Organising mixed Journal and 'Fact/Knowledge Base' Tiddlers

[Jon Light]

Hi

I am a noobie, absolute convert to TiddlyWiki, its just what I have been searching for during my travels through TagSpaces, CherryTree and other places, loving it!!!

Is it possible to have a tiddler that is 'pinned' so as to always appear position one on my home page so that I can filter all tiddlers that have a particular tag so as to create a new view?

Ideally I would like to create views so that clicking on a tag in top pinned tiddler would give me a page listing all tiddlers having that tag.

I would like to add code in the pinned tiddler that listed all tags and so presented me with the option to go to a view showing only tiddlers that have the tag I just clicked on, it would be nice to have a way of getting back to the main selection.

One reason for wanting this is that my TiddlyWiki contains what I might call information based tiddlers and also journal based tiddlers that represent my thoughts and understanding relating to the fact based tiddlers. At the moment my default view shows everything in chronological order, I would like to split the view into one that contained only facts and one that contained only journal tiddlers.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[Eric Shulman]

On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 10:05:26 AM UTC-7, Jon Light wrote:

Is it possible to have a tiddler that is 'pinned' so as to always appear position one on my home page so that I can filter all tiddlers that have a particular tag so as to create a new view?

Try tagging the tiddler with $:/tags/AboveStory.

Note that this only renders the tiddler *content* (i.e., no tiddler frame, titlebar, or tiddler controls), but you can still open that tiddler as a normal part of the Story River to edit it.

-e

[Mat]

Jon Light,

Maybe you should consider the MenuBar plugin which adds a menu along the top edge of the screen.  

<:-)

[TW Tones]

Jon,

There are many ways to achieve something like this. Default tiddlers can be used to load something at the top every time but another way is to use the special tiddler 

$:/config/EmptyStoryMessage

Who's content will appear on using close all

You could transclude the tiddler {{Home}}  and add it to default tiddlers so home loads on starup, and if you close every thing you see home on the background.

This is like a pin one item.

Regards

Tony

[Eric Shulman]

On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 4:41:52 PM UTC-7, TW Tones wrote:

There are many ways to achieve something like this. Default tiddlers can be used to load something at the top every time but another way is to use the special tiddler 

$:/config/EmptyStoryMessage

Both of these methods allow the "pinned" tiddler to be closed as long as there are other tiddlers still showing in the Story River.

-e

[Jon Light]

Many thanks to all, I am working my way through the suggestions - I am also looking at the code in the system tiddler $:/Manager ( when used as tag manager ) for inspiration as to how to automatically list all my tags and to create a view for each tag if clicked.

[Charlie Veniot]

Using a martial arts analogy, I would be a pale-yellow (maybe spotted pale yellow) TiddlyWiki user, which makes me not particularly helpful here.

Please, if you have the opportunity and don't mind, could you share a sample (even if just a screenshot) of whatever final (or stop-gap) solution you adopt?  I'd love to see that in action.

Total aside:

TiddlyWiki is my absolute favourite solution for non-linear (or, as in my case, scatter-brain) writing.  Every once in a blue moon, though, I really enjoy using TreeSheets (mostly because I'm fascinated by the thing.)  When I want a very simple visual of hierarchical information (like I said:  that's a blue moon event), it hits the sweet spot for me.  (TreeSheets can do much more than what I use it for, but I much prefer TiddlyWiki for 99.9% of what I do.)

(Both CherryTree and Zim are quite wonderful for hierarchical note-taking, but they don't work at all for this brain and my mindset:  if it doesn't do transclusion, it is useless to me.  TreeSheets and Vym excluded, when I'm doing small/focused hierarchical stuff or really need to visually map something out.)

Just a few simple TreeSheet output samples:

• https://intertwingularityslicendice.neocities.org/EvolutionaryHistoryOfLife.png
  
• https://intertwingularityslicendice.neocities.org/SeagullMerlinTablature.png
  

Even more total aside:

Can you setup your visible ID (not sure what to call it) so that it doesn't have "gmail.com" in it?  Google Groups gave me some funky warning message about me including an email address in my comments.  Not sure if that's because I clicked on the "..." button to see the details of your message to which I'm replying.