About hierarchies: I really liked the Treeview menu when it came out, and used it for my NoteStorm, but I found that the deeper you go, the more frustrating it got.
1. There is only so much vertical real estate to work with. So you have to limit yourself to a small number of main topics. 2. As you open the deeper levels, the treeview open or closed option gets frustrating: if you use the 'open' option, you often stretch the mainmenu vertically beyond the dimensions of the monitor, but if you use the 'closed' option, the whole mainmenu closes as you save a new note. Also, I used to use ForEachTiddler macros for my tables of contents, but was always frustrated that I was thus locked into alphabetical order. Especially since most of my work is with the Bible, which needs to be in the order of the books of the Bible. I thought I would show you an image of the system I use now: http://www.giffmex.org/bpnimg.jpg . I went back to good old fashioned tabs and handmade hyperlinks that made me fall in love with TW in the first place. No FET or treeview bells and whistles, not much tagging. Just good old fashioned bracketing, saving and clicking. 1. The left hand column is made up of vertical tabs that contain the main topics. 2. The middle column shows the content of the open tab. Clicking the @ symbol opens the tab to edit it. CSS is set so that if the contents are longer than the vertical dimension of the screen, a scrollbar appears. 3. Right column is the viewing and editing area. Sidebar is hidden but opens by clicking the arrow next to the close all button. Obviously this wouldn't be for everyone. 1. It only works well with a widescreen. I have a widescreen laptop. 2. And it's not a design that would be easy for beginners, since you have to dig into the tab macro to create the names for the mainmenu (lefthand column). But the middle menu is easy to edit. The system allows me to take many notes lightning fast, order topics and notes the way my brain orders them, and doesn't clutter the screen with buttons and special features. When I am done this will hold or give me visual access to all the notes in my PC. Incidentally, this thing is pushing 5MB and is not showing signs of slowing down. I am using IFrames to access local pdfs, and a CSS modified image link to force images to the tiddler column size. I placed the subfolders of images in the same folder with the TiddlyWiki, and accessed them like this [img[subfoldername/imagefilename.jpg]], so that if I ever put the TW and the folders on a USB or another computer, it will transfer without needing to change the file extensions. I have the Iframe and the modified image link available from QuickEdit, so I don't need to type them each time, just wrap my filename with them. Since I have notes in both English and Spanish, I tag Spanish notes 'spanish' and ColoredLinksPlugins renders the links a different color so that I distinguish them quickly. Sorry to go on at length about this. This isn't an answer to the question about how I would redesign TW from scratch. It is more reflecting on the comments about treeview and hierarchies to indicate my frustrations with them, and affirming that the original TW design has a lot going for it if you know what you are doing. Blessings, Dave -- 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.
