[tw] Re: draw overlay on top of image?
What an interesting problem! As noted elsewhere, I have some ideas about a tool in TW intended for quick mockup creation to illustrate things in TW. The idea is to use embedded images depicting TW specific elements such as a blank button, a generic tiddler etc. It would be very valuable if it was possible to seemingly draw on these - but even better if it was possible to *write* on them. For example take a blank button and write New tiddler on it. Do you (I guess I'm talking to Tobias now, but anyone please do reply) think this would be possible in TW? I'm thinking, maybe it is possible to set the background of the text field to be transparent? So if, as you indicate, one could put a text field in front of another then... Maybe a special tiddler template containing two text fields, same size, and placed just next to eachothers... but instead one has another z-index and is offset with the length of it's width so it overlaps perfectly. I know it is possible with overlapping text like that because if you for instance open tiddler PageTemplate http://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2Fcore%2Fui%2FPageTemplate, you see this overlap effect in the sidebar head! What if we can *use* this to our advantage! A TW glass feature! I can imagine a lot of possibilities opening if we could do this. Imagine an iframe that you could add annotations to, *on* it. :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] [tw5] new plugin - media player
HI all, I am writing a media player plugin and put up a demo at http://mediaplayer.tiddlyspot.com/ cheers BJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: The Concept of Tags and Tagging
I must just say thank you for sharing your thought processes and reasoning on this most interesting, and important, topic. Just so there is no misunderstanding; As you point out, nobody is stopping me from using tags anyway I want but this is of course about making TW as useful as possible. Ok, it remains a fact that in the end we still have a few practical problems with the current design that isn't ideal for more careless tagging: - There will be tiddlers that are difficult to find, as exemplified by the tiddler Tagging http://tiddlywiki.com/#Tagging and someone curious about how to use tags and therefore searches tags. Note that this is an example of a carefully designed and tagged tiddler. - If we delegate ad hoc tags to be part of the text, we have a problem when the tiddler is not really common text. An image, a rendered list, a transcluded text where we might not ahead know if certain words appear, etc. A technical solution to insert tags in the content anyway compromises the resulting impression (this is not a small matter) and to demand attention to if tags really appear in the text, if there in deed is text, compromises the workflow for sure. - If we, hypothetically, limted tag to only be parent-child relationships then people who use tags as more arbitrary labels must learn that it is not OK to tag freely. Overall, I think TW currently is designed for an unnecessarily late stage in the brains tought process, not quite letting us take advante of the brains associative nature before we structure stuff mentally. If we really want TW to be *designed* to fit around your brain http://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlyWiki I say we should tap into this - because we can and it would make TW an even more creative work environment. I don't think I have much more to say on it right now so will put on, um, keep on, my thinking hat. BTW, this made me remeber an actual project I had to give up on because of *other* limitations in tagging (TWC at that time) and this time with very structured tagging! It's really a funny case so I will detail it soon. It would be fantastic if it turns out I was just approaching it the wrong way. @Astrid and particularly Mario and Tobias - great hearing your reasoning! :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] [TW5] Conditional table rows
Here is a table with an optional middle row. (Change *text=y* to *text=x* to reveal it.) table trtdJanuary/tdtd2015/td/tr *$reveal default=x type=match text=ytrtdFebruary/tdtd2016/td/tr/$reveal* trtdMarch/tdtd2017/td/tr /table But if you try this, you'll find that it generates *span class=tc-reveal* around the middle row, and this ruins the table's layout. The reveal widget will generate *div class=tc-reveal* instead if it believes it's being parsed in block mode. But if I add blank lines, a p element gets generated, and this ruins the layout in a different way. Is it possible to make a row of a table conditional, and if so, how? Incidentally, I think my use case for this would be satisfied by a new \ifdef pragma, as discussed here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/VX1qnNb48PI – æ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: The Concept of Tags and Tagging
Regarding the parent–child relationship, notice how the core table-of-contents macro assumes that tags are pointers to parent tiddlers. – æ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] [TW5] Tip: Fresh TW5 on TiddlySpot - how to set it up quickly
Just a cool tip if you want TW5 on tiddlyspot: Register a tiddlyspot account. Go to tiddlywiki.com/empty via chrome Enter controlpanel saving fill in your tiddlyspot account info + Save Done! (No downloading to your computer first) When we eventually get Drag'n Drop for links into TW, then you can follow up the above by setting a favicon (i.e the little icon showing at the tab) by: opening another tab in your browser and go to e.g images.google.com or similar to find an image click+hold the image, drag up to your TW tab so your browser switches tab, and drop onto TW import and rename it into * $:/favicon.ico* Done! :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: [TW5] xlist — rewritten (!) and plenty more powerful now!
