjective indication of how worthwhile it will be to spend time on that particular source. Then I generate a big list of sources, sorted by priority. When I want to read something I glance at the list and pick anything from the list that I am attracted to in that moment. Since the list is sorted by priority I am mostly going to be seeing stuff of high value, but I allow myself to scroll down if there is nothing of interest. When I am reading I capture 'fleeting notes' and flashcards. I make these notes using Streams <https://saqimtiaz.github.io/streams/> on the tiddler for whatever source I am reading. While reading I am also trying to identify the main ideas within the source. When I notice a main idea I create a new tiddler for it (an 'Evergreen note'). This tiddler doesn't need to have any text at this point. Once I have made fleeting notes, I want to figure out what main idea is built from them. Streams is really helpful here. I can drag and drop the nodes to try and make sense of them and build a coherent structure. Eventually they will be dragged into the relevant Evergreen note (in some ways this is similar to what Soren was doing when he excised portions of his book notes into their own tiddler). I might later rewrite these notes and collapse them into their parent tiddler using the Streams to Text plugin <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/vYqDup5qAAs/m/T9ssODGqAgAJ>. This process does not happen linearly. Because I am making flashcards, I can read just a part of a source then return to it months later without any problem. I am also moving fleeting notes to evergreen notes throughout the process - not just waiting until I have finished the source. I have begun to think of this as part of the whole process of reading. The main problem I have with this workflow is retaining references to the original source. Once the notes get moved to their permanent home, the original context is lost. This is of secondary importance, but it would be nice to be able to retain a link back to the original source of the information. (Anyone have any tips on how to approach this?) Anyway there's a few other parts to this workflow but that's the gist of what I do. On Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 15:07:37 UTC+1 David Gifford wrote: > Hi all > > One benefit of watching Soren's video on TiddlyWiki was seeing his > workflow, which was so different from mine. I would be interested in > hearing what workflows people have for doing things in TiddlyWiki, and any > tweaks they use to fine tune those workflows. > > I will share two, to get the conversation started: > > 1. I clone editor toolbar buttons to create new buttons that I use to > insert things, like a link to the tiddler for the source I am reading > currently, e.g., [[@|AntiFragile (Taleb)]]. I do the same to wrap things > like <span class=""> and </span>. That way when when I am taking notes on a > book, I paste the source after my note and add the page number. Or when I > am adding CSS like indentation, font color, etc, I wrap with the span class > and type the class I am applying. An app like PhraseExpress is another way > to do this, and I have experimented with it. > > 2. I now have a setup I call BLT that shows backlinks, links and tags in > the sidebar, which makes it easy to navigate to related content, even while > in editing mode, and easy to read related content in the sidebar while not > losing my place in the current tiddler. So I am taking notes on a book in > the story river in edit mode, but have a list of all the links, backlinks > and tags off to the side to read right there or open to edit. I took some > notes with this setup over the last couple of days, and wow, I like it a > lot. > > What are some of your workflows? Mine are about note-taking, but maybe > yours are about other uses of TiddlyWiki? I would really love to learn from > all you pros here. Blessings. > -- 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/899368b6-bb56-482b-8562-050dc44129efn%40googlegroups.com.
