I realize the original post got no comments...but I have been using this and tweaking it since then and have found it wonderful. Here are my reading notes since then using this system.
http://giffmex.org/mn.html Blessings Dave On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 10:40:40 PM UTC-6, David Gifford wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is probably the first time I have come up with a new TiddlyWiki > adaptation without asking for help! Yay! > > SourceStorm is an adaptation I did for myself to > > 1) create indexes of where to find topics in the books and ebooks in my > library and files on my Cloud Drive > 2) keep track of what chapters or pages I have read in each book > 3) Also add highlights I add to webpages using Genius > 4) Pin the tab in Firefox or open in the sidebar with a sidebar extension > in Firefox > > Link: http://giffmex.org/experiments/sourcestorm.html > > Most of my adaptations are for actual quotes and notes. This adaptation is > for briefly summarizing the thrust of a highlight in a book, followed by > the source. > > I create empty *source tiddlers* whose existence tells me I have > consulted the source in question, and whose titles tell me what pages or > chapters I have added to this file, and tiddlers listed as having an UNF > tag tell me I have not finished the notetaking process for them. The > Sources search tiddler shows me all tiddlers tagged source, and the UNF > tiddler shows me all tiddlers tagged UNF. > > The *project tiddlers* are either broad topics under which the > subprojects appear, or subprojects in which the notes are placed. > > Both source tiddlers and project tiddlers are created with new here buttons > > In edit template I have a kind of place holder for adding the source I am > workig from at the moment, which I then copy and paste after each note in > the tiddler. > > The topmenu lets me alternate between viewing links to children tiddlers > in a list search mode, and viewing the titles and text of children tiddlers > as a printable index on that topic. (Open the tiddler John and experiment > with the topmenu buttons to see the difference). > > So this will be a growing index of all the info in my library. I can add > content by book chapters, or as a project where I research a given topic. > > My expected process will be: > > 1. Read a book chapter and take written notes as brief summaries, with > page # > OR > 1. Read a webpage, highlight with Genius if needed, and grab the link > > 2. Transfer the summaries to the subprojects to which they belong > > 3. Copy and paste the source (author and title) from the edit template > place holder, after the summary > OR > or copy and paste the URL after the summary > > 4. Create an empty source tiddler under the broad topic entitled with the > book title abbreviation, the author if need be, and the chapters or pages I > have read > > 5. Open a given broad topic, close the Links view template tiddler and > open the Contents view template tiddler from the topmenu. This will give me > a viewable, printable index of the topic with all its subtopics. > > I did not create an empty version, so you would need to import the system > tiddlers (tiddlers with the $:/ prefix), plus the tiddlers Projects, > Sources search and UNF to an empty TW file. > > Feel free to pilfer anything helpful you find in this experiment, for your > own projects. Blessings > > Dave > -- 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/594dec34-df48-4213-9437-9d5a29447de9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
