Re: [tw] Re: Why is there no actual "TiddlyWiki For Dummies" book? Someone please write one!

There is also a need be a simple glossary. TW seems to have lots of specialized vocabulary. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2016, at 3:40 PM, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki > wrote: > > That's a nice outline. Makes me wonder if what's really wanted is a TW >

Re: [tw] Re: Scripture tiddly wiki 5 examples

A bunch of what you said was beyond my skill level. But I am excited to see what is possible. I am willing to do the boring work if someone can walk me through it. Thanks for you efforts. Marc Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2016, at 10:57 AM, Josiah wrote: > >

[tw] Re: [TW5] Open all the tiddlers with a particular tag

I wanted the possibility to "open all" [tagged tiddlers] when I click on a tagpill, so I did the following: In the shadow tiddler $:/core/ui/TagTemplate after the line that consists only of insert: <$button class="tc-btn-invisible"><$list filter="[all[current]tagging[]]"><$action-navigate

[tw] Re: More questions about TITLE

Hi Josiah, Further to what Richard has said, The best/simplest way to do this, in my experience, is to give them all > names that start the same "KUNDUN (1997) Cast", "KUNDUN (1997) Clip" etc. > and then have a 'master' tiddler called "KUNDUN (1997)" which gathers all > the pieces (by

Re: [tw] Re: Rearranger-Tool to reorder the story. Comments and Collaboration appreciated...

Hi Jan, I am so glad you got this working very useful. I got a little confused reading your Issues/ToDoIt would be useful to clear the listfield in the ReArranger, together with the other actions when pressing "apply new order". Somehow all my attempts killed the whole button... I did not se

[tw] Re: More questions about TITLE

Hi, As Hegart points out, the tension derives from the fact that the title is the primary key in the data-store. How would you differentiate between your three tweets if they have the same title and tags? The best/simplest way to do this, in my experience, is to give them all names that

[tw] Re: Why is there no actual "TiddlyWiki For Dummies" book? Someone please write one!

For Dummies, eh? Therefore some dumm questions What is a data dictionary? What is json? What is a macro? What is a widget? What's this "$"sign for Pete's sake? What is a state tiddler? What is a temp tiddler? There should be a part of the book that explains things like that before people must

[tw] Re: Scripture tiddly wiki 5 examples

I agree it's interesting to consider mass conversion of texts from Gutenberg - at least, it would be good to imagine a tool that lets someone easily choose a standard e-text, import it and then clean it up. If you are just looking for clean versions of the texts, you can search for, eg;

Re: [tw] Re: Rearranger-Tool to reorder the story. Comments and Collaboration appreciated...

Hi Mat, Thanks so much. I desired this since I switched to TW5 and I was very happy when I found BJ's Code that is doing the trick...I think it now could need a Design that tells about the possibility, like tagpills or so. BTW my next project is inspired by your sideEditor which allso has a

[tw] Re: Rearranger-Tool to reorder the story. Comments and Collaboration appreciated...

Jan - assuming I understand your intentions right; Rearranging the display order of the river tiddlers by reordering their titles in the sidebar instead of in the actual river is a *brilliant *idea that I've just never considered! I always imagined dragn'dropping actual open tiddlers... which

[tw] Re: More questions about TITLE

Hegart is right. In addition, I believe Felix's TiddlyMap uses other unique identifiers than the titles. Also I believe Tobias has done work with UUID's or similar, for tiddlers. Maybe findable via tb5.tiddlyspot.com <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[tw] Re: Why is there no actual "TiddlyWiki For Dummies" book? Someone please write one!

c pa, I agree with Mark S - nice outline! (surely too well formulated to have been improvised just now, right!?) A topic missing is IMO how to modify layout and appearance, i.e beyond Controlpanel stuff, like changing the page layout or adding page elements. Maybe it belongs under "Things

[tw] Re: Why is there no actual "TiddlyWiki For Dummies" book? Someone please write one!

That's a nice outline. Makes me wonder if what's really wanted is a TW cookbook. Mark. On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 11:22:52 AM UTC-7, c pa wrote: > > So to be clear you want a book, or a wiki on tiddlyspot that gives step by > step instructions on how to "use" TiddlyWiki. One of the

[tw] Re: Why is there no actual "TiddlyWiki For Dummies" book? Someone please write one!

I suppose Eric might have something to say on this topic!! On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 00:39:12 UTC+10, madscijr wrote: > > Just sayin'. I would find it useful, if only the way the Dummies books > are structured. > Maybe dedicate half the book to TW Classic and half to TW 5? > > -- You received

Re: [tw] Re: Rearranger-Tool to reorder the story. Comments and Collaboration appreciated...

