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On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 4:01 AM springer <[email protected]> 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. > I would recommend Tobias Beer method for creating a description, Summary! Also in kookma utility there is a find macro (it has been published separately, see find macro in kookma GitHub page) which can simply extract the summary/description part and you can still use the standard searchbox by Tiddlywiki > > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/96e1e06c-130c-447f-812b-a1d5ac0116e2n%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/CAAV1gMDHHmkT%2Brb98q6iDe%3Dq7n4r6e79sr6xz9Y%2B7UV48txr5w%40mail.gmail.com.
