Idea for cross referencing sections of tiddlers

[Rob Hoelz]

Hi fellow TiddlyWiki users!

I had an idea for something while using my TiddlyWiki, and I wanted to solicit feedback from the community to see if there are other approaches before I put pen to paper, or...code to editor, I guess, in plugin form.

So one of the things I use TiddlyWiki for is a developer journal - I like to write down each day what I worked on, things I learned, things I read about, questions I have, etc.  I'll typically have a paragraph under a heading
for each one (ex. "! Today I Learned About the count widget␤␤The count widget counts the number of tiddlers that match a filter").  The problem is that after two years of journal entries, skimming over my learnings
has proven tricky.

My idea (currently implemented as a dumb macro) is to have a TIL widget (and an Interesting Article Widget, and a Question Widget, etc) that would write the summary to a table or something in another tiddler for
easier browsing.  This would make skimming my TILs easier, along with searching for them.  I'm thinking of calling these "stamps", mainly because there's a similar function on the map in the game Breath of the Wild,
which I'm currently obsessed with. =)

What do you all think of this idea?  Is this worth fleshing out into a plugin?  Or is there a more obvious solution in front of my face that I'm not seeing?

Thanks,
Rob

[Jed Carty]

It sounds like a good idea and if you have a good setup it will probably be used a lot. I would suggest that you look at templates because that is going to be the best way to do what you want.

Templates are one of the things that don't have nearly enough documentation, I have a tiny bit here: http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Making%20templates

And on the main tiddlywiki.com there is some here: http://tiddlywiki.com/#TemplateTiddlers

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi Rob

Maybe you want to have a look at these tools I made:

Extract macro: https://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#Extract%20Macro

With this it should be possible to extract something from your tiddlers, e.g. the part after a standard title up to the next "." or "!".

Listreveal plugin: https://tid.li/tw5/plugins.html#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftelmiger%2Flistreveal%2Freadme:%5B%5BGet%20More%20Plugins%5D%5D%20%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftelmiger%2Flistreveal%2Freadme%20ToDoNow%20%24%3A%2FControlPanel

With this you could generate a list of tiddler-extracts with the option to open/see a whole tiddler directly in the list with the click of a button.

Good luck!
Thomas

[Rob Hoelz]

 Thanks for the feedback, both of you!  Thomas, your extract macro looks like exactly the counterpart I need to extract the TILs and friends into their own tiddler.  Thanks for writing and suggesting it!

-Rob