Eric, Thanks for the explanation. I can see the value in the simple workflow that results from the automatically generated title. However, I think my preference is to have some descriptive content in the title, like "Staff Meeting" or "Phone Call from Client", etc. This would allow a simple list of journal tiddler titles to be a bit more meaningful than just a list of datetime strings. I guess this could also be achieved by manually appending some additional text to the title.
Regards, Mal On Thursday, 6 February 2014 16:22:53 UTC+10, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:40:32 PM UTC-8, Stephan Hradek wrote: >> >> Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2014 04:48:47 UTC+1 schrieb Mal: >>> >>> Maybe I'm missing the point, but why should we insert the date in the >>> title field of journal tiddlers? Wouldn't it be better to just use the >>> existing "created" field and modify the view style to display the created >>> date along with the title? >>> >> That's what I was always wondering in TWc and I never used the "new >> journal" function. But as so many missed it… >> > > TWC Journals > -------------------- > Auto-generating a journal tiddler's title from the current date can help > in two ways: > 1) it creates a quicker workflow, since there is no need to hand-enter a > title. Simply press "new journal" and start typing your tiddler content. > 2) it helps ensure that journal tiddler titles are unique (up to a point). > The default is day-at-a-time journalling (i.e., using 0MM/0DD/YYYY as the > title format). Invoking <<newJournal>> within the same day allows you to > append additional content to the same journal tiddler. Much finer > down-to-the-minute (or even second) journalling is also possible, creating > separate journal tiddlers for each entry, by specifying a combined date > *and* time format in the macro. For example: > <<newJournal "0MM/0DD/YYYY 0hh:0mm:0ss">> > can be used to record a log of events over time, such as support calls, > where each journal tiddler contains the notes from a single event. > > -e > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
