[TW5] The tyranny of TITLE. Tittles don't matter :-)

[Josiah]

Gals & Guys

I want to create a TW5 where meaningful titles are largely irrelevant. Where the ONLY meaningful content is fragments of arbitrary TEXT content.

Is it possible to simply increment a title number for a template initiated editor instance? For instance, a template that was tagged "fragment" would, in editor, auto-title it "Fragment #00007" after it checked that "Fragment #00006" was the last filled entry in the series?

Dealing with fragments of TEXT that do NOT yet have a place in any hierarchy, that are themselves the real instance of themselves, is a key way to deal with emergent knowing IMO. The less attention I have to pay to titles at that stage the better.

Josiah

[Mark S.]

Tobias Beer has a script at his site for creating new tiddlers that includes a counter:

http://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#One%20Button%20Multiple%20Actions

Although he doesn't use it to set text in the title, perhaps with a little tweaking it could do that.

But another thought is that if you just add a timestamp to the Journal format, then you will automatically have a tiddler with a unique title (assuming that you're not making them faster than one a second).

Mark

[Josiah]

LOL. that looks a workable solution. No, I'm not doing one a minute :-)

I will see if I can adapt it.

Thankyou
Josiah

[Hegart Dmishiv]

Hi Josiah,

Hey, if the title field is so irrelevant to you, why bother showing it at all? A couple of us students from the previous intake of {{DesignWrite}} did just that for our semester project, removing the default title headings and other displayed content from our wikis. Have a look at my example, which provides an interface for hiding / showing certain elements.

Hope this helps,

Hegart.

[Josiah]

Hegart

Thanks for the example. Very helpful.

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi Josiah,

If your snippets are so small …

Maybe you could do it the other way round and use only the title instead of the text field. Technically they are both text fields anyway.

Cheers, Thomas

[Josiah]

Ciao Thomas

That's a good suggestion that never occurred to me. Actually it might solve a lot of issues since default search and so on displays Titles so i would not need to re-configure that. I will try it out. I would never have anything longer than 140 characters.