Hi all This post is just to share a vague vision.
1. The problems: a) Tables with cell content of any significant length are in TiddlyWiki get really messy in editing mode. Going back to edit them requires a magnifying glass and patience. b) Table cells with, for example, bulleted lists for content, require transclusion. 2. The inspiration: a) Streams and NotoWritey create new, transcluded lines - external tiddlers that can be edited from within the current tiddler. b) In Roam Research, tables can be created from outlines. c) With the link-to-tabs plugin, a click opens the tiddler for a tab. 3. The idea: What if there were an editor toolbar button that you could use to insert a transcluded tiddler in a table cell? Details: a) The button would create a cell, with an automatically generated title, either a datetimestamp or a title similar to those that Streams generates for each line. b) The tiddler would be transcluded in the table cell similar to how they are transcluded in Streams c) Clicking or doubleclicking the cell (or maybe clicking on an icon that appears on hovering, similar to the link-to-tab plugin) would either open the tiddler in edit mode, or the cell itself would become an edit-text window. Probably the former makes more sense, but the latter is the vision that inspired this whole idea - similar to clicking on an Excel cell and editing it. d) The padding of the transcluded tiddler would need to be reduced somehow so that the table wouldn't be overpadded. That's it. That is my idea for beefing up tables in TiddlyWiki. My original thought was to have it be a new way of doing tables, where every cell created generated a new transcluded tiddler. That would be really cool, where adding table cells would be as easy as adding lines in Streams. But that seems extremely complicated, and an overkill solution, unnecessary for most tables. An editor toolbar button to insert such an "editable transclusion of a new tiddler" similar to what one sees in Streams sounds more realistic. What do you guys think about this idea? Anyone getting inspired to create a new plugin? Streams: https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/streams.html Link to tab plugin: https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/link-to-tabs/ -- 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/e8e699d9-2429-4cd0-b19f-d197f437e98an%40googlegroups.com.
