I thought the reference tiddlers had content -- external links to file system documents ??
On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 11:48:48 AM UTC-7 Cs Molnar wrote: > Thanks for all your suggestions! By „pollution” I meant that, according to > my understanding, it would be a bad idea to create 35000 „useless” > tiddlers, which do not have content but only used as references. It would > make my wiki slow. TW is optimized for the case that tiddlers store content > and not references. Every time TW or a plugin would run its Javascript > code, it would have to chew itself through these useless tiddlers, and it > would happen at almost every content refresh. Also, because I use git to > version control my .tid files on Node, this would put unnecessary burden on > my git repository, as well. > > That's why I looked for other ways. Not to mention what happens if I read > 2 other similarly sized books. That would require over 100 000 tiddlers. It > just seems like a really bad idea to me. > > Mark S. a következőt írta (2021. április 27., kedd, 20:52:33 UTC+2): > >> I've made a Bible (twice, I think, but I've misplaced one. Possibly on >> the car roof top). A 6000 entry nutrition database. A 63,000 entry >> dictionary. >> >> You'll have to explain what you mean exactly by "pollution". >> >> For your situation, using node.js, there is, as they say "One weird >> trick." You can create all your reference tiddlers and put them in a >> plugin. This just means putting them physically in a folder under "plugins" >> and including a plugins.info file. Now your references will be >> essentially invisible until you want to link to them. >> >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 6:42:12 AM UTC-7 Cs Molnar wrote: >> >>> There is something I want to achieve with TiddlyWiki but I don't know >>> how, so I hope one of you can help me. >>> >>> My problem, in a generalized way, is the following: I want to take >>> reading notes from a book in tiddlers. The book has chapters (about 60), >>> every chapter has on average 20 sections, and every section has on average >>> 30 subsections. This makes around a total of 35000 subsections. >>> >>> In my tiddlers I will refer to specific subsections. Later I want to be >>> able to list all tiddlers which refer to a certain subsection. Also, I want >>> my references to be links to the content of the subsection on the internet. >>> (The book's subsections cannot be included into my TW, but they are >>> available on the internet.) >>> >>> Of course, the easiest solution would be to create one tiddler for every >>> subsection and insert links like [[Chapter4_Section6_Subsection23]] into my >>> notes. This way I could find every reference to a subsection. But this >>> would mean creating 35000 tiddlers (equivalent to 35000 files in my TW on >>> Node.js) to cover all subsections. Even if I didn't create them, I would >>> have 35000 missing tiddlers. This approach would heavily pollute the list >>> of my tiddlers. Every time I would use the $list widget, the 35000 existing >>> or missing tiddlers would come up. >>> >>> I hope someone has a good idea to save my TW from this pollution, but >>> still retain the possibility to search for references. I thought that I >>> could develop a custom widget in Javascript which would store the reference >>> list in a JSON tiddler. I'm experienced in JS programming but have less >>> knowledge on TW internals, so I'm not sure if this is the best solution or >>> is it overkill. >>> >> -- 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/c0f08f7c-a561-4591-be7e-586d9b0e2f4fn%40googlegroups.com.
