What is the difference between fields and viewtemplates?

Tiddlers have the fields; title, tags, text etc and they are(?) all 
viewtemplates. But when I create a custom viewtemplate... does that make it 
a field? And what's the name of that field in that case?

The background for is reply from Jeremy to a question in another 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/tiddlywikidev/ZCVQbwlpvAE>
thread:


>    - Does a ViewTemplate tax the system more than the average tiddler 
>    considering how viewtemplates are transcluded into all other tiddlers? 
>    
> Yes; put more clearly: the view template is highly critical to performance 
> since it impacts each tiddler displayed in the story river.



This makes me think one ought to be able to create tiddler *local 
*"viewtemplates" 
instead. UI-wise a mesh between the text field and a custom field, so that 
any content in that freely named new field is *wikified *and displayed in 
view mode, just like the text field content is.

The occasional times I create viewtemplates, they typically start with a 
filter to test if the current tiddler fulfills some criteria - and the 
typical case is that very few tiddlers to fulfill it, so the viewtemplate 
isn't relevant for the typical tiddler.

So currently; viewtemplates show wikified content in viewmode but are 
global - and custom fields are local but not-wikified and not in viewmode. 
I want the best of both worlds.


<:-)

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