Hi Mat, > How do "types" differ from common predefined tags? >
In a number of possibly fundamental ways. To me, a tag is generally something "up the hierarchy", a more general, broader thing. What we are talking about here seem to be (qualified) references, qualified in that they may belong to some type of category, for sure, but it is that category that is the tag (or field) but not the related item itself! Say, I add a *comment* to SomeTiddler in that manner, then that comment is NOT the tag, it is just a referenced bit of information which itself HAS a tag of *comment* and possibly also *SomeTiddler*. So, an idea would be to have some "reference-list" show up perhaps at any of the sides of a tiddler display, perhaps left, right or below... not the default taglist, again, as we're talking about references, not tags. Imagine tiddlers of type "journal" or "car" and I'd want to show certain "create related tiddlers buttons" that are specifically designed to be shown at *car* tiddlers, e.g. "maintenance", "inspection", "insurance"... dadada... so, for each "car" I would be able to create related tiddlers like that... which are really children that tag to the very car they're related to AND that other category, i.e. "maintenance". > And it seems your variant is not really about capturing the > train-of-thought sequence(s) but instead manually *creating* the sequence > - yes? Which would rather mean it is at a later stage when it's about > organizing the information. > In which way is "capturing the train-of-thought sequience" possibly not "manually creating" one? I prefer not to throw a bunch of stuff on a pile to only later see if I can sort that bucket full of stuff. I'd preferably create things at the right place to begin with, if only some plain, sorted, flat, related-list that I can filter. As indicated by your mention of the Cornell method, I think your solution > is more for when the TW (or at least the session) is dedicated to a > specific topic or subject, so that you kind of know the parameters, i.e > which "types" you're working with and so that everything can be organized > into a structure and format that the topic "demands". > Not necessarily, there can be functions that allow to *easily* create new types of relations, like those edge-types in TiddlyMap. So, you simply... - create a "maintenance" type - optionally give it some filter, e.g. *[tag[Cars]]* to only show at certain tiddlers - chose an icon for it And voila, you have a new button rendered by that "RelatedList" mechanism that allows you to quickly create related "maintenance" tiddlers for *Cars*. Keep in mind that you would NOT be creating such category tiddlers all the time but only occasionally. Mostly you would just use them and have the corresponding list(-items) show up at the right places (in a grouped manner or custom sort order). Of course, you can always just have a generic "RelatedList" for all things tagged *MyThing* and, literally, *Related*. My concept is more a way of *capturing* the arbitrary sequences that come > up spontaneously when you're working in your TW, by confining them "within" > a tiddler (i.e the storylist). > I think we're looking at different things at all. You have a "related list" which you may want to expand on later / individually, that you seem to also want to sort. The only little thing I added was to be able to also assign a "type" to each... so as to be able to quickly and easily further qualify what each related item is. Best wishes, Tobias. -- 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.
