Hello friends, A few years ago I created a TWC for my personal use in which I recorded events of my life, like a journal or a diary, in which each event would be a tiddler which appropriate tags and fields.
At that time I had built a logical categories like this. Each event was described in 5 fields: What, When, Where, Why, Who, How Each event belonged to one or more Circles: family friends job personal relatives Each event had a Type: birth, crisis, death, dinner, divorce, health, holiday, interview, job offer, journey, legal, loss, marriage, meeting, money, movie, outing, profit, religious visit, shopping visit What i wanted was a historical record of my life which I could later look at in various sequences and lists. For example I could see how many deaths had occurred in my past 10 years or which all job related events had happened in past. Or where all did we go for outings. I am a kind of person who reflects and looks back on my life a lot in order to understand how I undertook my journey and what wrong or right choices i made, how did i reach where I am now in time. I used it for a couple of years but then it somehow it got left behind in the journey. The urge to record events when they are fresh in mind did not go away though. Hence I am now trying to make another TW again but this time in TW5. But now I am confused on how to use tags or fields in event tiddlers. Should the circles and types be tags or should one or both of them be fields? If so would there be any advantage over the other? What about the five Ws and one H? Should they be fields or should they be some sort of a dictionary table? The main thing is that I should be able to produce various kinds of lists. Also when I open an event tiddler everything should be easily visible. If I use fields I wish to have them displayed above or below the content in plain sight. In fact if possible can I use textual markers instead of tags or fields, like a dictionary structure, displayed in the content. Sort of like this: ----------Begin content of event tiddler------------- Circle: Job Type: Interview What: Job interview When: 15 Sep 2017 Where: ABC University, dept of languages Who: Prof X, Prof Y Why: [[Applied to the job advertisement today]] How: I appeared for interview with the board today. I think it went well and they liked my answers. The one person on the right (bald guy, cannot recall the name) was even helping me out, he wanted me to win. The board shall send me a letter in a week. Keeping fingers crossed. --------end of content---------------------- What are your suggestions regarding this. What should be a field, what should be a tag and what should be in a tabular form? Another point to consider is : can data-dictionary tiddlers be used for this? Would that be restrictive in any way? Thank you for your inputs! -- 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/ec2dc5e9-623e-4835-b0f0-4bb28b67e6ad%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
