I struggle with some of these concepts <https://youtu.be/SmHl7hKlVj4?t=30s> :-) ...so let me see if I get it.
The strategy is to pick a modest Tiddler title that stays permanent, and then create a Caption that serves as a "display title"...such that when you refer to [[short title]] in a Tiddler, the display is the "caption" and not the "short title". The "caption" can change as the content of the Tiddler changes and hence you want to update the way you refer to the Tiddler to reflect the new content. I tried it and got the [[short title]] and "caption" part to work. I even updated the "caption" in the source Tiddler and links in other Tiddlers I created using [[short title]] reflected the change in the caption. I never got the alias thing to work and don't really understand it...and didn't really pursue the subtitle thing as I didn't think I needed to use either of those at the moment. I can see how this would work. As I think you pointed out, it's not really as desirable as changing the Tiddler title directly. Because even though your changing the displayed title, you now have to keep track of the fact that the actual title and the displayed title are different. I'll keep working at this and see how it goes. I my limited prior experience with Wiki's I was using to collect reference data and notes related to work, I found that building a knowledge repository was evolutionary and I often wound up re-organizing material and morphing the content and title of Wiki entries as my understanding of a topic changed and the grouping of the knowledge contained changed also (e.g., splitting a topic that had grown to have too many dimensions to adhere to the spirit of a Tiddler). I'm not sure how much of a problem this might be. I'll just have to work with TiddlyWiki some more and see how it goes. Thank you for you help! -- dg On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 10:24:48 AM UTC-5, Mark S. wrote: > > This is a weakness in the TW design. The title field is overworked, being > used for 3 different functions. > > Rather than changing all your links, it's better to pick a reasonably > unique and accurate title, and sticking with it. > > If it's important to you to change how a link displays, consider using > PMario's uni-link (https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/uni-link/) . It > will let your links use the "description" field for display. The > description field can be changed at any time without effecting linking. > > To import the plugin, go to the control panel ( > https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/uni-link/#%24%3A%2FControlPanel) and > open the plugins tab. Drag the uni-link over to your TW file. A green bar > should appear. When it does, drop. A tiddler is created for importing. > Click on "import". Then save your TW file and reload (the new plugin > doesn't take effect until after reload). > > Be sure to make a back-up of your TW file before doing this, of course. > > Good luck! > -- Mark > > > On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 6:38:46 AM UTC-8, dg wrote: >> >> I'm a newbie and only an occassional dabbler at TiddlyWiki, so please >> bear with me. >> >> I see that if I rename a Tiddler that TW conveniently offers to rename >> entries in the Lists or Tags fields of other Tiddlers for me. >> >> But if I've used the Tiddler name in the text of another Tiddler -- which >> I do a lot -- those embedded links do not get updated. >> >> There's probably some easy way around this, but please keep in mind I'm >> not even sure how a TW plugin works or how to use them. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> -- >> dg >> > -- 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/53579a53-9a1d-4d4a-a165-b737a1f82f84%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
