Soren, In your "better indexes" essay you write: If we do have the full text included in each locus, we may want to write a summary anyway and store it along with the full text: this way, we’ll be able to create an outline later and more easily see what parts of the document we’re hopping between.
And it reminds me how certain enlightenment texts were printed with a running outer-margin summary distilling key points (and of course the cognitive work of spelling out those side-notes is considerable!). For example, see the side-notes starting at p 49 (pdf-pagination) on this Adam Smith manuscript: https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/237/0206-01_Bk.pdf For some tiddlywiki projects, I've started to employ a super-condensed summary field (call it, say, the tldr field) that can be displayed for certain purposes. Unlike the main body of the tiddler, the tldr is text-only, maximum of a single sentence. (And if I can't summarize the tiddler in one sentence, then it needs to be more than one tiddler. ;) ) Of course, the fact that tw's standard search interface doesn't peek beyond title and text field means this solution requires some building-around to be useful. Overall, I'm enjoying your essay and its questions! -Springer On Monday, August 9, 2021 at 9:17:00 PM UTC-4 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > Some of you all might be interested in this new post on my blog: > > > https://controlaltbackspace.org/notes/better-indexes-through-semantic-modeling/ > > It's a proposal for a system for indexing large documents based on a > hypertext graph, including a discussion of a possible TiddlyWiki prototype. > Warning: 6,000+ words. > -- 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/96e1e06c-130c-447f-812b-a1d5ac0116e2n%40googlegroups.com.