Dear Cz the double Transclusion is a cool trick. I do not know why this works but it works. I'll add this to the description. Thanks a lot. Jan Am 06.06.2016 um 20:25 schrieb cZ: Hi Jan, I put {{Rearranger}} at the end of the tiddler Stories in storysaver.json and they can work together

[tw] Re: More questions about TITLE

Thanks. The workarounds may work. I will look. I'm just surprised that tiddler creation is not behind-the-scenes auto-serialized so that everything else showable is repeatable. Perhaps it is? Josiah On Monday, 6 June 2016 20:48:17 UTC+2, Hegart Dmishiv wrote: > > As far as I understand it,

[tw] Re: [Thoughts] Using TW5 as Browser-Based Presentation-Tool

Here's a recent thread on TW5 as a presentation tool https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/TiddlyWiki/presentation/tiddlywiki/9FsMLX3ZQsE/y7dtSSW7AQAJ I use a modified version for patient education in my clinic. I haven't read this current thread all the way through but I'd love to be

[tw] Re: Why is there no actual "TiddlyWiki For Dummies" book? Someone please write one!

c pa There are at least two answers to you question. I think you are RIGHT in highlighting that many, many people ARE using TW out-of-the-box very happily. The trouble seems to come when folks see the endless possibilities of the product... I am not sure its a problem. But its not well

[tw] Re: More questions about TITLE

As far as I understand it, that cannot be done with the title field. That's not to say it cannot be done at all though. Just use a different field. Think of the title field as being like the primary key of a database. It is the only field in TiddlyWiki (that I know of) which has to be unique.

[tw] [TW5] How to detect not imported Tiddlers

Hey guys, I am migrating from my ebook management software that I used for years to a TW what I hope makes my workflow easier. The problem I have is that I need to import around 1000 Tiddlers and while LibreOffice Calc tells me, there are 924 Tiddlers for the books (I already checked for

[tw] More questions about TITLE

Let me present a use case: A TiddlyWiki which discusses film. Take the case of the film KUNDUN (1997). That ... 1. I create a data record for listing actors, director etc ... 2. I create a video Tiddler for that film ... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWjYtYWVDE) 3. I create 3

[tw] Re: Rearranger-Tool to reorder the story. Comments and Collaboration appreciated...

Hi Jan, I put {{Rearranger}} at the end of the tiddler Stories in storysaver.json and they can work together under one tab on the sidebar. Regards, cz On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 6:03:32 PM UTC+8, Jan wrote: > > Hello > I made a Tool called rearranger to reorder the story...it can be found >

[tw] Re: Why is there no actual "TiddlyWiki For Dummies" book? Someone please write one!

So to be clear you want a book, or a wiki on tiddlyspot that gives step by step instructions on how to "use" TiddlyWiki. One of the difficulties in this is the term "use" which implies use-cases for the product. I've had conversations with a number of people who use TiddlyWiki, folks seem to

[tw] Re: Scripture tiddly wiki 5 examples

Ciao Mark S. I just looked at the Gutenberg Complete Shakespeare http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/100/pg100.txt I see your point. It has bizarre stuff in it. Its a mess. It is not well laid out either. I think what is needed is a regex PRE-process that samples texts to see if they follow

[tw] Re: Scripture tiddly wiki 5 examples

The Gutenberg KJV text is almost ideally suited for conversion with regex of some type -- every verse has it's own id in exactly the same format. Looking at Shakespeare texts , on the other hand, at least in my quick sampling, the formatting is very scatter-shot. It appears that the original

[tw] Re: [Thoughts] Using TW5 as Browser-Based Presentation-Tool

I will try to track down my french flashcards I made and post it tomorrow. It was what I made the updated keyboard widget for so it should have a reasonable example. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group

[tw] Re: Scripture tiddly wiki 5 examples

Marc & all I really like this thread. Its dealing with CONTENT. It seems to me that MASS conversion of Gutenberg texts into a reliable TiddlyWiki JSON importable format file (using regex, or better a full featured Grep engine) is not beyond reach. In fact, very close. Its interesting to

Re: [tw] Re: Scripture tiddly wiki 5 examples

Richard Smith As far as i can see the way you built your version makes optimal use to TW5's love of fragments for purpose (i.e. the fundamental verse units). That is reflected in the performance. Josiah On Sunday, 5 June 2016 13:10:15 UTC+2, Richard Smith wrote: > > It's true that the file

[tw] Re: Rearranger-Tool to reorder the story. Comments and Collaboration appreciated...

Hello Jan, I tested the rearranger, and found out that using {{Rearranger}} in a tiddler named Order tagged with " $:/tags/SideBar " can show all the contents of Rearranger on the sidebar, instead of putting Rearranger directly onto the sidebar. Since I am not a programmer and have little

[tw] Re: Why is there no actual "TiddlyWiki For Dummies" book? Someone please write one!

I totally agree. Deeper functioning of TW is quite hard to grasp. The Dummies books understand that detailed, concrete, examples are essential for non-programmers to be able to grasp what the hell is going on. Eric Shulman tried to raise money to be freed to do something like that. I don't

[tw] Re: db driver to query TiddlyWikis from Excel, Access, node.js, external client-side JS, etc.? Querying SQL/MongoDB from a TW?

