A proposal for a story view... or maybe it's not a story view, you decide:
The problem it solves is as follows: As I read or work in TW, I often have several parallel ideas, thoughts, topics, projects etc going on. Not in the same moment, but in the time period from starting up a TW until I close it for whatever reason. But a, say, project typically involves a few tiddlers. This means that if I tiddlers that belong in different projects, then I must either close them or they kind of interfere with eachother. Throw in a few "side thoughts" and the story becomes very jumbled up. Digging in on a topic is tricky because of the other tiddlers open. So what you do, if you haven't already, is to close up tiddlers. You can reopen them later, of course... ...but, you have lost something then. You have lost the *sequence* of your thoughts. The narrative. This is no small matter in a thought process. We need a way to allow working with parallel trains-of-thought <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_of_thought>. This simply how our minds work. We associate things. TW is an excellent tool to document and tie together parts of topics, but it misses out on capturing the narrative of those parts. The "Recent" list touches on this but also there like in classic story view, the topics are pretty jumbled up (they are sequenced by order of closing, not order of thinking). And some time ago there was discussion on how to *save* <http://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#Saving%20And%20Loading%20A%20History%20Snapshot>a history snapshot, that resulted in a nice plugin. This also touches on the problem... but it is a somewhat static solution, a bit like a permalink. Plus, it is of course a snapshot of the tiddler river which did not group or sequence the tiddlers correctly to begin with. For this reason I propose a kind of hybrid story view, with "clusters", bringing toghether ideas from the above referenced snapshot plugin and also Jeremys new "stacked view" (but even clearer from his early drafts <https://jermolene.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/tabbedsinglepagemode-for-tiddlywiki/> on this). And this integrated into the classic story view. Here follows a draft that has quite a few issues that would need to be solved: <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i11zygJsqQo/VOPptDBi93I/AAAAAAAAPqs/MO0mdA6_AP4/s1600/IndexTiddler_right.png> (Enlarge for clarity) This depicts one such narrative sequence, using "index card tabs". The idea is that the seen tiddler is the last thought and you can progressively go down the list. In this example I have allowed multiple instances of the same title. This would capture the topic (ever tiddler relevant is clustered) and also fully the train of (relevant) toughts in time. How is a title actually added to this sequential list? My suggestion is that whenever a link in a tiddler is clicked, it is added to the list very much like in Jeremys "stacked story view" when clicking on a link in a tiddler. And also, when creating a child to the tiddler with it's local New here button. In the actual story river it could appear like this (again, please enlarge and also note there is more below the image). <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Xa_f9r5V8sg/VOPpAIPybdI/AAAAAAAAPqc/9iWlSJzg6r0/s1600/IndexTiddler_column.png> Here you see multiple such clustered trains of thought, i.e tiddlers grouped into topics and preserving their internal order. In this specific example tiddler "Dolor" appears also as a separate tiddler. Doable or not, I have no idea. The idea is then that when you open a tiddler that is really a topic, all those tiddlers in the narrative come along. (It may be necessary to have a "front" tiddler, that represents the whole narrative?) Obviously, the "tabs" could as well be in the form seen in Jeremys "stacked story view". Or one could imagine a narrative list that only appears on command (e.g like with the tiddler info button). Again, the ideal is to capture the narrative of your thoughts, IMO a very relevant issue for a note-taking tool. <:-) -- 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.
