Book tracking for the reading enthusiast

[Julio Peña]

Hello everyone,

For those of you who like to read. 

I have devised a book list for my use in my off-line Tiddlywikis. 

When you go to the site click on the "featured samples" tab. 

Any improvements and suggestions are welcomed. 

http://jpentw5.tiddlyspot.com/

I thought I would share as it would be beneficial to some.

Stay safe all,

Julio

[Birthe C]

Julio Peña,

Interesting and nice looking.

The main thing is of couse how you keep track of you books. I might go for it too.

I wonder how you make use of Task-Dates? I have tried to make that one work for a very long time now. Jed had a nice example but i never found out how.

Birthe

[Jed Carty]

I like the site. It is always very strange to see things on other peoples wikis and think 'I was going to make something like that' and then realising that they are using what I made and forgot about. I am glad that they are getting use, but I need to update a lot of things.

Somewhere I have a library tracker I made to keep track of who was borrowing what books from me, and then to help organise when I moved to France. I will try and find it.

Once I get Bob working how I want it I am planning on going back through a lot of my plugins so that I can hopefully start using them effectively.

[Birthe C]

Jed,

Would that be https://ooktech.com/jed/externalbrain/#Dashboard library Tracker?

I am using a lot of what you have made. Categorylist to name the one I use most often. I would wouldn't I after all the time I spend translating some of the things ;-).

No wonder you have a hard time remembering it all, you made so much nice stuff.

We have that, and it should not distract you in any way from your important work on Bob and twederation.

Thank you so much for all the goodies,

Birthe

[Julio Peña]

Hey there,

@Birthe: For now I just use my Task-dates as a very basic journal of sorts (in my off-line wikis), 

Ever since I saw Jed's creation I was like this is it, I want to use it!

I can just click on the specific date and bingo just write.

And it's easier to keep track of specific dates.

Yeah, Birthe, like they say necessity is the mother of invention.

I had a couple of books I wanted to read over a couple of months and now I can keep up with my books.

If it wasn't for all of you in the community and your ideas I wouldn't have been able to motivate myself.

@Jed: Glad you like it...coming from some in the community who are gurus...makes me feel good!

Update: Wow your library tracker is sophisticated! That one is awesome for a full production environment!

Best wishes,

Julio

[Jed Carty]

Yes, that. I am glad someone is keeping track of where I put things because I certainly am not.

I wasn't aware that you were translating some of what I made. Is there something I can do to make it easier?

[Birthe C]

Jed,

I did it the dirty way directy in your tiddlers. Måns and I did that a lot while using TWclassic. Now as then an elaborate but also a learning experience. AND I must add only for our own wikies.

The best solution to make it possible to have translation in many languages is the solution by Thomas Elmiger. It is used in ToDoNow the languages is in the Listreveal plugin . Jan used the same way of doing it in Metatabs. I haven't seen anybody else yet. Not everything can be translated in this way but most of it. Rather easy the user have to clone and copy a tiddler and name it after the wanted language. The tiddler contains a list of wordpairs, translate them. A tiddler language exists, and a link to the translated tiddler is copied into it.

Thomas uses the macro $:/plugins/telmiger/lib/telang .I do not think I am able to explain it any further.

How difficult that method is for the plugin author, I really do not know.

I do think it is a great way a good plugin could end having translations to many languages. If an author want to, he could ask translators to send the translation tiddler. They could be listed on a plugin site. It would also be some measure of how popular and used a plugin were all over the world.

I do think though, you have more important things to do ;-)

Birthe

[ILYA]

Hello,

There is also a nice macro by @sycom for translation.

https://github.com/sycom/TiddlyWiki-Plugins/blob/master/ext/modules/macros/i18n/i18n.tid

I used it here https://github.com/iilyak/tiddlywiki-splitweb/blob/master/plugins/iilyak/splitweb/i18n/readme.tid#L7

I think you can also use multids to put multiple tiddlers into single file if you choose to.

The benefit of this approach is you can support multiple languages in a single wiki and toggle between. See demo of a language toggle https://iilyak.github.io/tiddlywiki-splitweb/

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[TiddlyTweeter]

Elegant!

Just suggestions: 

1 - Move STATUS to the left most column. 

2 - Make columns sortable.

Regards

Josiah

[Julio Peña]

Ciao Josiah,

I'm assuming you answered my original post.

Yes, I have changed the STATUS to the first columns starting from the left.

The sortable thing...ouch!

At least just to sort by clicking on headers only.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Update: I just found out an simple technique used by Jed Carty a while back that suits works just fine.

I think I have done it. Please check it out and let me know.

All the best,

Julio