TiddlyWiki isn't an interface on top of some database -- it's the database and interface all mixed together. So it doesn't really have a "back-end" that can be swapped out for some external source. Since it can also run on node.js, I imagine there might be some klugey way to make it exchange

[tw] Re: db driver to query TiddlyWikis from Excel, Access, node.js, external client-side JS, etc.? Querying SQL/MongoDB from a TW?

I hear you on finding free time / priority for this stuff. And you bring up a good point, about TiddlyWiki projects paying the bills. If TiddlyWiki had that kind of interoperability with SQL & NoSQL databases, or could be used as a type of document-oriented database, or as a front end / tool

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki Usage Statistics

Ciao Jeremy & all Indeed the Mozilla TiddlyFox download stats are interesting. No least because they indicate SERIOUS INTENT on using TW. Nobody would download the special add-on unless they are serious about at least trying TW out. Interesting too is the consistency of interest over time:

[tw] Re: db driver to query TiddlyWikis from Excel, Access, node.js, external client-side JS, etc.? Querying SQL/MongoDB from a TW?

I have been looking into some things like this but it is one of many projects I am working on. I believe that some other people have expressed interest in creating plugins for it but I haven't seen any results yet. One thing I have been looking at is using a mysql database as a personal email

[tw] db driver to query TiddlyWikis from Excel, Access, node.js, external client-side JS, etc.? Querying SQL/MongoDB from a TW?

Has anyone done any work on making TiddlyWiki available as a data source (like ODBC or otherwise) to say, Excel/Access, or server/client-side JavaScript? Going the other way, are there any plugins for or work being done on using TiddlyWiki as a database client for RDBMSs (SQL Server, Oracle,

[tw] Why is there no actual "TiddlyWiki For Dummies" book? Someone please write one!

Just sayin'. I would find it useful, if only the way the Dummies books are structured. Maybe dedicate half the book to TW Classic and half to TW 5? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

[tw] Re: [Thoughts] Using TW5 as Browser-Based Presentation-Tool

It would be awesome if someone got a working KeyboardWidget-example with focus-settings and can post this. I need to see some syntax to understand this mechanism. Best regards, Alex Am Montag, 6. Juni 2016 14:53:15 UTC+2 schrieb Alexander Eckert: > > Hi Jeremy, > Hi Jed, > Hi Thomas, > >

[tw] Re: [Thoughts] Using TW5 as Browser-Based Presentation-Tool

Hi Jeremy, Hi Jed, Hi Thomas, @Jeremy: Thanks for your answer. After testing the zoomin storyview this seems to be my workaround. Now I'm trying to set focus und for that I have to dig deeper in the manual. @Jed: My first thought was a lil widget at the Sidebar, but I want to hide the

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki Usage Statistics

If you're trying to get some sense of diversity of editorial engagement off the tiddlyspace stats, the value that is perhaps most useful is the trend of the BagsChanged column. BagsChanged is "Count of bags in which at least one tiddler was changed today." FatBags tells you how many, at some

[tw] Re: Scripture tiddly wiki 5 examples

Ciao Mark S. Genesis Bugs? lol. Yep. That's where all the trouble started! :-) Josiah On Sunday, 5 June 2016 21:29:32 UTC+2, Mark S. wrote: > > I found my dropbox account. Here's Greg's KJV bible plus 3 books of the > OT (Genesis, Job, Esther) and some tools (which you can find by looking

[tw] Rearranger-Tool to reorder the story. Comments and Collaboration appreciated...

Hello I made a Tool called rearranger to reorder the story...it can be found here http://rearranger.tiddlyspot.com/ After pressing the "rearrange Order" Button in theRearranger you will get a list which you can reorder by drag-and-drop and then

[tw] Re: [TW5] Open all the tiddlers with a particular tag

On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 9:48:07 AM UTC+2, rauh...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello together, > > I wanted to ask if there has been progress on the 'clickable tags' request > here. I am rather new in using TiddlyWiki, but I miss this particular tool > really much, as I don't want to open all tagged

[tw] Re: [TW5] TiddlyWiki code structure and documentation, try 2. Any volunteers?

Only functions in wiki.js are in it so far. That is why I am asking for help. -- 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

[tw] Re: [TW5] TiddlyWiki code structure and documentation, try 2. Any volunteers?

Hi Mark, getVariable is defined in widget.js If you search the whole project using an editor such as Atom or Brackets, you get a list of all the lines containing the string and you can look through to find the definition or you can try searching for "getVariable =" and it should find the

[tw] Re: [TW5] Open all the tiddlers with a particular tag

Hello together, I wanted to ask if there has been progress on the 'clickable tags' request here. I am rather new in using TiddlyWiki, but I miss this particular tool really much, as I don't want to open all tagged Tiddlers one by one. I am searching for an option to open all tagged Tiddlers at