My apologies for the delay, You are correct. I am attempting to make the Monstrous Compendium >
cool However, it is a horrible resource to search, poorly organized, the links > are all over the place and it cannot be searched beyond the index entries. > I spend far too much time sifting through the entries and my books looking > for the stuff I want. What I have been doing is copying the text from the > page to a tiddler then formatting it, copying the image to my hdd and > importing it to the tiddler. Not exactly the most efficient method. But > it keeps it all local on my hdd which is a requirement. > TW will be good, it has tags, fields and data dictionary that will allow you to do all kinda things. I made 2 custom TW's for MMORPG-- (which is basically tabletop RPG taken to a virtual level)-- development and all the ways it can organize and present information makes it a perfect management tool as well as database-- I'm reading Mark S's responses to you to see how I can use them as well-- been at this for just a few months so I hadn't gotten to data dictionaries yet.. The members here will be great assistance-- both Mark S and Tony helped me when I first joined. > I started out building an actual data base with LO. But I found it > started becoming cumbersome, slow and unstable; probably due to the sheer > amount of text. So I turned to personal wiki's. Tiddly seems to be the > best option I have found for this. To this point I have learned how to > make tabs, tables of contents, tags, tables, and how to format the text and > lay out on my tiddlers. Now I need to figure out how to make the > information I use most often searchable; Climate / Terrain, Intelligence, > and Hit Dice. I was thinking fields would be the best way to go, but I am > finding the information available confusing. Reducing the amount typing, > and coding I have to do would be a great bonus but learning how to make my > data searchable should probably be the priority. I have not done any > serious programming since the 90's. And I hated it then. I would love to > find a wysiwyg interface for this. > Fields will be good, not only for searching but if you want to beuild tables, reading from fields is easy to build your tables with. Other users have made some nifty search enhancements-- the official plug in library or Community section on the main TW site will help you find them. Cool thing about TW, is its preview panel, let you see your wikitext markup and html/css in real time as you edit-- love how I can see the table form as I edit it. Be careful of embedding images-- too many can overload your wiki. If possible to have the images in a directory with your images or a set directory there is certain link coding that can display your images without embedding. I use that trick to link to images in several different project directories. Also backup's, especially as your time invested and data gets considerable-- I have lost my TW completely (as in disappeared completely )do to Firefox save crashes. So every time _before I close the browser_ for the day or session, Isave 2 seperate copies in 2 separeate directories and open up the saved copies in another browser window. Once I'm sure my saved copies are readable, then I close the original browser window for the day. Also you may want to have your raw data saved separately somewhere-- an exported json file or on a spreadsheet-- in case you have to restore your starting data. Any help you can give, or point me to a tiddly for dummies type book or > site would be greatly appreciated. > I have several search function trick I'llgladly share-- a tiddler that works with the main search box under the TW title that will search fields (which th search box normally doesn't do) and displays the results in a tiddler on the left (something I learned from one of the group members here), As well as a visual step by step configurable 3 stage filter search/list tiddlers. Not only will it display the end result but also show the pools of tiddlers of each selection step you are selecting from. Using tags it will sort through them and produce lists such as item(s) that is also this, located in this particulararea. Once you learn the filters in it,it would be easy to change the steps and the logic functions such what area has this item(s) but not these second item(s) or what area had this item(s) and this second item(s). Also table templates that show field values and their headers are clickable to sort the values ascending or descending (something I learned from JD McCarty iirc-- I just showed a slight mod to it recently) -- 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. 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