Hi Tobias,
This is really great and I especially like the potential for easy
substitutions. One odd thing I noticed:
I followed your Installation instructions in an empty TW 5 file. Then I
dragged in all the tiddlers related to the tiddler called Topics.
However, in my file the first line on each of the tabs in Topics still
said
All Publications http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com/#Publications on Topics
http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com/#Topics...
In your file, it says
All Publications http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com/#Publications on Economics
http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com/#Economics... (or Business)
After some poking around, I realized that if I dragged in your version of
$:/core/macros/tabs
then Economics or Business replaced the word Topics.
But then I noticed that in the tiddler info dropdown, the fields
information was wrong. Instead of showing the current tiddler's fields
(created and modified dates, lists, etc), the field information was the
same for every tiddler:
caption {{$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Fields/Caption}} tags
$:/tags/TiddlerInfo title
$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Fields
Any idea what's going on?
cmari
On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 5:45:24 AM UTC-8, Tobias Beer wrote:
Ok, here's a (another) major update for *xlist*...
http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com
Now you can match and crosslist any combination of *fields* and *tags*,
see..
http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com/#Variants
Sorry for that, but to implement the above
I had to do some fundamental rewiring, again.
In other words, once again, the parameter order
as well as available parameters have changed,
so the new version is *incompatible* with the any one(s)!
After a long night with mountains of macro code
— only to be abandoned again —
I eventually realized that by introducing another filter parameter,
I could remove three other parameters no longer needed
and strip the macro code down to a neat minimum.
Now you can use the following two filter parameters...
- *filter* — to define a basic item filter
- *groups* — to define a filter for the category groups
Also there is now the *each* parameter
which allows you to group by and match against
categories derived form the discrete values of any field.
Before there were the following parameters...
- *filter* — to define a filter for the category groups — redefined to
*groups*
- *field* — to specify a text-reference for a list field — removed
- *match* — to specify a field to be matched — removed
- *value* — to specify the value for the *match* field — removed
So, for anyone who has already looked at it
or started implementing anything with *xlist*,
please take another close look at the documentation
http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com
and adapt your macro calls accordingly.
Any future parameters shall come after existing ones.
Promised!
Best wishes, Tobias.
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[tw] Re: TW5 Color of Field Values
Hi Rick, In the sense of GTD, I prefer using prefixes for any GTD related tags, e.g. *status* tags would be... - #reading - #next - #someday - #maybe ...all of which would tag themselves to *status*. See: http://tbgtd.tiddlyspot.com (TWc) Then you... - can more easily search for them simply by typing *#* - more easily spot them in the tag-bar - easily filter lists by iterating over all *status*-tags http://tiddlywiki.com/#FilterOperator%3A%20tag or those with prefix http://tiddlywiki.com/#FilterOperator%3A%20prefix # Personally, I'd also use *A*, *B*, *C* as tags tagging to *order*, rather than fields. That shows them at each book and you can click to get to the tiddler *order* , which could be an index of all books by order. With TW5, you can also assign tag icons. - using *$:/TagManager* which you find in the tags tab - you can assign something like that ✓ icon http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#Core%20Images%20And%20Inline%20Stylesheets to each status - that way, you quickly spot a status tag - personally, I would use author names as tags and have them tag to *author* - so, you could do the same thing with *author* - I wish there was a generic person icon though, even though not used by the core With the all new xlist http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com you can easily create indexes, e.g. - all *filter:[all[]] *by *each:order* - All By Groups @ xlist http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com/#All%20By%20Groups - all *filter:[genre[non-fiction]]* by *groups:[[status]tagging[]]* - (assuming you would start using tags for statuses) - Tagging Instead Of List Field @ xlist http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com/#Tagging%20Instead%20Of%20List%20Field - or using fields: *filter:[genre[non-fiction]]* by *each:read* - Match Field — Each Field Value @ xlist http://xlist.tiddlyspot.com/#Match%20Field%20%E2%80%94%20Each%20Field%20Value Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: Search
Hi Alan, Ah, now I see where the confusion is coming from. I've added an Installation section... Custom Search Tab Exact @ tb5 http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#Custom%20Search%20Tab%20Exact You were missing this tiddler... $:/.tb/ui/SearchResults/exact/regexp http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2F.tb%2Fui%2FSearchResults%2Fexact%2Fregexp Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: draw overlay on top of image?
