Mat, Thank you for your reply. Sometimes I get confused and overthink over things and in such situation it is always helpful to me to hear what other person has to say. Your thought that I can always change the things later is very on the point. Its not like my data is going to grow huge over night. I can try things one way and if need be, down a few months, I can re arrange it to other way over a long weekend :-)
The thing is that I had become fairly good in TWC for my personal needs. Eric Shulman's exceptional work and his help around the forum was great and I learnt a few techniques from his work which seem to work everywhere I needed. But since TW5 came out I have not been able to become familiar with its clutch and gears. Therein lies the cause of my doubt over what direction I should take. You are also very correct about the need to create forms. I shall read the docs and forums and learn that. For now I have decided that the every event tiddler shall be tagged as 'event' and per event tiddler there shall be 2 fields, circle and type. All the rest of the information like what, when, where etc shall go ito content. Thanks for your input. I appreciate it much. On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 10:47:59 PM UTC-4, Mat wrote: > > passingby, > > IMO it is hard for anyone else to tell what you should do. A lot depends > on your detailed workflow and how you'll use this meta data. My suggestion > is that you just make a qualified guess - because you can *change it > later* (e.g by means of the Batch Manipulator > <http://batchmanipulator.tiddlyspot.com/>) > > But just a few things to note... most/all that you already know, but you > did ask.... > > Tags are much easier to work with than fields or dictionaries. Tags are > *designed > *specifically for easily creating hierarchies and associations, and to > assemble lists etc. > > There can only be one instance per field(-name), say, "foo" in a tiddler, > and it has a few limitations in how it can be named. But it can contain > anything, for example multiple fields can contain the same and repeated > value. > > You can make custom fields part of the tiddler template. Both the edit > template and the viewtemplate. Actually, you might want to snoop around for > how to make *forms* for filling in your data. At least you should use > templates to avoid unnecessary work. > > Regarding dictionaries: they are kind of similar to fields in their > limitations but gathered in one place. IMO, the term "dictionary" is very > suitable and I don't quite get the impression that it is "dictionary > functionality" that you're after with your limited set of repeated, um, > "headings". > > There are for sure more things to know that may affect your decision, but > my main point is that your gut feeling is probably the best start. > > <:-) > > -- 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/210b41fe-14a5-440e-940a-e44aa8fbe5e7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
