Hi Danielo, Feel free to email me [email protected] with what you want in your TW and how you plan to use it, and I will be happy to give you what advice I can.
I have six main TiddlyWikis I use frequently, 1. My Spanish materials on the Bible and other topics, published for others. It can be accessed at http://www.giffmex.org/recursosgiffmex.htm 2. A TW for seeing image links, of family, of travel, of images I bookmark from the web. This follows the index-and-gallery format of the example file in this thread, and will be greatly enhanced now by the new here buttons. 3. A TW for taking notes while I read. I have a topmenu with links to indexes for tiddlers, one per source, by format: Kindle, physical books, books on Logos software, and Bible study. Each source tiddler has a "read" field where I iinput to what page I have read, and a "notes" field where I input to what page I have taken notes. So for example in my index of Logos ebooks I have an entry Continuity and Discontinuity, Feinberg (read to 67 / notes to 67 of 314). The page #s are pulled from the two fields. I am enjoying this TW immensely. 4. A TW for organizing my own notes on select subjects. To be honest this is the hard one to set up. I keep changing my mind. At times I prefer a topdown approach where I create the largest category and from there create subcategories either by creating hyperlinks or by using a newhere button. At other times I prefer a bottom up approach where I create tiddlers and tag them to fit them into a larger topic. Theoretically the two approaches should work together and meet in the middle, but I find they don't. Hyperlinking is more practical for the topdown approach, since the results can be controlled and arranged in a logical order rather than an alphabetical order. And tagging is more practical for the bottom up approach. The problem is that the two don't meet in the middle. I tried combining the two, by creating TiddlerInfo tabs, one for all parent tiddlers and one for all child tiddlers. But it is not practical to use TiddlerInfo tabs to navigate, since you have to open it, select the tab, and close it when done. And you can end up with a lot of state tiddlers that way. But adding those lists to the tiddler content itself clutters things unnecessarily. My current incarnation, pre-new here phase, has a topmenu with links to missing, orphans and all nontagged notes (<$list filter="[!is[system]!has[tags]] +[sort[title]]"><$link to={{!!title}}><$view field="title"/></$link><br></$list>). Orphans are the tiddlers created the bottom-up way, that need to be integrated into the hierarchy somewhere. Missing are the hyperlinks to notes I haven't created yet. All nontagged notes is the fill index of actual notes. This system avoids tagging altogether. Now that I have new here buttons, I may decide to go back to a tag-based system as I used to use in braintags (see http://www.giffmex.org/braintags.html). But tag-based systems accumulate large numbers of tags quickly. The jury is out on this one. Another difficult decision for me, related to the above, is whether each thought on a topic should be a tiddler tagged with that topic (for example, each quote on the topic of pride tagged with 'Pride' and showing up in a 'Quotes on pride' tiddler), or whether each topic should be its own tiddler, and content added manually to that tiddler directly. The former option is great for a bottom up approach. It also allows the same thought to show up in multiple topics, as many thoughts ought to do. But giving titles to such tiddlers seem redundant, if the content is brief. And using a timedatestamp for the tiddler, as in braintags, while great for saving time and typing, creates a bunch of unsearchable tiddlers, since searches turn up a list of timedatestamps. The latter option is great for a top down approach. But to add any single idea you get randomly, you have to dig through levels of tiddlers to to find the proper tiddler for that before you can add the idea. That takes mental effort that is not always available at the moment. You could search, but what if the tiddler hasn't been created for that topic yet? Then your search will turn up nothing, then you will still have to dig to add the subtopic to the parent topic, and create the tiddler. Also complicating things is that some subjects have more than one name. Should the topic be Pride? Egocentrism? or Pride and humility, or Humility and pride, so that both topics are dealt with together? And should the parent topic be called self-concept? Self-image? Self-esteem? If you don't have a system that works well, you could be adding things to two topics, then when you go search for them, you have to go to two different locations, for things that ought to be together. I take notes almost daily, and the topics I take notes on are in the hundreds. So I have had to think and rethink a lot about this topic. Other TWs I use: 5. A contacts tiddler. Uses fields for the first image and for contact data. Nice for creating phone and email directories based on the fields and tags together. The new here button will be useful for this one, too. 6. A TW with to do lists and info I need to have on hand. This one is rather complex. I have 6 major areas of responsibility, so each area has a to do list with buttons to create new tasks in that area, tagged next, urgent, or later. Each area also has an info tiddler with a table full of tag pills for subareas so I can see dropdowns of tiddlers in that subarea. Then I have a daily routine tiddler and a tiddler gathering all the next and urgent tasks in a table by area, next in one column and urgent in another. At present I use a paper agenda for a calendar, rather than a computer based one. But I may go to Google Calendar soon. This is more information than you probably wanted, but I found it helpful to write out, and hopefully you can learn from my struggles, too. Blessings. -- 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/d/optout.
