[TW5] Tiddlytime plugin

[Andrew]

Hello again everyone. If you would like to see how I created a clock to display as a button in the toolbar check out this Tiddlytime plugin. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Andrew

Congratulations, you’re on quite a roll with your recent releases.

I particularly like your TiddlyTime plugin. Writing the current time to a tiddler and transcluding it where needed is a powerful technique.

Very early on, I experimented with including the same thing in the core but I found that the 1 second timer has a very significant impact on battery life, so I’d advise caution when using on laptops or smartphones.

One trick that may help alleviate the problem is to use the page visibility API to suppress the timer when the tab containing the wiki is hidden:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API

Best wishes

Jeremy.

On 13 Oct 2015, at 05:09, Andrew <andrew.j....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello again everyone. If you would like to see how I created a clock to display as a button in the toolbar check out this Tiddlytime plugin. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

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[Alex Hough]

Jeremy and Andrew

Can I ask why it is a powerful technique.... what can it be used for?

Alex

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[c pa]

>> Can I ask why it is a powerful technique.... what can it be used for?

It can be used for time stamping activities. For instance if you wanted a time tracker for a legal office you could put a button , start / stop activity which would mark and stamp items and then tie that to billable activities so you could auto generate your bills. Or to auto set a tickler based on conditions, say follow up in 3 days ypou could set a timestamp for follow-up and then have a follow-up tiddler that displayed all things marked followup with date in the past and no "done" tag.

Or on a project plan, you could set start / end dates on tasks. Or based on a previous tasks end date set the next tasks start date. You could level an entire schedule this way with cascading date sets.

etc.

[Tobias Beer]

Hi c pa,

I think it's worth demonstrating a handful of these options on your demo site,

so it becomes more visible what this is indeed very useful for

.. and perhaps realize what options might be missing as of yet.

Best wishes,

— tb

[c pa]

OK here's a quick demo at

http://cpashow.tiddlyspot.com/#:[[Task%202]]%20[[Task%201]]