Agreed. I'm always trying to convince the writers I know to give TW a spin, and this is one of those simple mechanics which turn out to be super useful. Whether they are building character bibles, graphing their plots, or mind-mapping their epistemic periphery, placeholders are outstanding "to-do" or even "maybe" flags sitting in your writing. For me, it's an organization tool helping me break bigger problems down into smaller ones, and it helps me explicitly state to myself that I need to expand or connect something in the first place. When I'm in the flowstate, I don't have time write in every direction I'm thinking; I have to triage. Placeholders help me leave the breadcrumbs necessary to come back and iteratively grow some web of thought.
There's another kind of placeholder I use as well. Sometimes, I have something to say, but I don't quite know where to put it or what I should name it. I need to get it out on a page and worry about how to categorize it later. "Create a new tiddler" automatically applies "PH" to my title. Sometimes I'll spin up several placeholder tiddlers until I've figured out how they fit into the bigger picture and why. On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 6:31 AM @TiddlyTweeter <[email protected]> wrote: > Here we tend to focus on technical solutions to technical problems. > > That is good. > > But I think we often underplay the obvious for potential users. We > under-promote what we have already normally. > > For a moment *consider TW as a Writing Medium*, by which I mean normal > authors of fiction or fact. > > One outstanding thing is that you can so easily create "placeholders". A > ref to a Tiddler that does NOT yet exist. That is exactly like many > people's writing process. You know you need to "fill in gaps" later to make > better writings. TW facilitates that very well indeed. > > For instance a writer needs to know they can write a text referencing > stuff they need to expand on but haven't written the expansions yet. TW > EASILY provides the "placeholders" for these. > > This simple mechanism is not advertised enough IMO. > > Best wishes > Josiah > > > > -- > 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/7d6e7074-a1f5-4000-a600-c91a070d81a1%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7d6e7074-a1f5-4000-a600-c91a070d81a1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CA%2B9%3DmKhzLpZ9AEayMkHPfC0wk_6pHH61B_A3RgkPKkz%2BDPy9YQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
