On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 5:20 PM si <[email protected]> wrote: > This question stems from a post I made here > <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/60IxH2QoBDY/m/kYWGzpIRBgAJ>, > but I'm also curious about the more general question so I thought I'd make > a separate post. > > *General question:* > > I can't think of anything that you can do with JSON tiddlers that you > can't do with normal tiddlers, so I'm curious where it would make more > sense to use JSON? >
I think this is pretty correct! I even think the vice versa! > > Actually I can think of one thing: tiddler fields have character > restrictions. But this doesn't seem like a big deal. It seems outweighed by > the fact that we have much better tools for manipulating normal tiddlers. > > *Specific case:* > > My specific case that triggered this question was that I created a button > to store "history" for particular tiddlers. The button essentially creates > a clone of the current tiddler with the title > <currentTiddler>/history/<timestamp>. Since I anticipate creating a lot > of "history-tiddlers", it occurred to me that another approach would be to > just store all the history data for a particular tiddler in a single JSON > tiddler. > > This feels a little neater, but more specifically I wondered if there were > any clear advantages to either approach? Will storing all history for a > tiddler in a single JSON tiddler be less of a drain on performance than > using lots of individual tiddlers? > I cannot judge about performance! but non-dataTiddler has many more supports from the core while comparing with dataTiddler. But as you said, sometimes I store data like a yes/no or definitions of words or things one line task/todo, in such cases I do not like to have one tiddler per item and mess the Tiddlywiki! Then when you do everything you see those tiddlers (I know you can use $:/ namespace...) I use dataTiddler as a permanent object with many variables quite a lot and they share the same namespace and this is quite handy and useful for debugging... So, in my opinion each has its own use case! > -- > 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/5b2d5326-b0ef-4723-8a33-8597f92a8c99n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5b2d5326-b0ef-4723-8a33-8597f92a8c99n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAAV1gMB%3DJyvN1PbFUtGJVFZwWnmwewyYumU75qN4YQ1NUOnd0A%40mail.gmail.com.
