Here is how I would start things. (Download attached JSON, and drag into
TiddlyWiki.com, or any tiddlywiki instance, to import the two tiddlers.)
I tend to prefer using transclusions instead of macros.
But this could be done with a macro instead.
Eventually, I might consider using a macro when I find adding new fields to
a citation getting messy. As is with transclusion, I would treat this all
as comma-separated value file and always appending new fields at the end.
If I found myself preferring the fields in a different order, I'd convert
this transclusion setup to a macro setup. Maybe. I'd be more likely to
add some goodies to continue using transclusion.
All of that aside, I'm thinking that what we have here so far touches on a
bunch of TiddlyWiki things to digest.
Let me know what you think.
I've got a whole solution in my head based on this foundation, and it is
pretty sweet. Just impossible to explain ...
On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:06:22 PM UTC-4 Charlie Veniot wrote:
> G'day Edoardo,
>
> Welcome to TiddlerHood !
>
> TiddlyWiki is ridiculously flexible, and one can get it to do just about
> anything short of pumping out toast.
>
> It can totally accommodate you, how you think, how your work.
>
> My thoughts: imagine a "create citation" button. You press it, and a nice
> form appears with fields for you to fill out. You fill the fields, click
> "Done", and the tiddler for your citation gets created, including whatever
> bells and whistles automagically added to whatever fields in that tiddler
> (example: the "citation" tag.)
>
> Easy thing to do in TiddlyWiki. If you want a sample of what I have in
> mind, let me know and I can whip something together if somebody hasn't
> already beaten me to it, or if you haven't already found a "canned"
> solution.
>
> Cheers!
>
> BTW, your post here in Google Groups do appear in the TiddlyTalk discourse
> forum. So folk see your post.
>
> They are more likely, though, to respond if you post over there. Me, I
> have a cognitive disability and can't handle TiddlyTalk at all. So I am
> quite happy to be of service here.
>
> On Wednesday, January 26, 2022 at 2:48:57 AM UTC-4 Edoardo Milan wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> First post in the community, thrilled! :) Discovering TW just now and
>> very excited about it, thanks to everybody who's making it possible.
>>
>> I'm using tiddlydesktop with 5.1.22.
>>
>> I'd like to use TW to write down citations from books, and I would be
>> specifying book's author and title and citation's page in tiddly fields (I
>> was thinking to automatically generate the fields with buttons, through
>> tm-new-tiddler
>> or ActionCreateTiddlerWidget).
>>
>> So: ideally my tiddly title would then automatically be generated as
>> {{author}}, {{title}}: {{pagenumber}} when I save my tiddly. Would this be
>> possible some way? I have been looking into transclusion, more buttons,
>> action widgets and so on but couldn't really come to a solution.
>>
>> Another workflow idea would be to write the citations in "subtiddlies"
>> stemming from a book "parent tiddly" which would already contain author and
>> title information, so that also those fields could get automatically filled
>> in the citation subtiddly.
>>
>> Any idea or help in how to accomplish this? I'm discovering TiddlyWiki
>> just now and not a developer so struggling a bit with these issues!!
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Edoardo
>>
>
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