On Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 1:31:00 AM UTC+2 springer wrote: > 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. >
As I did read that section, I did think in a similar direction. I was thinking about a "teaser" text that is shown in "Blog overview listings". Sometimes it's the first paragraph of the text itself and sometimes it is a short summary, that comes later in the text. ---------- I did create a field-search plugin, that lets you configure additional fields that are shown in the search results. See: https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/field-search/ -mario -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e2a64d39-7a9e-4439-95f3-3dbfc4d4824cn%40googlegroups.com.