Hi Dave, Currently that feature does not exist. In general it may be possible. There could either be a transparent gif, preferably a png as an overlay on which to draw. That would need some custom macro / widget, though... and some experimenting as to creating a blank transparent image of a given size. At image tiddlers, rather than directly drawing over them — which doesn't seem a very practical idea anyway — you would have a draw on me type of button creating another tiddler with the ability to draw on that overlay instead, showing the related image below in a see-through manner. I have created an issue here... https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1377 ...maybe someone skilled with image files takes a shot at it. Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: The Concept of Tags and Tagging
Very good advice on how to tag. Lately I find that I am not systematic enough, planning too little before starting a new TW. One of the charms for TW for me has always been, I find myself with a mixture of data I need to collect somewhere and in a hurry. Only later on with a TW growing in size and when I have better time, I usually will get the data sorted and better tagged in several wiki's. Thinking back in time I realise that it is also very much a question of habit, how do we think and work spontaneously. When I first started using TWc for sure I was not using tags to my advantage. For me the eyeopening moment came with using MPTW and wonderful tagglytagging. Not at the very first sight, but soon after. Two days later I had my very own cookbook with all my grandmothers and mothers old recipes in it. It is still working well today. I have added very little, tiddlers and tagglytagging makes all the work. We often discuss how to make things easier for newbies, how to tag would benefit enormously with tagglytagging as in MPTW, your choices are visualised right before your eyes..and then more ;-) I do not want to hide my tags. Birthe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: The Concept of Tags and Tagging
Thank you guys!, you give some ideas that I will implement for my own TWs, thank you! But I do think it is unfortunate to intentionally limit the system in this regard for at least three reasons: 1) Conceptual confusion: TW does not, as far as I can tell, fulfill the general perception of what tags are: Wikipedia article Tag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29, and Wordpress on Categories vs Tags http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/. 2) Compromises: There are several aspects of tags that a user might miss out on if he cannot use his words as tags. Differences in search behaviour from if they were tags. And, again, compromising the text is not necessarily OK; what should you do for a tddler intended to depict Mona Lisa? 3) Obstructed use case : Both the process Mario kindly details and Tobias' parent=child restrictions force a lot of analysis. I love thinking and I love logic structures, but there is simply a place for ad hoc too, *particulary* in note taking tools and creative work. If nothing else, it can work as a transitory phase *before* structuring. (Compare to e.g formal braintstorming: analysis/evaluation/judgement is directly detrimental in the initial stages and will simply *not* produce good results.) A tool designed for very structured tagging is probably more about documentation than note taking. I just don't see why TW should be limited in this respect. Apropo this last point, TW perhaps being a tool more for documentation more than note taking, I've touched on this from some other angles, particulary the somewhat slow workflow for documenting things in TW (e.g tiddler creation). Just maybe there should, after all, be a theme specializing on a more impromptu and careless workflow (TW jazz!) rather than the conscientious current workflow. Or maybe theme is the wrong word... because ideally the input should be easy to refine (organize and structure) if the preference for this arises. ...Considering the dynamic nature of TW, we could have different page templates, showing tools etc for the application at hand. Maybe called different *modes*? Swithin' over to note-taking mode. Is there a mechanism for switching page templates? :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: Search
Hi Tobias, Thanks for the quick response. I did have the regex tiddler installed (guess I forgot to mention). I just tried your installation and am still seeing the same problem. Is there some way I can send you my test wiki? Alan On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 4:08:35 AM UTC-5, Tobias Beer wrote: Hi Alan, Ah, now I see where the confusion is coming from. I've added an Installation section... Custom Search Tab Exact @ tb5 http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#Custom%20Search%20Tab%20Exact You were missing this tiddler... $:/.tb/ui/SearchResults/exact/regexp http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2F.tb%2Fui%2FSearchResults%2Fexact%2Fregexp Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: draw overlay on top of image?
Just a thought: perhaps I'm wrong about the file size thing. If I have a starting image (making sure it's as small as reasonably possible) and I draw on it and save it maybe using the new tiddler's name, does anyone know if that would actually use more file space than what I'm talking about? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: draw overlay on top of image?
Just a thought: perhaps I'm wrong about the file size thing. If I have a starting image (making sure it's as small as reasonably possible) and I draw on it and save it maybe using the new tiddler's name, does anyone know if that would actually use more file space than what I'm talking about? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: draw overlay on top of image?
