On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 3:31:18 AM UTC+2, Diego Mesa wrote: > > This is a good idea - but my concern is not so much about how to create > and ensure I have a unique title. Its more that these methods cause me to > question the entire *idea* and *meaning* of a tiddler title under these > circumstances >
On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 3:31:18 AM UTC+2, Diego Mesa wrote: > > This is a good idea - but my concern is not so much about how to create > and ensure I have a unique title. Its more that these methods cause me to > question the entire *idea* and *meaning* of a tiddler title under these > circumstances > When you start with TiddlyWiki, the tiddler title is "plain text". ... That's a good thing, because it's simple. - Plain text titles tend to be long. ... - That's why they may not fit nicely into TOCs - So why we introduced the "caption" field. That's a good solution, but it already increases complexity. ... Users need to know about the caption field, and where the core UI automagically uses it. eg: lists, tabs, ... and so on. At the moment that's as far as "the core UI" goes. --------------------------------------- Using plugins, you can go further. ... Using plugins is a "user decision" ... So advanced users know, what they are doing ;) The uni-link plugin <https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/uni-link/> allows you to use the "caption" and "subtitle"-field to be shown instead of a [[tiddler link]] without breaking backwards compatibility. The alias-function goes even further, it allows you to reference a tiddler, by a completely different alias-name. It abstracts away the "tiddler-title", by *signifacally increasing complexity*. eg: - a lot more documentation is needed - a new [[link syntax|?]] is needed ... (still not breaking backwards compatibility) - new javscript code is needed to speed things up. - ViewTemplate extensions are needed to identify alias tiddler (see alias-footer) - new link-colors are introduced to make alias links visible for users - ... At the moment that's as fare as uni-link goes -------------------- Creating a new theme can go even further: eg: slant-01 <https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/slant-01/> is an opinionated theme. I use it as a starting point for my TWs (+ a lot of my other plugins <https://wikilabs.github.io/>) - It scales down the tiddler title in the view-template, to make it less dominant. - This allows me to use real h1-headings in the tiddler content. - This makes tiddler content reusable - Especially in combination with the new upcomming tv-adjust-heading-level <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#tv-adjust-heading-level%20Variable> variable it will be a "killer" - The tiddler title is nothing but an identifier anymore. - Once it is defined, it will never be changed again - having good tiddler names is hard !!!!!! - that's just a convention. - my tiddler titles need to be human readable (so UUIDs are a no go!) - my tiddler titles (should) create nice URL links. - eg: https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/slant-01/#01-slant-01-theme - this rule will be broken, if the use-case needs it! In combination with uni-link and the alias function I think it's almost possible to eliminate tiddler titles. BUT to fully eleimnate them, the theme would need to be expanded quite a bit. ... Which is *complex *;) just some thougts have fun! mario -- 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/3cf0a2bd-c3de-4216-8a77-a227a89115d0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
