Adding a note to multiple tiddlers

[Matt]

Hello

I have a group of tiddlers for which a note (written in another tiddler) applies.

What is a good way to link this note to the group of tiddlers? Ideally so that each member of the group will show that there is a note attached.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Mark S.]

There are different ways to approach this, but off hand it sounds like you should put the note in its own tiddler and then link or transclude the note from each tiddler that needs to reference it.

Mark

[Matt]

Thank you for the response.

Do you know way to do something similar to what this person has done: http://tesis.tiddlyspot.com/ ?

Most of his tiddlers (look at 'Capacité' under 'Concepts' for an example) have a little notes button on the bottom

Unfortunately I am not particularly computer literate.

Thanks again.

[Ste Wilson]

Don't know if this might hit the spot?
http://stickynotes.tiddlyspot.com

[Mark S.]

That may not be the simplest example -- I think even if it was in English I would be lost ;-)

What that creator has done is to to add data to fields at the bottom of various tiddlers. Some tiddlers have the word 'note' in the field 'catégorie'. They also have the title of the tiddler to which they are a note in the à_propos_de field. Using a view template keyed to the presence of the word "concept" in the "catégorie" field (along with the help of several transclusions), the notes appear at the bottom of concept tiddlers .

I'm not sure why he/she decided to use the category field rather than just tagging tiddlers per their role. Perhaps he/she wanted to keep the tag space free for the actual data terms. I think I would use tags more and then subtract the role tags from the data tags whenever I wanted to display a lot of tags. I believe this code would have to be rewritten if it were used in TW 5.1.14, because it makes use deprecated regular expression syntax.

This might not be the best example or approach for a beginner.

Good luck!
Mark

[Matt]

haha I guess I won't worry about anything like that for now!

I have tried to do what you initially suggested, putting a note in its own tiddler then linking to it at the bottom of any tiddler it refers to.

The main problem that I have run into is that if I want to transclude a tiddler I generally don't want a list of notes to be included with it.

So far I have tried using a 'note' field and entering the title of the the note I want to link to, and then including the following template:

<$list filter="[all[current]has[note]]">

<$navigator story="MySubStoryList" history="MySubHistoryList">

<hr>

Notes: {{!!note}}


<$list filter="[list[MySubStoryList]]" history="MySubHistoryList">
<div>

! <$button message="tm-close-tiddler" class="tc-btn-invisible">{{$:/core/images/close-button}}</$button> <$view field="title"/>

<$transclude/>
</div>
</$list>

</$navigator>

</$list>

This presents a few problems:

1. It seems a little inelegant.
2. I do not know how to make {{!!note}} present as a link without including square brackets in the field entry.
3. It does not allow for multiple notes to be linked.

Do you have a better way to do this, or a possible solution to the above problems?

Thank you very much for your time.

[Birthe C]

Hi Matt,

http://tesis.tiddlyspot.com was created by Alberto Molina, who later created the bottomtabs/magictabs and others. They are older now. They were very much loved but complicated and difficult to change. Jan was inspired by them to create something very useful but easier for the user to change: MetaTabs http://slidesnstories.tiddlyspot.com/#About%20MetaTabs


Birthe

[Matt]

That is almost exactly what I need, except that it does not seem to allow you to add the same note to multiple tiddlers.

Is there any way to do this?

[Birthe C]

Hi Matt,

I am using version of MetaTabs a little older and different i some ways with a field source. I think  it is called origin in the latest version. Write a note to a tiddler and open the link to the tiddler. Find the field origin or what it is called now and write the titles of the tiddlers you want to show the note. remember to put [[Around the title]].

I have not testet this in the latest version of MetaTabs.
Birthe