Folks, Thanks so far for the feedback. It is productively moving around a range of subjects. TidBitz is a great example of taking universal selector to another level. Please keep the lateral thinking rolling. The idea of drag an drop as a selector was in my original post, what other methods may be available?
For example inspired by this thread imagine a set of drop down filters on the tag edit. For example you may select a filter called status, and the only tags visible would be those also tagged status. This would be away to select tags according to a whole new level of organisation with little or no impact. The advantage of improved selectors is they add functionality but have little effect on any underlying mechanism. Regards Tony On Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 5:07:05 PM UTC+10, TonyM wrote: > > Folks, > > I am keen to solicit information from the community on a concept I am > working on. *A Universal selector*. > > I am keep to obtain you views naive or expert. Please try and keep this > conceptual, but if you must you can get detailed or technical. > > Many of you would realise I am totally committed to tiddlywiki, both > personally and professionally. I am also a conceptual thinker who tries and > maximises the benefits and usability of everything I do in tiddlywiki. I > also believe strongly on obtaining feedback from the community when > developing a concept rather that relying only my own world view. Diversity > of ideas is valuable. I also see the value in brainstorming in the early > phase of solution development. > > The truth be said, be it out community of the clumsy nature of Google > Forums such attempts by me in the past have only generated a little > feedback, but I will open this up again and see. > > It seems to me that one of the more time consuming parts of tiddlywiki is > the process of selecting items, be it tags to use, to tiddlers to tag, a > fieldname or value to assign to a field, or building a list of tiddlers or > possible values. Don't get me wrong, tiddlywiki already handles this very > well, but I wonder if it was able to handle this extremely well, would > tiddlywiki be even more powerful? > > I have a conceptual idea of a way to do this, I am currently in the > initial design phase of this project. However I intentionally do not want > to share any details yet, incase it may color peoples ideas or > expectations. > > Hence this post. Please comment with any ideas you have and no idea is a > bad idea. A little or a lot is fine. > > *The subject I would like your feedback on is;* > > *What do you find you need to select in tiddlywiki, what problems, or > enhancements to the selection process would you like to see, what is your > most common selection methods like searches, filters, tagging and which are > less common because they are more difficult such as selecting a value to > assign to a field. What do you select most often, tags, tiddler titles, > other text or lists, html or css other other information? Do you use radio, > checkboxes, edifields or searches, do you like to drag and drop to select > and reorder items. Do you select text and copy it to the clipboard, or is > selecting dates your biggest issue? What are the best selection methods you > are aware of?* > > *What to I mean universal selector* > > *With the information you provide me I am looking to make an interface > that will allow easy selection of almost anything within tiddlywiki, this > is what I consider a universal selector. The tiddlyverse is the universe in > which it applies, but of course this extends to text, html, urls and > domains or css.* > > *Thanks in advance* > *Tony* > -- 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/bbd82781-99f1-48f2-b9dc-f07182971706%40googlegroups.com.
