Cardo vs. mGSD

[fadi75...@gmail.com]

Hi everybody,

This is my first post here, so just a small background: I discovered TiddlyWiki quite a long ago. I'm not sure exactly when, but probably from the early days and I was hooked. Kudos to Jeremy and everyone who contributed to this great project.

I know I'm very late in my thanks but it wasn't easy for me to communicate back!

Anyway, being a fan of Wikis and being able to create ones on the fly in a single standalone HTML file was great.

I later found out mGSD which I started to use to organize my life, also not sure when, but probably more than 7 years ago.

Of course when TW5 started, I would from time to time to search if mGSD was ported, but not, so I continued using it with TWC.

And a few months ago I found Cardo, and I was delighted, because TW5 of course had very interesting features beyond TWC.

So this brings me to the topic I want to raise.

I'm now using both mGSD and Cardo in different contexts, and I have to say, although Cardo is very promising, I still miss some of the mGSD features.

I'm not a software developer, but I can do a little bit of hacking here in there, and I'm really interested to contribute back into Cardo, especially to implement more interesting features.

So my first question is: What do I need to do:What is the best setup to do that (usually I'm editing TW5 files in-place (in the browser), but it seems that probably more advanced coding could/should be done with a proper editor, and with separate text files.

The most missed feature for me is recurring ticklers.

By this I mean a tickler that can be configured to repeat, and instead of a checkbox, it will have a button to change the due date, there was a plugin for mGSD that added this feature.

And a final question: How can I create new Dashboards? I've tried to create a new tiddler and add there a macro call to create some custom lists, but it was clear that these behaved differently from normal dashboards.

For dashboards you can't actually edit the title when editing it. And they respect the setting that makes them open at the top of the story list, but normal tiddler are not obeying that and open differently.

Thank you for any insights,

Fadi

[David Szego (Cardo)]

Hi Fadi. Thanks for the compliments.

Ticklers are now called Reminders, they automatically repeat if it's not set to "once". So, "Daily", "Weekly", "Monthy" and "Yearly" really are that.

For Dashboards, open an existing dashboard (they're Shadow Tiddlers) such as "Completed Projects" and you'll see the structure... They all call various <<cardoList>> macros with parameters to determine what to show. It's a bit much to get into it here in this post, but I really should document them. At the least, you can cut and paste parts of dashboards into a custom dashboard of your own quite easily.

You can't edit their titles once they have the field "cardo-type" = "dashboard" ... If you remove that field (programmatically), or create a new dashboard but don't set that field yet, you'll see it like a normal Tiddler. This is from behaviour in $:/plugins/Cardo/ui/ViewTemplates/types

Cheers,
David Szego

[Fadi Mansour]

Thank you David, I'm already enjoying Cardo, but maybe I need more time to get used to the different structure and names.

Cheers,

Fadi

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