Thank you for this mod! Also, thank you for the tagging theory link. I speak a bit about that particular link here: 2019.06.07 - Tagging Theory: At Last <https://philosopher.life/#2019.06.07%20-%20Tagging%20Theory%3A%20At%20Last>. I only see part of what your tool can do, but I must gush about it. Please ignore at will the autistic schizoid describing what it feels like to use it in the following word-salad wall-of-text.
Locator allows me to traverse the some of gunkiness of my wiki with both a rich set of ad hoc paths and the means to sanely narrow or grow the search space. You've given me an interactive nested-doorway device for incrementally unrolling known and unknown structures in my wiki. Delightfully, I don't have to know all that much up front to find what I'm looking for in many cases. Meaningful hierarchies arise from limited input and manual planning on my part via a gradual revelation. To various degrees, I don't have to know the boundaries of where I'm going or what I'm looking for; you allow me to bootstrap one off the other. Salience has a higher chance of emerging from smaller bits of information in your plateau-hopping mapper goggles. In a way, your tool is very fast; it's an exploration hack. I could technically explore all of this without your tool, but you lower the friction for me to rapidly explore different perspectives, angles, or scopes in a rhizome. I wouldn't have the energy to connect all those dots by hand; hence this is a powertool. While I may be dead wrong, I suspect those who are more diligent in their hard-coded tag-based organization practices will not find as much value from your tool as those who have a more freeform and carelessly sprawling approach to structuring their wikis via tags (like mine) because it picks low-hanging fruit. You turn some apparent heaps into stacks. Your tool is a GUI abstraction for rapidly stepping back and forth through doorways in my wiki by automating the construction of complex filter expressions in stages with minimal effort; even someone who doesn't know anything about TW can learn to use your tool. I visualize my wiki in directory-like hierarchies built into the bodies and names of my tiddlers. I am wired to visualize in hierarchies, not tags. You make what is hard to remember about the fluid messiness and dimensionality of tags easier to visualize; I feel like a flatlander who has another tool for testing the nature of the 3D hyperobjects he can't quite perceive. Maybe tags are a higher-ordered glue for me, and your tool a lubricant which lowers the cognitive load. I think your tool empowers lazier tagging for that fluid arbitrary relation construction (since tags also serve as functional properties in other cases). I've not built a single tag-based TOC in my wiki, and now I can traverse my wiki as if I had written all of the intuitive tag-based TOCs I wished I had. I am curious to know if this search-force multiplying tool gives rise to tagging strategies only feasible in virtue of it. I have two tangent ideas for hopefully everyone to think about long-term. First, I'm convinced your tool is a working, scalable, and performant example of a broader class of relationship-representation tools for more visually reasoning about knowledge so well-suited to wikis. I simply can't use real-time mindmapping visualization tools on my wiki because they are too slow (for now). I hope to see more graphical tooling like yours which abstracts over meaningful yet generalized types of filter/query construction. If you play Magic, https://scryfall.com/advanced is a fantastic example of what it means to give a user meaningful navigational control through without forcing them to write dozens of SQL queries. I'm convinced a graphical way to construct First-Order Logic expressions (and hence arbitrarily complex filter expressions) will always be a promising direction. Second, I use TW as an ergodic hypertext writing tool. Links are green-threaded tags for me. To put it into perspective, I have hundreds of tags, but I have tens of thousands of links internally pointing in my wiki (and also outside to the web and other networks). Some people think the meanings of words are defined in terms of how we use them, and there is something to that. Similarly, the meaning of my tiddlers are often in virtue of how they are linked to and from each other in my wiki; tags only express a portion of the structure I'm trying to construct. Rapid navigation of child backlinks in $:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/References and ancestor links stripped out of bodies (perhaps fields as well) might be somewhat parallel to what is achieved in your tooling. Perhaps I've said nothing new or valuable to you, but I've said it just in case. Your tool is Leet, sir. Thank you for your work, and you've given me a lot to think about. On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 6:27:07 PM UTC-4, bimlas wrote: > > Thanks, TonyM, it seems to work (while h0p3 do not changing the title of > "Maps" tab), so I attaching the modified button: I've added two lines for > it to open the right tabs: > > ... > <$action-listops $tiddler="$:/state/bimlas/locator" $field="breadcrumbs" > $filter=[[]]/> > <$action-listops $tiddler="$:/state/bimlas/locator" $field="ancestor-tags" > $filter=[[]]/> > <!-- Added lines --> > <$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/state/tab/sidebar--595412856" text="Maps"/> > <$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/state/tab-1115086957" text="Locator view"/> > <!-- End of added lines --> > > <$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]" variable="listItem" > > > {{$:/core/images/chevron-right}} > ... > > It works only in h0p3's wiki! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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