> Isn't that what the TOC macros already do for you?
Sort of. But they seem to want me to commit to a single 'container tag'.
It's a bit hard to explain, but imagine tiddlers with <title>: <tags> as
follows:
answer: Contents
question: Contents
annoyances: answer, question
osx: answer, question
Stop OS X from spamming thumb drives?: annoyances, answer, osx, question
If I put this in the 'Contents' page:
<div class="tc-table-of-contents">
<<toc-selective-expandable 'Contents' sort[title]>>
</div>
the result is (sorta) close to what I want, but there are a few issues:
1. The last tiddler shows up in the TOC tree *four* times.
2. I had to *manually* create a 'dummy' tiddler for each topic, and tag
it with 'answer' and 'question', which doesn't seem very scalable.
I'm sure this is expected behavior, it's just not ideal for what I had in
mind. What I'd really like is for questions tagged with 'answer' to only
show up under the 'answer' branch of the TOC. They can occur there multiple
times—once per 'topic tag'—but they shouldn't be listed anywhere under
'question' if they're also tagged with 'answer', and shouldn't be
duplicated in the rendering of the 'question' and 'answer' tiddlers
themselves. And I'd rather not have to manually maintain a taxonomy of
topics/tags.
Admittedly, this may be an XY problem <http://xyproblem.info/>. Perhaps
there are better ways to manage this information than to create a
'stateful' table of contents. I just tend to start each day asking, "Okay,
what questions am I trying to get answered today?" I'm open to suggestions
about other ways TW can help with this.
In the meantime, Tobias' xlist plugin looks like it might help, so I'll
give it a try. Thanks!
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 6:40 PM, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki <
tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Isn't that what the TOC macros already do for you? Let you create a
> multi-step table of contents?
>
> So a tiddler called "embedded" that is tagged with "Question" will appear
> under a top tiddler called Question. Likewise, a tiddler with a question
> "Can't embed QWidget in QML?" and tagged with "embedded" will appear
> beneath tiddler "embedded".
>
> How do you have your tiddlers tagged, and in what way do you consider
> their display to be incorrect?
>
> BTW, there are at least 4 other types of TOC macros to choose from, in
> case you want a different presentation style. Just search for "Example
> Table of" at tiddlywiki.com
>
> Good luck!
> Mark
>
> On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 3:07:51 PM UTC-8, Evade Flow wrote:
>>
>> At any given time, I have open questions—on a variety of different
>> topics—that I'm actively seeking answers to. I'm considering using TW to
>> manage this information. This video
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoMhKx0j8g> gave me the idea that I
>> could tag open questions with 'question', and then tag them with 'answer'
>> once I'd found an acceptable answer, using the presence/absence of the
>> 'answer' tag as way of determining which 'bucket' to sort the tiddler into.
>> That same video series (I think) explains how to use
>> '<<toc-selective-expandable>>' to create a 'Contents' tab in the sidebar.
>> Awesome!
>>
>> What I can't figure out is: how can I get TW to display a list of
>> questions in the sidebar, sorted by tag? I want a 'Contents' page in the
>> sidebar that lets me drill down into questions (and/or answers) by tag, as
>> implied by this bit of ASCII art:
>>
>> Questions
>>
>>
>> |
>>
>> ├── embedded
>>
>> │ └── Can't embed QWidget in QML?
>>
>> |
>>
>> ├── jenkins
>>
>> │ └── Pre-tested commits in Jenkins?
>>
>> |
>>
>> └── qt
>> ├── Can't embed QWidget in QML?
>>
>> └── Passing parent arg to Qt ctors?
>>
>> (NOTE: The list under each tag should itself be expandable.)
>>
>> I've been furiously pasting various snippets of I-don't-know-what found
>> on the Interwebs into my 'Contents' tiddler, hoping that something would
>> 'click' for me, but the sources I'm pasting from assume a great deal of
>> familiarity with the ecosystem. Since I *just* started looking into
>> TiddlyWiki, I don't really understand the things I'm pasting, and it
>> doesn't feel like I'm getting any closer to a solution.
>>
>> Can anybody explain—in terms a newcomer can understand—how to accomplish
>> this?
>>
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