@Springer On the other hand, if you like using the off-the-shelf sidebar search > function (as I do, especially if I publish for students), that may give you > a reason to stick with a longer concatenation: if the title field holds > *Beauvoir, > Ethics of Ambiguity (1962)* you can always easily find it even if you > only remember that the source has "ambiguity" in it. ;)
I didn't actually think of that, definitely an advantage of using full names. I've recently gravitated toward approaching the title field with > author-date brevity, as is used in interlinear citation: *Beauvoir 1962* This definitely has advantages in terms of brevity, but my intuition is that I would find only including the author's name more difficult to remember. *but* I have the freedom to custom-abbreviate titles that are > inconveniently long. I think I am leaning towards taking a similar approach, but with the main titles rather than captions. Something like *Ethics of Ambiguity* is short and easy to remember, but something like *Genome-wide CRISPR–Cas9 screening reveals ubiquitous T cell cancer targeting... *is going to be much easier to manipulate in your mind if you come up with a new label for it. @TiddlyTweater I am not fully sure this a TW issue, so much as a WHAT IS MY CITATION > scheme? issue :-) Not quite. It's more about labels than citations. I'm interested in what is a good way to label sources so that I can most easily manipulate them in my thinking. Again this all goes back to "Idea APIs". @Charlie If you do want something to make it easy to find titles while creating > links, you might find the Edit-CompText > <http://snowgoon88.github.io/TW5-extendedit/> plugin really helpful. Thanks, I already use this plugin! I would say that the titles for me are less about being easy to find with TW tools, and more about making sources easy to think about and pull out of my brain, if that makes any sense. Hence why I'm questioning whether using the 'official' name is necessarily always the best option. I don't know for sure, but I just have a suspicion that shorter names make sources easier to think about as concepts/ideas. In conversation people often shorten the names of things when discussing them (e.g. "Empire" and "Jedi" for Star Wars 2 + 3) and obviously this just saves time, but I think there may be cognitive benefits of compressing names in this way when discussing sources. On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 01:09, Charlie Veniot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 1:51:05 PM UTC-3 Si wrote: > >> >> I have been thinking about this and two possible advantages occur to me: >> >> - Shorter titles are quicker to type when linking from other tiddlers. >> - More importantly, perhaps they are easier to remember, or 'lock >> onto'? For example I will probably more easily be able to pull >> "DeliberatePractice1993" from my brain than I would "The Role of >> Deliberate >> Practice..." This relates to titles functioning like APIs >> <https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_note_titles_are_like_APIs>. >> >> >> > If you do want something to make it easy to find titles while creating > links, you might find the Edit-CompText > <http://snowgoon88.github.io/TW5-extendedit/> plugin really helpful. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/gzLJNKuLRPM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/17bcc5ee-42a2-4010-86b8-470761b64e69n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/17bcc5ee-42a2-4010-86b8-470761b64e69n%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/CAKKx7WaZXC_T_CgRx-m_KtJYPxR%2Bo75XVw8JvD%2B8uTf9HPN84g%40mail.gmail.com.