Just a thought: perhaps I'm wrong about the file size thing. If I have a starting image (making sure it's as small as reasonably possible) and I draw on it and save it maybe using the new tiddler's name, does anyone know if that would actually use more file space than what I'm talking about? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [tw] [TW5] Idea for a Hangouts TiddlyWiki
On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 10:32:49 PM UTC+1, RichShumaker wrote: I still have to get your first 20 done and that may take a bit. :) As an FYI, I have your Hang_Out versions unedited in Tiddlers, then I have to strip and make them ' to work with the Macros I am using. So there is duplication of data in my system. I'm creating the annotations with the editor of my pmario space. ... There is one simple reason, why I create them the way they are. ... So Jeremy has an easy copy paste the content to the youtube videos. I like your effort to expand the annotations and give them more content. So the information / ideas in the discussions are exposed to more people, that prefer reading over viewing! I may turn your Tiddlers into Shadow Tiddlers(?) so they are removed from the search cue to avoid doubling up. Oh and that would be after I finish them all. IMO when we have better possibilities for multi user TWs, I think Tobias and I will merge our hangout space with your extended content TW. ... But at the moment I need something that I can use without any thinking. And a plain text editor is exactly that. ... Using the tab key to switch between input fields, using the mouse to open drop down menues, adding tags by clicking buttons, ... slows me down to much. As I said I try to watch the videos at 2x speed so I need to be fast :) have fun! keep on the nice work :) -m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] How can the public add data to my tw?
What ways would there be to enable the general public to add data to my public tw over the web? If I want others to be able to create and add tags, how could this be achived? Or, more limited, to add predefined tags? I'm using the specific example of tagging but I'm assuming it's the same answer if it were how to enable, say, strarring sometthing, participating in polls and other stuff. :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: The Concept of Tags and Tagging
Hi Birthe, I have put a summary of the above up here... Tags-101 @ tb5 http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#Tags-101 Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: The Concept of Tags and Tagging
Hi Mat,
1) Conceptual confusion: TW does not, as far as I can tell, fulfill the
general perception of what tags are: Wikipedia article Tag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29, and Wordpress on
Categories
vs Tags http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/.
Interesting stuff, for sure. Please note, that there is no 1:1 relation to
what wikipedia or wordpress subsume under the notion *tags*, i,e, things
like meta-tags, and what a *tag* is and how it works in TiddlyWiki. Tags in
TiddlyWiki are of a rather well defined nature and so I find them not at
all to be congruent with the former ...and they don't have to be.
Considering static tiddlers, the question of How do I model html
meta-tags? is indeed an important one and there could be an established
consensus that anything defined with the prefix *meta--* will yield a meta
tag in the static representation, e.g.
meta--keywords: foo bar baz {{!!tags}}
2) Compromises: There are several aspects of tags that a user might miss
out on if he cannot use words as tags. Differences in search behaviour from
if they were tags. And, again, compromising the text is not necessarily OK;
what should you do for a tiddler intended to depict Mona Lisa?
Feel free to use tags any way you want, and also fields, but be aware the
implications.
If you don't like those implications, your head might just meet a
brick-wall...
and it's really nobody's fault or task to watch out for how you decide to
move in TiddlyWiki.
3) Obstructed use case : Both the process Mario kindly details and Tobias'
parent=child restrictions force a lot of analysis.
There is no need at all to premeditate on structure, it comes about...
au-naturel.
I love thinking and I love logic structures, but there is simply a place
for ad hoc too, *particulary* in note taking tools and creative work.
Again, using tags as parents to a tiddler is not impinging on creativity.
In fact, the opposite is true. The more well defined a basic toolset is,
the easier it is to be truly creative. If anything is possible,
creativity is meaningless... because everything is arbitrary. Cretivity
comes about, imho, by making astounding use of the — sometimes incredibly
scarce and limited — resources at hand.
If nothing else, it can work as a transitory phase *before* structuring.
Like everything in a wiki — or in real-life — tags are fluid, dynamic and
emergent. Things are not set in stone just because one decides at some
point to assign to that poor tiddler some heavyweight category called a
tag.
(Compare to e.g formal braintstorming: analysis/evaluation/judgement is
directly detrimental in the initial stages and will simply *not* produce
good results.)
Brainstorming, too, has rules to it. You are playing freely, but without
the boundaries set forth in the method. The idea of brainstorming is not
do whatever you want.
A tool designed for very structured tagging is probably more about
documentation than note taking. I just don't see why TW should be limited
in this respect.
I'd like to understand better why you keep on expressing that as a
limitation. How exactly is it a limitation that is restricting you?
You are free to use tags in any way that make sense to *you*. If it works
for you, great! However, the way you use tags has consequences. When that
yields inconsistencies which wouldn't exist if you used a thing for what
it's designed for, then it's not for tags to change their behavior. You
wouldn't use a calculator as a scoop either, unless you wanted to make a
one-time joke of it.
