Some fields like "medicinal plants" have a mind blowing number of "bits & pieces", So a drop-down list for "parts" seams logical, but think twice about "uses" if your desktop doesn't have 50 monitors stacked on top of each other ;) A simple text-field armed with a "suggestions as typing" function is far better for "uses".
On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 7:31:39 AM UTC+4:30, Mark S. wrote: > > Wow, that's really cool. And you did all that on a tablet? > > To turn it into a standardized database application, could those use and > part options come from a drop down list? > > Without a standardized list, what happens is that you get variant > spellings for the same thing (e.g. "Leaves" vs "leafs", "antispetic" vs > "antiseptic") Those variants will make analyzing the data later much harder. > > Mark > > On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 1:32:44 PM UTC-7, Jed Carty wrote: >> >> I would also recommend TiddlyMap, but it may get a bit unwieldy if you >> have 300 nodes. >> >> I doubt that anything will be finished in time to be very useful by >> monday, but I am hoping to make a generic encyclopedia model for TiddlyWiki >> using a lot of things I have made >> <http://ooktech.com/jed/ExampleWikis/Directory.html>. While it isn't >> immediately obvious a lot of the functionality you want is already in what >> I made. Unfortunately one of the biggest problems with TiddlyWiki at the >> moment is the difficultly going from understanding the very basic use as >> something like a journal or linked notebook to understanding more complex >> uses. We are working on it. >> >> In the meantime, everything in your list (all the plants belonging to X >> family, listing all plants with medicinal "root bark", etc.) can be done >> relatively simply using what you inspired me to make from your request ( >> here >> <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/2j4326k9mispk41/GenericFieldsAsTags.html?dl=0>). >> >> I am working to find a reasonable way for someone who isn't familiar with >> TiddlyWiki to use them effectively. >> >> Once I get the new changes added into the encyclopedia demo I made than >> just clicking on the tag pill for each section will list everything that >> has that entry. So everything that has antiseptic listed under uses will >> appear if you click on the pill antiseptic in the uses list. >> There are other ways it will be able to be sorted or searched through as >> well, like a drop down menu where you can select from all the uses to get a >> list of things that match it. >> > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/57a8fdb1-8c57-48b1-b6e2-599dd3e96a78%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
