Ive been thinking a lot about this recently Tony. Just wanted to +1 this and bring this back into the communal consciousness!
Diego On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 11:59:01 PM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: > > Folks, > > Perhaps I am off track, but I may as well voice observations during my > learning process, that may have a baring on future enhancements. As I learn > about filters and fields I was using the advanced search to investigate the > filter [fields[]] which lists the names of all fields in the tiddlywiki. Of > note is the list of links generated lend themselves to creating tiddlers > using each fields name. > > The parallel you would all be familiar with is tags and how you can create > tiddlers for each tag. Usefully then you can see references, tagged, list > and listed for that tag. In fact tag tiddlers are a great place to build > logic or views of your tiddlywiki by that tag, for example a References > tag, open the references tiddler and see a list of all references... > > So, I thought, what if fields are treated the same?, any field-name can > become a tiddler (already a fact), But what if we take this "feature" > further and allow default or possible values to be placed in a fields > corresponding tiddler, on that tiddlers fields and supplement the Info > button with field references? This could betaken further to define a fields > qualities even further such as allowable formats eg: number only, 2 decimal > places etc... > > As I discovered earlier it is actually practical to store in existing > tiddler fields, macro names, variable names and more so such an approach to > make fields a first class citizen could open up a universe of possibilities > further strengthening tiddly-wikis universal and Quine nature. > > Just food for thought > Tony > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/cd11812e-35c4-4c3a-8085-4ad122f1015e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
