Yeah, it is potentially a big issue, and I'm successfully avoiding it now by just attaching events to a year tag. :)
I suppose you could make fuzzy dates tiddlers of their own, and give them fields which describe. the space they cover. How? A central point and a halo of fuzziness? A start and end date which implies "the actual is sometime in here"? Sometimes you'd want to know about the date as if it were a point (perhaps at the center of the range), but sometimes you'd want to know about the date as if it were a span, maybe depending on how you wanted to visualize it? On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 10:03:49 PM UTC-4 TW Tones wrote: > Ed, > > I have a long term goal to do this, and building that reference needs > "Fuzzy dates" and yes making a timeline important. > > In someways its too large a subject, but I will be happy to contribute to > focused aspects to do this. > > It would also help researchers, historians and biographers. > > Regards > Tony > > > On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 02:32:34 UTC+10, Ed Heil wrote: >> >> Looking for advice on how to raise my game on one of my first tiddlywikis >> ever. >> >> It's a timeline of life events, so I can go back and answer my questions >> like "what grade was I in when that happened? When did I move there? When >> did I meet them?". >> >> It started out as just a textual list, with some links. Then I learned >> about tagging and stuff, and I ended up making a tiddler for each year and >> tagging the events to that tiddler (so I can rearrange them in the correct >> order thanks to the magic of list fields). >> >> I have not done anything more than "attaching events to a given year >> tiddler" as far as assigning dates. I'd like to actually put dates in a >> field, but I often don't have real date data, like I know something >> happened in "1980" or "late 1980" or "fall 1980" or "september 1980" or >> something like that. >> >> Any suggestions on handling that sort of thing? >> >> The technique I have, of just assigning things to years and arranging >> them manually in order, actually works fine. It doesn't allow me to do >> things like use the timeline visualization plugin, which would be pretty >> neat, but that's not the most important thing. >> >> I guess I'm just wondering whether anybody has best practices or hints on >> handling dates of widely varying precision. >> >> I haven't touched this TW in a while so it's kind of fun looking at how I >> used to do things just a few months ago, and what I've learned since then! >> (E.g. i used to make heavy use of WikiWords but that passed by the >> wayside....) >> >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a3d65e5d-a0c5-4fd1-8a5e-e7ead2175484n%40googlegroups.com.
