Vincent et al; I think you put the requirements rather well. As an interested, but lay Author this subject is of some interest to me. One of the things I enjoy doing, and hope I could demonstrate is an ability to conceptualise and generalise. This is a big part of tiddlywiki's current strength using tags/tiddler/WikiWords and the macros that operate against them.
I think it is arguable that tiddlyWiki's non-linear nature is a strength that sometimes expresses itself as a weakness. It is possible to represent any organisational model such as networked, hierarchical etc... in tiddlywiki however we do not have all the tools to efficiently manage these alternate models - eg; Book heiracy along with it's non-linear research notes or associated lists/tables. In keeping with your crystallisation of the needs My notes in italic 1. strong searching/indexing/filtering engine *(we have this but it must be extended to assist in alternate tiddler organisation methods)* 2. visual display on one page all organized tiddlers as well as random/orphaned tiddlers (ie. you can have many mind-maps displaying in a main page - some are associated, others are not, but displaying on the same main-page nevertheless). - *This could present alternate views of the same data* 3. graphical interface so dragging to link/associate or disassociate is possible *This is a great idea, a two column method with an outline on one side (Expand to see tiddler content) and unstructured and or filtered items on the right* *(Including a filter that excludes items on left) so one can drag drop from Right to left (add to story and order) left to left (Reorder in story) and left to right remove from story.* If carefully defined the above solution could also be used for structured tagging eg; left hand side has a tagging structure and filtered tiddler on the right can be dragged and dropped to the left and obtain the relevant tag set - eg; Chapter1 Section2 MeetingCharacter1 or Personal Task Urgent The final extension of these features would allow two heirachcal lists on the screen at once and the ability to drag drop tiddlers between them with an option to have the tiddler exist in both structures or only one (Thus remove during drag/drop). With the above suggestion the tiddler name needs to be a meaningful descriptor of the contents (to assist organisation) so would not itself appear in the view one would use to "publish" the heirachy. It would be nice to be able to have the Published version in the left with the tiddlernames corresponding to it displayed in the right hand side and/or allow dbl-clicking on the published version would open the contributing tiddler. On output formats - The wiki formatting is always ultimately presented as a HTML in your browser. This can be selected and "Copied as HTML' or text. Once captured in HTML a large pile of tools and converters are available for placement into a traditional word processor or other file format for delivery to the editor. Perhaps a generic order within tag set tool could be developed. eg; The Tag "Items" may exist. If a global variable says tiddlywiki should order tiddlers tagged "items" then a field will be created in each tiddler tagged "OrderedItems" and a serial number placed in this - initially as created but updated when reordered. Tags effectively act as sets We should have a a small suit of set manipulation tools and tiddlywki will be very strong.. Anyway I hope this is of some value to those that may like to develop these powerful additions. TonyM If you have not found an easy way to do it with TiddlyWiki, you have missed something. www.tiddlywiki.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
