On Monday, November 18, 2013 12:17:12 PM UTC-8, Mat wrote: > > All forms of TW are too slow for comfortably using it as a notebook... > which is ironic considering it is described explicitly as that: a notebook. > Try using it for taking notes during a lecture or brainstorm or just any > activity that demands many tiddlers, and you'll see. Not talking typing > speed. It's the: > Many steps. And yes, I'm sure you have one or two tricks to speed up this. > Fast keys and stuff. Too many steps anyway - for a notebook. >
Although the basic tiddler creation/editing interaction isn't ideally suited to your particular use case, the power of TiddlyWiki is in the ability to easily customize the interface to match your needs. In this case, you might like to take a look at: http://www.tiddlytools.com/#QuickNotePlugin http://www.tiddlytools.com/#QuickNotePluginInfo This plugin provides a macro that inserts a simple input form that permits multi-line input and generates a tiddler title automatically as well as adding any optional, pre-specified tags. One way to add this maccro to your TW document is to customize the PageTemplate by adding this line: <div id='noteArea' macro='quickNote tiddler:"" dateformat:"YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm" tags:"tag1 tag2 tag3..."'></div> immediately before this line: <div id='tiddlerDisplay'></div> That will add the QuickNotePluginPanel form to the top of your story column. You can then enter text into the form and press "save" to quickly create (or append) new content in a tiddler. By default, the QuickNote tiddler title is simply your current TW username, with an optional date/time stamp added (using the 'dateformat' param). You can replace the username in the title with any other text value by using the 'tiddler' param. In the above example, the tiddler param is blank (an empty pair of double quotes) so that the title is generated using only a datetime value, formatted down to the minute. Any quick notes saved within the same minute are *appended* to the same tiddler, whie the overall note taking activity can create many timestamped tiddlers reflecting your active "stream of consciousness". By default, the QuickNote tiddler title input is non-editable. If you want to manually edit the QuickNote tiddler title, you can modify the QuickNotePluginPanel shadow tiddler definition and remove the "disabled" keyword from the title input field in the HTML form; otherwise, the title field cannot be edited by hand. (Note: if you are manually entering tiddler titles, then you do not want to use any automatic 'dateformat', as this causes the title field to be updated once per second, overwriting any hand edits you are attempting.) enjoy, -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios EVERY DONATION IS IMPORTANT! HELP ME TO HELP YOU - MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO MY "TIP JAR"... http://TiddlyTools.github.com/fundraising.html#MakeADonation Professional TiddlyWiki Consulting Services... Analysis, Design, and Custom Solutions: http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Contact -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
