On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 8:35:48 AM UTC-5, Nicholas Spies wrote: > > For years, I have written a large amount of autobiographical, ideas and > such using the mind mapping (hierarchical) program FreeMind. In > transferring the data from FreeMind to TW5 I came up with the following > scheme to retain the hieerarchical nature of the data, which though not > ideal, does put the data in context, making navigation among related date > quite easy. > > For example: to represent a node (tiddler) named "CMU1 Staff GUI Desgn > People" I have put, directly under the Tags the following: > NS > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_NS> > ⬅︎ Schooling > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_Schooling> > ⬅︎ Actual Schooling > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_Actual%20Schooling> > ⬅︎ College > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_College> > ⬅︎ Carnegie Mellon University > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_Carnegie%20Mellon%20University> > ⬅︎ CMU1 > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_CMU1> > ⬅︎ CMU1-CAT > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_CMU1-CAT> > ⬅︎ Took at CMU1-CAT > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_Took%20at%20CMU1-CAT> > ⬅︎ ◉ ● Brad Meyers > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_Brad%20Meyers> > ●Nicholas Spies > <#CAJaQ20eCxC3yWB=T=9Eny8aRZSgVeOzV8BK=0hMpPOQ=XtMrLg@mail.gmail.com_Nicholas%20Spies> > > Each is a link that the arrow (which could have easily been "/" as in a > file system) points to is a tiddler that are based on the root "NS", that > is myself. The large dot represents the current tiddler, whose title is > perfectly evident at the tiddler title, while to the right of the dot are > the first level of subtopics , that happen not to be realized (yet) as > tiddlers, namely two people who attended this staff seminar on GUI design: > Brad Meyers and myself, who are at equal levels from the current > node/tiddler, because at this point I am just trying to reconstruct who > attended this semester-long seminar. Perhaps later I will structure the > seminar, putting Brad Meyers, the leader of the seminar on his own level, > with attendees at a lower level, each with their (assigned) topics and > presentations beneath each participant, etc. > > If I were to realize this as tags, I would have to order them from left to > right, which I believe is possible (but don't know where I do it), and use > the top item of each tag to "walk" back down to the root. Under each tag > pull-down menu there would be a listing of every tiddler containing the > tag, but the order of the hierarchy would be lost because the menus are > alphabetized. There is likely some way to fix this problem too, but it is > not at all evident where this type of ordering takes place, either. > > In the end, it seems that TiddlyWiki is just not prepared to deal with > this sort of organizational paradigm without at lot of behind-the-scenes > manipulation of meta-data to order tags and their contents, taking more > time than the method I have devised, although far from perfect, at least > works and is more or less self-evident. > > It suggests that there could be another layer of qusi-tags, shaped as they > are but with an arrow to the left, which are simply links to some previous > tiddler in a hierarchy of tiddlers, and then another shape, perhaps > incorporating a bullet, to indicate the subtopics of the current tiddler. > > Then again, I may be entirely wrong on this score, and would like to know > what the TW way, that is already implemented, of solving this problem might > be . > > BTW: I find it very annoying that tidder fields are only one line, because > their contents may be many lines, making it necessary to copy and paste > them into a text editor to even see their contents, much less to edit them. > For development, such fields could be multiple lines, while for > distribution they could easily be hidden from view, it they are perceived > to be an eyesore. >
This can be fixed. See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywikidev/edit-text/tiddlywikidev/PoKze6ZoDfA/ozhWnr7ceG0J > > --Nick > -- 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/d/optout.
