I think Tobias wanted to establish a new term "swarm" with his post. A 
swarm is a collection of tiddlers, that are "content only" tiddlers. ... 
but a swarm has some "magic behaviour attached"

At some point it would be really neat if it was possible to send ones swarm 
> looking for updates at home, returning back with updates ...without going 
> to the remote site to manually fetch them with a brailer.
>

In the first post, he suggested, to use the TiddlyWiki browser based plugin 
creation mechanism [1], to create a swarm. 
The problem with this mechanism (description) is, that it is a bit 
developer centric. So imo it got ignored in the rest of the thread, because 
plugins are collection of tiddlers, that are program tiddlers. 

At the time of his first post, there wasn't the TW export function. .. But 
now we have one!

So if you want to create a tiddler collcetion just use the "export tiddler" 
button for single tiddlers. ... if you only need one tiddler. ... Which 
isn't a swarm :/

Solution (without the magic update stuff)
----------------------

If you open the "Advanced search panel: Filters tab" you can create your 
own collections. eg:

[tag[TableOfContents]]

If you use this in the filter field, you'll get a list of 12 tiddlers, that 
are tagged TableOfContents. 
To the right of the filter input field you get the "export tiddlers" button 
with 4 possibilities: 

 - export as CSV
 - export as JSON
 - river of tiddlers as static HTML
 - a .tid file 

If you use JSON, you'll get a file "tiddlers.json" that can be directly 
imported into other TWs, with drag and drop from the file browser. 

If you want to call this "tiddlers.json" file a swarm, ... well ... then it 
is a swarm. I'd call it a "user defined collection", but "swarm" is less 
technical :))

 ---- some more remarks to follow

have fun!
mario

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