Don't mind me as I have way too much fun with this. Information Systems Analyst and lifetime programmer over here, love programming and I'm pretty methodical (paralysis by analysis, or analysis by paralysis) when it comes to lining up potential requirements
I also never start with "pretty". Always just functional enough to line up
the ducks (potential requirements/workflows, useful features, etc.)
A nice feature might involve reporting on all citations. After importing
the tiddlers in the previous attachment, download and import this
additional tiddler (attached for reals this time.)
On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 4:11:05 PM UTC-4 Charlie Veniot wrote:
> Arg, forgot attachment.
>
> On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 4:09:32 PM UTC-4 Charlie Veniot wrote:
>
>> 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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