Hi Soren Thank you for sharing, as ever your writing is admirably clear and concise, and it's a pleasure to follow your thought processes.
I tweeted your post as TiddlyWiki: https://twitter.com/TiddlyWiki/status/1425837197844910080 Many thanks, Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston [email protected] https://jermolene.com > On 12 Aug 2021, at 08:03, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e2a64d39-7a9e-4439-95f3-3dbfc4d4824cn%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/6DAC9EF9-528F-4606-84BD-D85E93FBFDCE%40gmail.com.