TW perhaps being a tool more for documentation more than note taking,
I do not see how and why you distinguish the two. To me, it's literally the the
same process: dump stuff from my brain so as to not juggle it around in my
head alone.
Just maybe there should, after all, be a theme specializing on a more
impromptu and careless workflow (TW jazz!) rather than the conscientious
current workflow.
It would surely be quite interesting to see what you'd invent there. I'm
far from suggesting that experiments like that would be pointless. To the
contrary. Structures and patterns emerge out of what first appeared as
chaos. Sometimes, though, chaos is just that... a lot of noise, so always
have some ear-plugs at hand. :D
ideally the input should be easy to refine (organize and structure) if the
preference for this arises
I can see how you can turn Mozart into Jazz, the other way around, not
quite so much. Perhaps we've forgotten the art of that. To me, it's pretty
clear that those masters and geniuses and their symphonies were reflecting
more on patterns than chaos, patterns of scales, of rhythm, of harmony, of
balance... patterns ...and creatively interpreting those.
Considering the dynamic nature of TW, we could have different page
templates, showing tools etc for the application at hand.
While TW5 already provides a big heap
[tw] Re: draw overlay on top of image?
Hi Dave, If I have a starting image (making sure it's as small as reasonably possible) and I draw on it and save it maybe using the new tiddler's name, does anyone know if that would actually use more file space than what I'm talking about? You'd go about it differently. Rather than renaming, use cloning. And yes, you'd duplicate that image, which is what you want anyway. What would be really cool is if there was a way to overlay an exertnal image and the resulting semi-transparent overlay being smaller in its footprint ...as it should contain less information. Perhaps there could be an almost pain-free workflow involving svg-editor http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/stable/editor/svg-editor.html ... 1. open svg-editor 2. place your image in the background 3. draw svg elements on top 4. remove background 5. save svg 6. create image tiddler with (perhaps referring to an external image) 7. use a to-be-created macro in another tiddler which overlays the svg on top of the image with proper scaling All this is a lot better than pixel-based editing, imho... not just for annotations. Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: How can the public add data to my tw?
Hi Mat, As for polls you could use one of the abundant services that provide polls for embedding. However, the actual poll data would surely not reside in your TiddlyWiki. It would only show the results. This approach is pretty the same for all other content that you wish your visitors to contribute. You need some external service / server both storing and delivering that information on-demand. Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: draw overlay on top of image?
thanks for the thoughtful reply. As usual, I'm always coming up with things that have yet to be invented, ha ha. I'll play around with just editing a template image and saving directly for now, because in the workflow I'm imagining, it would have to pretty much be instantaneous as marking the sites treated would be real time while the patient was in the room and I wouldn't want to be fiddling around with extra files and applications. I'm so slow at development, by the time I'm ready to use it, maybe someone will have made that already ;) (p.s. sorry about the reposts, I thought my phone was just lagging in posting so I reposted a couple times) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: TW5 Color of Field Values
The new book button simply brings up a tiddler template with predefined tags and fields to allow easy entry of a new book to add to my reading list. The widget you mention is one I have not explored. There is lots to learn here...next I need to review TB's last response below sounds like a better way to do things but I have to understand first! :) On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 9:01:53 PM UTC-5, Birthe C wrote: Hi RickL, It looks great. I wonder how you use your New Book button? If you use ActionSendMessageWidget, you can set the tags and fields you would use for all your books. Birthe On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 2:30:47 AM UTC+1, RickL wrote: check thatI have it working now.Thanks! On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 8:30:05 PM UTC-5, RickL wrote: If you say so...but I don't seed how On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 8:20:11 PM UTC-5, Tobias Beer wrote: Seems to work fine... with the above example. Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[tw] Re: TW5 Color of Field Values
Great suggestions! Some I almost understand, others are like a foreign language. The more I learn here,the more there is to learn. I will study then will have questions, so I hope you are up for it! ;) On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 3:56:17 PM UTC-5, RickL wrote: I have a list of books to read. I order the books by: A - read now; B - read next; C - read some day Each book is a tiddler, and each tiddler contains a field labeled order with the value A, B, or C. I created a list of books in a new tiddler with the $view field=order/ command to get a comprehensive reading list. This works well. I can color the order with the @@color:red; @@ command so the order stands out. My question: How can I get the order of the books to be even more evident by coloring the A, B, or C differently. Red for A, Green for B, and Blue for C for example. I think this would also be helpful in using TW as a task list. Hope this makes sense. Thanks Rick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
