On Sunday, November 30, 2014 12:49:13 PM UTC-8, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > These days, I tend to write things by starting with MS Word outline > mode, sticking things in various places, adding levels, dragging outline > items around. > > I really haven't seen anything like that in Tiddly, or in anything built > from Tiddly. > > Frankly, I think it's architectural. I keep thinking that Tiddly would > be a lot more interesting if it's architecture started as a structured > document, with a thin viewing layer; rather than as, essentially, an > interpreter that ingests and renders tiddlers.
It is completely within the architectural capacity of TiddlyWiki to represent this kind of complex, multi-level outline. Outliners generally work from the top down, defining the topic *structure* first, and then adding content; however, TiddlyWiki generally works from the bottom up, creating ad-hoc content first, and then re-factoring and organizing it later. Despite this difference is approach, both methods can produce the same resulting combination of structure and content. In TiddlyWiki, you use tiddlers to store the content, with tags on those tiddlers to define topics and sub-topics. TiddlyWiki also offers the added benefit that the tags themselves can be tiddlers, so that the outline can include content at all branching levels, not just the leaves. What is not *currently* implemented is an interface that lets you easily define the tag hierarchy before you define the content tiddlers that use those tags. However, since TiddlyWiki is extremely customizable, it is possible to create such an interface, that allows you to create the full branching "tagsonomy", including support for drag-and-drop re-ordering. As an alternative to reproducing a top-down outliner, another interesting possibility would be to use something like Felix Kupper's TaskGraph plugin [1] to *draw* a free-form diagram that graphically illustrates the connections between topics, sub-topics, and content tiddlers. [1] http://wkpr.de/hosting/tmp/tw5/taskgraph/ enjoy, -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios "Inside TiddlyWiki: The Missing Manual" https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inside-tiddlywiki-the-missing-manual/x/8816263 DONATE TODAY! -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
