Hi positiv... no worries, if you don't have internal motivation by reading the steps I already put, maybe someone else will. I think my description was clear enough. But here is a second try.
1. Content creators a. Create tiddler b. tag with topic "Botany" and with format "Definitions" (and perhaps there are two tag fields in edit mode, one for topics, one for formats. I mentioned that Gen tags already does this. c. Add text "Botany is the science of bots - robots, nanobots, etc" and save tiddler. d. And so the content creators can 'dump' individual notes quickly that show up automatically in any revelant topics AND any relevant formats. 2. End user (I will upload file to Internet for users to consult) a. Filters and chooses a topic from a dropdown list, similar to the List-search macro. A tiddler is created with the entries tagged with that topic, with entries grouped under headers, the headers being the various formats. Title, Botany, organized by format. The tiddler mentioned in (1) shows up, under the "Definitions" header b. Similar process for choosing a format from a dropdown, and getting a tiddler "Definitions (organized by topic)" with topical headers, and tiddlers appear grouped under them as either links or transclusions. The tiddler above appears under the heading "Botany". c. User also has the option to choose both topic AND format, to produce a tiddler "Botany - Definitions." d. And so the user can read export or print notes, either filtered by two criteria, or filtered by one and organized by the other. I think this could be valuable. I can foresee many usecases besides those I personally am interested in. I am not actually asking anyone to do it. But if someone here agrees it is valuable and has the knowhow to do it, great. If not, no worries. Just sharing an idea to see if there is interest. Blessings. On Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 1:12:00 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > Everything bad is good for someone else. The problem with creating > something from someone else's idea is that there isn't any internal > motivation. Collaboration is much more likely to produce results. > > You should publish a wiki with some "user stories" describing the steps a > user would go through to accomplish something meaningful in their life. > Then I could flesh out the programmatic steps it would take to get those > user steps to work within the reality of a web browser running Javascript > stored in an HTML file, and you can update the wiki with more ideas from > there. This way you can iteratively see the project coming to life, and > gradually learn what trade-offs are needed between theory and reality. > > On Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 6:23:25 AM UTC-7 David Gifford wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Why am I cursed with so many ideas, but so little time and knowhow to >> implement them? I am just going to throw this out there. If anyone thinks >> it is worthwhile to create this, go for it. Not for me, just if you think >> it is genuinely helpful. >> >> Part 1: a content creator adds tiddlers, and tags them by topic, and tags >> them by format (advice, reflection questions, links, definitions, etc). The >> Gen Tags plugin (https://ooktech.com/jed/ExampleWikis/GenericTagFields/) >> might be a good tool for helping the content creator distinguish types of >> tags. Or maybe there is a better tool for that. >> >> Part 2: The end user has a control panel to filter by topic, by format, >> or both: >> >> a) filtering by both and clicking a button produces a tiddler, e.g. >> "Reflection questions on botany" and the text field shows the text fields >> of all tiddlers tagged by the tag "Reflection questions" and the tag >> "Botany". >> >> b) Filtering only by topic produces a tiddler that lists the text field >> of all the tiddlers tagged by that topic, but grouped by format. ("Entries >> on Botany, organized by format") Filtering only by format does the >> opposite, all the tiddlers with that format, grouped by topic ("Reflection >> questions, organized by topic") >> >> There are, obviously, more uses for this than just "topic and format". >> "Topic and source (book)" comes to mind, "Recipes by main ingredient and >> meal type", "Restaurants by location and category", now I am hungry, Songs >> by artist and some other criteria, etc. >> >> There is a tool called Xlists, which crosses categories, and hints at >> what I am getting at, but I am thinking of something that makes it easier >> for both creators and users to quickly view results from combining two >> types of tags. >> >> Anyway, that is my idea for the morning. I think it would be a very >> valuable addition to the TiddlyWiki repertoire. If you do too, and know how >> to create it, please consider it. >> >> Blessings. >> >> -- 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/3e2b742f-814d-4035-aca3-2eb3d6e78febn%40googlegroups.com.
