I think this is a great idea. I've long thought that in a knowledge organization system like TW, search should be a FIRST CLASS entity! Things like a large, central search bar and meaningful navigation, and stratification of results as you've described.
I think something like this should 100% be the next TW priority! On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 9:16:26 AM UTC-5, Petr Bradáč wrote: > > Dear members, > > you may have the same problem: the only way I can remember things is by > having some *context*. How such a context is created depends on how > people actually think. You may recall a person via a place where you met > before. Or a time frame combined with a place. And emotions, maybe. > Probably the most popular scheme for creating a context is > *classification*. People tend to create "boxes" for things because they > need some context (of course, to be able to rule those things later, but it > is a different story). What are we forced to use in the IT world are > *folders* and *tags*. Folders allow for creating a *hierarchy*, but don't > allow to have a thing (a tiddler) to be in more than one folder at the same > time - *just one context only*. Tags on the other hand are *flat* in > structure, but allow for *more than one context*. Tiddlywiki allows for a > combination: *tags hierarchy*. Great! So I developed a system of tags > that helps me recall things quickly. Just to show you what I mean by a > "system of tags": > > 1. Data format > > 1.1 Image > > 1.2 Webpage > > 1.3 Video > > 1.4 ... > > 2. Message form > > 2.1 Report > > 2.2 Tutorial > > 2.3 Overview > > 2.4 Promo > > 3. Topic > > 3.1 Business > > 3.1.1 Marketing > > 3.1.1.1 Content marketing > > 3.1.1.2 SEO > > 3.1.2 Trading > > 3.1.2.1 Stock > > 3.1.2.2 Cryptocurrency > > 3.2 Art > > 3.2.1 Visual > > 3.2.1.1 Typography > > 3.2.1.2 Photography > > 3.2.1.3 Drawing > > 3.2.1.4 Architecture > > 3.2.2 Performing > > 3.2.2.1 Music > > 3.2.2.2 Movie > > 4. Subject > > 4.1 TiddlyWiki > > 4.2 Cisco > > 4.3 Donald Trump > > 4.4 ... > > > What I created is a kind of faceted classification > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification>. Let me describe > my ideal workflow, now: > > Say I came across an interesting post on Medium: *How to write something > that people like to read. * I decided to save it into my TiddlyWiki. With > Tiddlyclip I created new tiddler and added some tags, too: ["Webpage", > "Tutorial", "Content marketing","Typography"]. > > A few weeks later I am writing a blog post to support my business, but I > don't know how to write an interesting copy. Is there anything interesting > in my TiddlyWiki? Let's have a look: First I would type "marketing" into > the *search bar*. Next I want to narrow the fulltext search output to > categories, so I choose "*show me tags only"*. By clicking on a > "Marketing" keyword it will be added to the *search filter*. Now I have a > *list > of filtered tiddlers* from the Marketing *category *and all > *subcategories*. Beside the list of tiddlers there is a *list of related > tags.* What if I want to narrow my search again? I just click on > "Tutorial" (from the related tags list) to add the tag to the filter. There > are now two tags with a logical AND operator. If my list of tiddlers is > still too long, I may narrow it again by choosing "Content marketing". > Voila, my article is there! ;) > > Do you think it is feasible to create something like this? Something what > Amazon has on his pages - a faceted search. Sorry for my complicated > description. > > > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/12ac0a6e-dcbb-416a-bf61-aa434ee13be8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
