WHitWoT #3 (Jan 15-22, 2008)
Daniel Baird
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/2008/01/whitwot-3-jan-15-22-2008.html
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WHitWoT #3 (Jan 15-22, 2008)
Welcome to the third edition of "What Happened in the World of
TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short.
WHitWoT summarises what's happened lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing
list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki world.
!News, New Stuff and Updated Stuff
!!!!TiddlyWiki Vox Pop
Alex Hough started a thread on the discussion list asking what you
like about TiddlyWiki, and what you use it for.
The responses are all worth a look. I especially liked Eric's "ways
to explain what TiddlyWiki is".
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/63c4c9d759a531d8
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!!!!New theme -- moz-inspired
Adrian announced a new theme "moz-inspired", modified from K2WS, that
was inspired by the old Mozilla Firefox look. It may or may not make
it to tiddlythemes.com :)
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/76caaf803eb25df7
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!!!!My Notes TiddlyWiki: new version - 2.1
Dave Gifford released a major upgrade to his "My Notes TiddlyWiki".
This adaptation is great for collecting notes when doing research, and
it handles bibliographic data too. Check out the announcement thread
for discussion including EndNote and Zotero.
[source] http://www.giffmex.org/emptynotestw.html
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/3f9caf4bf63f490a
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!!!!TiddlersBar now supports keypress switching between tabs
The latest version of TiddlersBar (version 1.2.5) now supports
switching to next and previous tabs with Alt + Shift + (key). The
plugin has options to set the actual keys used.
[source] http://visualtw.ouvaton.org/VisualTW.html#TiddlersBarPlugin
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/b637fb983e54727f
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!!!!ImageSizePlugin does what it says on the box
The inimitable Eric Shulman has produced a new plugin that lets you
specify image size like this:
[img(50%,100px)[image.jpg]]
I reckon there's all sorts of awesome things you could do with a
percentage-sized image that adjusts to your browser size. And bonus
points for a demo that appears to show a cat being sucked into a black
hole.
[source] http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ImageSizePlugin
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!!!!TiddlerEncryptionPlugin can now forget passwords
Lyall Pearce's latest update to TiddlerEncryptionPlugin now offers the
option to forget passwords (instead of caching them for the duration
of the session). This might be useful if you want to leave your TW
open all day, but only occasionally need to check your encrypted info.
[source] http://remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlerEncryptionPlugin.html#TiddlerEncryptionPlugin
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/12434a89811b5e23
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!Online Discussions
!!!!Synchronising between TiddlyWikis
David Masterson asked about syncing between TiddlyWikis for
distributing project management tasks. FND and Eric mentioned
RippleRap[1] and ImportTiddlersPlugin[2] respectively, but I'm not
sure they completely cover the use case David originally suggested.
Hopefully the community will be able to come up with a solution for
this space.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/8daf5fc88ce2210e
[1] http://www.ripplerap.com
[2] http://www.tiddlytools.com/#ImportTiddlersPlugin
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!!!!Using multiple TiddlyWikis at once
Dave Gifford described his interesting arrangement for using several
TWs at once. He uses a parent TiddlyWiki that contains iframes in
which he loads the child TWs. Eric pointed out his FramedLinksPlugin
that also uses iframes to load links.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/0528ba5b5491cd01
[3] http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#FramedLinksPlugin
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!!!!Using highlighting in TiddlyWiki
Digital Doctor requested a prescription for using alternate colours
when @@highlighting@@. Eric Shulman's answer would have put this into
WHitWoT's Quick Shots secion, except there was a big discussion
afterward about how to incorporate CSS into your TiddlyWiki that
covered stuff like transcluding[4] other CSS stylesheets into the
StyleSheet tiddler, and Eric was even inspired to update his QuickEdit
toolbar[5] to have a swatch palette.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/bf769083afbbbf9a
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion
[5] http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_format
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!!!!Checklists
Xavier Vergés asked about the best way to do checklists in TiddlyWiki.
This is something that Simon and I have discussed in a GTD context
before, so the suggestions here were particularly interesting.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/79cd4064f4005579
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!!!!Custom formats for the TagglyTagging list?
Kashgarinn asked about doing a custom format for the TagglyTagging
list, for example to include phone numbers in the tagglylist of your
Contacts tiddler. Simon Baird proposed using HideWhen[6] to
selectively replace the tagglylist with a ForEachTiddler[7]
construction. This is an interesting idea, I'd like to see an working
example.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/0ab6d8d9fb58671a
[6] http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#HideWhenPlugin
[7] http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#ForEachTiddlerPlugin
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!Quick Shots
Rounded corners on tables:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/9406e95473bfa4cb
Preventing download of a tiddlyspot site:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/d56e6e9509c7755e
Copy text to clipboard:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/aa8ef66fce64a324
Hide the tag box:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/cbc085e04b571f78
Edit table cells with a doubleclick:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/c27569c967e316dc
Close the popup message window after a few seconds:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/b68234b7d6aca313
Set up TiddlyWiki to "revert" edits:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/353e12cc22f84aac
FreeMind oh-so-close to working with TiddlyWiki:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/149c8178319d9785
List of tiddlers with *both* tag A and tag B:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/7fb6fec63434c84c
Change how MPTW displays tags:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/9e4c4b9ae5349ad4
Supress the tool tip on tiddler links:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/dd469241a45c7d72
YourSearchPlugin needs double quotes to find hyphens:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/d61450d5bca0b031
Open tiddlers in sliders:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/23219d1f1d229e66
How to recover from a broken EditTemplate:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/320e36bb14211d7c
"Lock in" a TagglyTagging sort option:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/9e63781dd7da5df9
TagglyTagging can show just the right amount of excerpt:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/f7175b0af7a5276c
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!!!Postdrivel
Quite a bit of TagglyTagging talk in this edition. If you haven't
tried TagglyTagging before, check out Simon's tutorial and FAQ at
http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/
;Daniel
!!!About WHitWoT
WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google
Group by Daniel Baird. Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki fan, runs
tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame, and
wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still there.
Find (and subscribe to) WHitWoT at Daniel's blog:
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/search/label/WHitWoT
..and posted ocasionally at the TiddlyWiki Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki
Dave Gifford - http://www.giffmex.org/
Thank you so much for this excellent service to the TW community. Out
of gratitude I am going to name my first child Daniel. Oh, wait, I did
that 13 years ago. But seriously, these are great. Thank you!
Dave Gifford
matt...@gmail.com
digests are excellent.