@ELS, obviously, but anyone is free to jump in to tell me what I misunderstand :-)
GridPlugin[1] is wonderful, rendering tables to show - and even directly edit - meta data of specified tiddlers; fields, slices and sections... but not tags. Tags are used to filter out tiddlers, but you cannot edit tags in the grid. I assume the major(?) reason for this is that individual tags don't have a label, i.e it is tricky to refer to particular tag(s) in tiddlers. The plugin would be a complete "meta data" control panel if this was solved. Tags are probably the most popularly used form of meta data so I think it makes sense to solve this. I've come up with three IMO so-so ideas and a good one: 1) Grid list *specified tags*, i.e instead of a required label it is a matter of if a named tag *exists or not*. In the macro you enter the tag name as a column and if it does not exist then the grid shows a blank field but if it does exist, the tag itself is displayed, ready for editing. Altho I see value in this, it obviously deviates quite a bit from the the current 'paradigm' of the plugin. 2) Positions as labels, i.e where a tag is physically listed in the tags field. Positional number as column header. Workable at least for the first tag, but admittedly not very elegant. 3) Append labels to individual tags, or some certain format for certain tags. Perhaps sticking to the fields notation, i.e by naming tags like; label1:tag1 label2:tag2 or just certain string as a prefix. Column header is obviously the prefix. The drawback is you'd have to keep be aware of this at the time of tagging the tiddlers and it'd permanently affect the look of the tags. (An interesting aspect would be if it was possible to append multiple types to a tag, i.e label1,label2:tag1 or such) 4) ...and finally my favorite idea: Let tags be labeled by... tagging them! I.e so that GridPlugin can list all tiddlers that are tagged with a tag of a certain type. For example; list all tiddlers tagged with "BasketBall", "Soccer", etc (unknown amount) that, in turn, are tagged with "Sport". The column in this case would be "Sport". Thoughts? :-) [1] http://www.tiddlytools.com/#GridPlugin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
