A TiddlyWiki "TODO organization/reminder" approach

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Charlie Veniot

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Sep 13, 2020, 7:13:45 PM9/13/20
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G’day,


I needed a way to remind myself of “TODO” tasks in regards to my dual-purpose “Product Reviews” and “Urban Off Gridding for Laypersons” TiddlyWiki.


My approach:

  • In whatever tiddler requiring something I need to do, I add (in the text of the tiddler) a [[TODO]] link along with notes related to the thing I need to do

  • When I’ve completed the thing I needed to do, I just edit the tiddler and get rid of the [[TODO]] link and the related notes.

    • I don’t need a “record” of the thing being done

  • To remind me of what I need to do …

    • The sidebar displays a fairly noticeable TODO section (a “TODO” DetailsWidget containing the list of tiddlers that have [[TODO]] links)

    • When there are no tiddlers referencing [[TODO]], then the sidebar's TODO section "disappears" (reappearing next time a [[TODO]] link gets created in some tiddler)


Please find below 5 screenshots of related things to look for in my TiddlyWiki.


Cheers !


TODO section in the sidebar (collapsed)

TheTodoInTheSidebarCollapsed.png



TODO section in the sidebar (expanded)

TheTodoInTheSidebarExpanded.png



The filter that creates the TODO section if there are any TODO’s

CustomTiddlywikiTitleTop.png



The TODO tiddler

TheTodoTiddler.png



A sample TODO (TODO reference and related notes)

TodoReference.png




Felicia Crow

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Sep 13, 2020, 8:40:32 PM9/13/20
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Hi,

since you linked so nicely from our other discussion to here I decided to leave my thoughts on this project where it is relevant.

I have to say I find the whole system very interesting, especially using hard links to one tiddler to pull everything together.

May have to borrow the idea and see if I can incorporate it in my edit-text widget todo list for when the todos are specific to certain tiddlers instead of more general things.

Cheers,
Felicia

TW Tones

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Sep 13, 2020, 10:38:33 PM9/13/20
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Charlie,

Thanks for sharing. It is a somewhat novel approach. 

With a lot of focus recently on references and back-links we are seeing people make use of these a lot.

Sharing such code patterns are really good for the community, thanks.

Tones

林东吴

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Sep 15, 2020, 2:09:48 AM9/15/20
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Hi Veniot,

I know one of my friend even use [[2020-xx-xx]] to create a reminder, then when 2020-xx-xx comes, he get this backlink in his daily-note in roam research.

My TODO is just using https://github.com/kookma/TW-Shiraz 's Dynamic Table, it really worth a trying in his website.

I use kin-filter to get all tiddler with Task tag and "related to xxx topic", and create several different topic related todo list. You can find an example in https://onetwo.ren/wiki/#自改TW

LinOnetwo

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Charlie Veniot

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Sep 15, 2020, 10:19:50 AM9/15/20
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G'day LinOnetwo,

I should have mentioned:  my todos aren't time-sensitive (i.e. they don't have "due dates") and don't have priorities, so that makes my TODO needs pretty basic.

Regardless, thanks for the links and info !  There is some really very good stuff in there.

Cheers !


On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 3:09:48 AM UTC-3, Lin Onetwo wrote:
Hi Veniot,

I know one of my friend even use [[2020-xx-xx]] to create a reminder, then when 2020-xx-xx comes, he get this backlink in his daily-note in roam research.

My TODO is just using https://github.com/kookma/TW-Shiraz 's Dynamic Table, it really worth a trying in his website.

I use kin-filter to get all tiddler with Task tag and "related to xxx topic", and create several different topic related todo list. You can find an example in https://onetwo.ren/wiki/#自改TW

LinOnetwo

TW Tones <anthon...@gmail.com> 于2020年9月14日周一 上午10:38写道:
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