iamdar, I had not seen that yet and it's got some cool workflows in it, so thanks for pointing it out, but it's not exactly what I was asking about…I am looking more for thoughts on the structure of tiddlers, metadata, and navigation options that I'll have when I'm *done* writing and relating notes, rather than an effective way to go about doing the writing.
Mat, > You mention that Lolita gave you a lot of ideas, so how are those ideas different from what you get out of non-fiction? The ideas may be different in that there are more layers of metaphor involved? Like, a lot of the ideas are not explicitly stated (and some of my tiddlers might explicitly state transformative readings, while others might not). Mostly, though, my sense is that a different kind of organization may be required to make optimal sense of them. In non-fiction I generally do not care where the ideas came from once I've read the book, unless perhaps I am later trying to cite them in something I write, so a quick reference to the source is sufficient, and all the interlinking and classification happens between idea tiddlers. With fiction the context and the relationships with other things that happen in the source is much more important to understanding...a whole novel can't really be deconstructed into pieces in the same way that a textbook or even a thesis-driven book can. So I feel like some kind of cross-referencing and mechanism for tying things back to the text would be valuable. I do not know how exactly that would work or what it would do, which is why I'm curious if anyone else has developed something. Not afraid of trying some things myself either. :-) > Do you have a goal with your reading? Maybe to write your own book, or to extract human wisdom, or to just remember as much of a good book as possible, or to write literary critique, or... etc,etc... Yes? I think that's part of the problem, haha. But it's also why I use TiddlyWiki instead of something else, because it is capable of supporting these kind of mixed uses in a way that few other tools are. My immediate goal in writing notes in TiddlyWiki is to increase my understanding of what I just read, but I hope that this understanding will stick around and could be taken in any of those directions in the future if it later makes sense. On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 5:10:20 PM UTC-5 Mat wrote: > @Soren - what is it you want out of it? You mention that Lolita gave you a > lot of ideas, so how are those ideas different from what you get out of > non-fiction? Do you have a goal with your reading? Maybe to write your own > book, or to extract human wisdom, or to just remember as much of a good > book as possible, or to write literary critique, or... etc,etc... > > <:-) > -- 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/97be42a6-73c0-4271-8cdd-4b8b8a28719bn%40googlegroups.com.
