Hi Jon! Thanks to your idea of have a list of random tiddlers, I have implemented something similar. If you put something inside $:/config/EmptyStoryMessage <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/4q7unKvZ9uE/m/vAIAxnheEgAJ>, it will show up in the story river when there are no tiddlers. So I entered the following to have it show me a random Zettel from my zettelkasten:
<div style="margin:2em"> <h1>Here is a random Zettel: </h1> <$list filter="[all[tiddlers]tag[Zettel]]+[shuffle[]first[1]]"> <h2 class="tc-title"> <$link/> </h2> <$transclude tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> field="text" mode="block"/> </$list> </div> I used the shuffle operator plugin <https://mklauber.github.io/tw5-plugins/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fmklauber%2Fshuffle> for the randomness. I helped me touch up some older notes. Because it now shows up, it is easy to just take a minute to do one note. To me it is very interesting how you are describing how your TiddlyWiki went from a knowlegde base to a learning tool, finding new connections you hadn't thought of. It reminds of how Luhman described his zettelkasten as a conversation partner <https://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes>. He writes: "As a result of extensive work with this technique a kind of secondary memory will arise, an alter ego with who we can constantly communicate. It proves to be similar to our own memory in that it does not have a thoroughly constructed order of its entirety, not hierarchy, and most certainly no linear structure like a book. Just because of this, it gets its own life, independent of its author." He also notes that at first, the zettelkasten will just serve as a container to store things, and that it will take a while before new insights and links will arise. I am still mostly at the stage of just storing. I think this is in part because a broad range of interests of mine, I need more notes before different topics start to 'touch' each other. Although I've had some cases of 'ahah! This can be linked to this note!'. You wrote that your TiddlyWiki is nearing 20mb. I am wondering, is this only text, or are you also embedding images and the like? Kind regards, Odin Op dinsdag 18 mei 2021 om 03:13:01 UTC+2 schreef TW Tones: > Thanks for Sharing. > > There is a change count maintained for each session of tiddlywiki, which > is lost after save and reload. I have often felt we should also have a > visit count (each time a tiddler is opened) And that both can be summed > with previous values retained in the wiki. This would allow us to identify > busy and neglected tiddlers, combined with a last view (opened in story) > date, created and modified dates a lot of induction can start to occur. > > Tones > > On Friday, 14 May 2021 at 22:18:45 UTC+10 jonligh...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Opinions / Share Experiences >> >> In the last few months Tiddlywiki has really taken off for me, I have >> learnt a little more on how to customise and also added plugins, my >> Tiddlywiki is now a year old and approaching 20MB. It is a knowledge base >> in an area that is not a completely hard science so it involves different >> opinions from different sources and lots of comparison of those sources. >> >> I am no longer thinking of Tiddlywiki as knowledge base but a learning >> tool because it allows me to find connections that my poor old organic >> memory just wouldn't be able find, after all learning is about connections >> between nuggets of information. >> >> These are the two biggest factors that have turbo-charged my Tiddlywiki >> >> 1. Adding the bi-directional linking of BLINK opened up new doors - >> unexpectedly quickly, I spent hours creating new paths and new tags >> simply >> when I turned this plugin on - instantly more connections and more >> thoughts >> and observations. >> 2. I added sidebar tools to filter my story river not just on 'date >> since created' as it was before but now optionally 'date since last >> modified' and also random[30]. I found the random filter amazing because >> it >> shows how we like to walk down well trodden paths. I found that throwing >> a >> random element in to use when I have nothing else better to do than >> examine >> my own notes of say12 months ago on certain topic really opened - this >> disrupts the pattern that since created/modified filters otherwise >> impose, >> ie the stuff that gets most attention continues to get most attention. >> Adding 'since modified' helped to shake things up, at least old forgotten >> tiddlers of merit once remembered could float near the surface again but >> random is a disrupter in this context and really shakes it up. >> >> I am interested if others have experiences to share? >> Also a massive thanks to Jerome for the gift that just keeps on giving >> Jon >> > -- 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/801f2aa4-914f-4c15-b639-f1233306a646n%40googlegroups.com.
