Hi Springer! The conditional summary needs a summary field! This is what Soren explained and is a good approach!
I mean Extracting Introduction From Tiddlers: https://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#Extracting%20Introductions%20From%20Tiddlers It lets you use the same standard searchbox! Best wishes Mohammad On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 8:31 PM springer <[email protected]> wrote: > Mohammad, By "Tobias Beer's method" do you mean the one here: > https://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#Conditional%20Summary > ? > > That's quite similar to what I use. In fact, I like to create visually > distinctive ViewTemplate sections for various fields, iff the fields are > populated. Since I often use tiddlers to hold excerpts, and want to put > nothing in the text there field apart from the excerpt itself, a > conditional view template for the "notes" field -- displaying in a > contrasting box below the text content if and only if I've added notes -- > was the first such field-based auto-include that I found indispensable. > > -Springer > > On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 7:43:09 AM UTC-4 Mohammad wrote: > >> Springer >> >> >> 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/a3d1d21e-1731-42de-ac06-45aed57f617en%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a3d1d21e-1731-42de-ac06-45aed57f617en%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/CAAV1gMCmzFgq%3D3Pa-L%2BcS_HAD%3DqK4MjjbtyymoYwB7_-HO714Q%40mail.gmail.com.
