Only slightly on topic...My title-vs-text issue has to do with 
alphabetization in lists, especially in Spanish. In English we don't put 
articles in front of abstract nouns. So a list of tiddlers of virtues might 
include Courage, Patience, Self-control, Wisdom. No problem. But in Spanish 
it would be La valentia, la paciencia, el dominio propio, la sabiduria. So 
an alphabetical list would end up ordering the articles (el and la). Makes 
it hard to find things in a list unless you use the list-search plugin, 
which sometimes I don't want to do. 

At times I have added an 'order'field, added the term without the article 
and sorted by order or filename. And I have done it the other way around, 
where the tiddler title is Sabiduria, and a 'viewtitle' field is 'La 
sabidurĂ­a', and I hide the title and show the viewtitle field. That way 
searches and lists are in alphabetical order, and exporting to static 
avoids all the %20's, etc.

And, more on topic, I have often had systems that created tiddlers with 
datetimestamps, so that the title IS irrelevant, and I can use 'newhere' to 
generate individual notes on a topic that transclude to the parent topic. 
The problem of course is that searches turn up datetimestamps, and ordering 
thoughts in a topic requires opening them and giving them titles in a 
specific order.

Dave

On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 5:30:38 AM UTC-5, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>
> This is one of those offtopic/ontopic things.
>
> The filtering mechanism in TW is very orientated to "titles first".
>
> MY problem is that I often have *TEXT that is more meaningful than its 
> title*.
> The title is merely a placeholder (till later).
>
> For instance ...
>
> Title: "Working Title #247"
>> Text: "When Willowy goes for donuts the cicadas sing.
>> In harmony."
>
>
> Title: "Working Title #595"
>> Text: "Willowy is an instrument of
>> Thomos The Third."
>
>
> 1 - How do I SEE all lines containing "Willowy"?
>
> 2 - How do I correct "Willowy" to "Willowby"?
>
> You see here the *irrelevance* of "Title", yes?
>
> Is TW a *text-base* or a *title-base?*
>
> TT
>

-- 
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 view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f7046223-0c74-4fd1-86d6-3f803d39ffc7%40googlegroups.com.

Reply via email to