Automatic Linking, possible in TiddlyWiki?

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Radium

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May 19, 2016, 6:57:53 PM5/19/16
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Hello,

I'm deciding to store a very very large pile of text data inside TiddlyWiki, and the scale and complexity of the text is so high that I will start forgetting existing tiddler titles very soon.

So, I need a feature to automate the linking process for me:
Whenever there's a piece of text in a tiddler that matches the title of another tiddler, it becomes a link to that tiddler automatically.

It is very essential for me.
How can I get this feature?

Danielo Rodríguez

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May 21, 2016, 2:45:48 PM5/21/16
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This has been discussed several times. It is doable, but it would be too costly to do it in real time. This means that you can write a plugin that creates links when you save the tiddler, but once you add new content you will be forced to update all the Tiddlers. It's not an easy task

Mark S.

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May 21, 2016, 3:34:09 PM5/21/16
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You wouldn't have to update all the tiddlers -- just the tiddlers you wanted to view AND needed to be up-to-date. If the user wanted to be sure that all links in the specified tiddler were current, they would edit/save the tiddler. Or there could be a tool that would be occasionally run to bring all the tiddlers up to date. This way the work-flow would only be interrupted on an as-needed basis.

Mark

Mat

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May 22, 2016, 12:44:21 PM5/22/16
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I also think this would be very cool and useful.

In TW2 (i.e the earlier version of TW) fellow Tobias had (has!) the very interesting LinkifyPlugin for exactly this.

...and of course; if you use purely CamelCased tiddler titles, then you automatically get links.

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