"Please read" because I think you will find this valuable.
"Stealth" because it is about doing things silently and invisibly.
I've figured out how to create tiddlers in a very direct way. This solves a
problem I've had with TW for as long as I recall - namely that it is
surprisingly slow and complex to create a "note" in this note-taking tool
of ours. So much so that I can't use TW for *live *notetaking like during
lectures or even quick scribbles (I've used Cinta notes instead). TW is
more about *managing *notes than *taking *notes... but this might just
change:
Stealth NewHere
Simply put this in a tiddler:
<$edit tiddler="$:/temp/Stealth" field="newtitle"
> class="tc-edit-texteditor" default="ooo" />
>
<$edit field="tags" class="tc-edit-texteditor"
> tiddler={{$:/temp/Stealth!!newtitle}} />
<$edit field="text" class="tc-edit-texteditor"
> tiddler={{$:/temp/Stealth!!newtitle}} />
>
This adds three editor fields; title, tags and text. (Note: you should not
create the $:/temp/Stealth tiddler. It is automatically created on using
the editor fields.)
Fill in a title. As soon as you type into any of the other fields, a
tiddler is silently created (as evidenced in tab Recent). Tags with spaces
are [[written like this]].
Content is automatically stored in this new tiddler, no button to click.
If you want a second new tiddler, just change the title and the other
fields are automatically reset.
For this to be convenient, the fields would have to be permanently exposed
or toggled stick/hide somewhere. I'll return to this issue in a second, but
this brings up one more application for this - a "parallel editor:
Parallel editor
If you into the title editor field enter the name of an *existing *tiddler,
you see the code for it. I have created a sidebar tab with various tools,
including an empty title and text editor field so that I can keep a tiddler
in view mode in the river but change it *live *by manipulating the content
in the editor. Ever since I found this "method" a few weeks back, I have
found I use this live editing quite a lot in my experiments. It is
particularly useful when experimenting with CSS.
Help needed
Ok, so to put it in the sidebar is one thing. But I'm hoping to have the
3-field setup more permanently accessible as the main route for creating
new tiddlers (instead of the NewHere button).
Here's a mockup with a possible layout. Please click to enlarge.
<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SpN6I6Ari8Y/VUDBrI9h2YI/AAAAAAAARR4/c_XC2HpyQqk/s1600/cinta_empty_variantC.png>
The thumbtack refers to some type of top up/down slider that can to stick
or unstick depending on if you want to create a new tiddler or are in more
of a reading mood.
I was very happy the other day to see that fellow Jed is creating a version
of popout menus
<http://ooktech.com/jed/ExampleWikis/Text%20Menus/upgrade.html>. I don't
know if they could work in this context though? @Jed
I have a lot of further ideas on the matter but would like to hear your
thoughts and ideas first. Not least, for it to be practical as a live
note-taking tool I would need help with the popout slider bit.
Hope it is of value for someone.
<:-)
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