G'day Edoardo,
Welcome to TiddlerHood !
TiddlyWiki is ridiculously flexible, and one can get it to do just about
anything short of pumping out toast.
It can totally accommodate you, how you think, how your work.
My thoughts: imagine a "create citation" button. You press it, and a nice
form appears with fields for you to fill out. You fill the fields, click
"Done", and the tiddler for your citation gets created, including whatever
bells and whistles automagically added to whatever fields in that tiddler
(example: the "citation" tag.)
Easy thing to do in TiddlyWiki. If you want a sample of what I have in
mind, let me know and I can whip something together if somebody hasn't
already beaten me to it, or if you haven't already found a "canned"
solution.
Cheers!
BTW, your post here in Google Groups do appear in the TiddlyTalk discourse
forum. So folk see your post.
They are more likely, though, to respond if you post over there. Me, I
have a cognitive disability and can't handle TiddlyTalk at all. So I am
quite happy to be of service here.
On Wednesday, January 26, 2022 at 2:48:57 AM UTC-4 Edoardo Milan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> First post in the community, thrilled! :) Discovering TW just now and very
> excited about it, thanks to everybody who's making it possible.
>
> I'm using tiddlydesktop with 5.1.22.
>
> I'd like to use TW to write down citations from books, and I would be
> specifying book's author and title and citation's page in tiddly fields (I
> was thinking to automatically generate the fields with buttons, through
> tm-new-tiddler
> or ActionCreateTiddlerWidget).
>
> So: ideally my tiddly title would then automatically be generated as
> {{author}}, {{title}}: {{pagenumber}} when I save my tiddly. Would this be
> possible some way? I have been looking into transclusion, more buttons,
> action widgets and so on but couldn't really come to a solution.
>
> Another workflow idea would be to write the citations in "subtiddlies"
> stemming from a book "parent tiddly" which would already contain author and
> title information, so that also those fields could get automatically filled
> in the citation subtiddly.
>
> Any idea or help in how to accomplish this? I'm discovering TiddlyWiki
> just now and not a developer so struggling a bit with these issues!!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Edoardo
>
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