WHitWoT #3 (Jan 15-22, 2008)

Welcome to the third edition of "What Happened in the World of TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short.

WHitWoT summarises what's happened lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki world.

News, New Stuff and Updated Stuff

TiddlyWiki Vox Pop

Alex Hough started a thread on the discussion list asking what you like about TiddlyWiki, and what you use it for.

The responses are all worth a look. I especially liked Eric's "ways to explain what TiddlyWiki is".

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/63c4c9d759a531d8

New theme — moz-inspired

Adrian announced a new theme "moz-inspired", modified from K2WS, that was inspired by the old Mozilla Firefox look. It may or may not make it to tiddlythemes.com :)

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/76caaf803eb25df7

My Notes TiddlyWiki: new version - 2.1

Dave Gifford released a major upgrade to his "My Notes TiddlyWiki". This adaptation is great for collecting notes when doing research, and it handles bibliographic data too. Check out the announcement thread for discussion including EndNote and Zotero.

[source] http://www.giffmex.org/emptynotestw.html
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/3f9caf4bf63f490a

TiddlersBar now supports keypress switching between tabs

The latest version of TiddlersBar (version 1.2.5) now supports switching to next and previous tabs with Alt + Shift + (key). The plugin has options to set the actual keys used.
[source] http://visualtw.ouvaton.org/VisualTW.html#TiddlersBarPlugin
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/b637fb983e54727f

ImageSizePlugin does what it says on the box

The inimitable Eric Shulman has produced a new plugin that lets you specify image size like this:
[img(50%,100px)[image.jpg]]
I reckon there's all sorts of awesome things you could do with a percentage-sized image that adjusts to your browser size. And bonus points for a demo that appears to show a cat being sucked into a black hole.
[source] http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ImageSizePlugin

TiddlerEncryptionPlugin can now forget passwords

Lyall Pearce's latest update to TiddlerEncryptionPlugin now offers the option to forget passwords (instead of caching them for the duration of the session). This might be useful if you want to leave your TW open all day, but only occasionally need to check your encrypted info.

[source] http://remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlerEncryptionPlugin.html#TiddlerEncryptionPlugin
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/12434a89811b5e23

Online Discussions

Synchronising between TiddlyWikis

David Masterson asked about syncing between TiddlyWikis for distributing project management tasks. FND and Eric mentioned RippleRap[1] and ImportTiddlersPlugin[2] respectively, but I'm not sure they completely cover the use case David originally suggested. Hopefully the community will be able to come up with a solution for this space.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/8daf5fc88ce2210e
[1] http://www.ripplerap.com
[2] http://www.tiddlytools.com/#ImportTiddlersPlugin

Using multiple TiddlyWikis at once

Dave Gifford described his interesting arrangement for using several TWs at once. He uses a parent TiddlyWiki that contains iframes in which he loads the child TWs. Eric pointed out his FramedLinksPlugin that also uses iframes to load links.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/0528ba5b5491cd01
[3] http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#FramedLinksPlugin

Using highlighting in TiddlyWiki

Digital Doctor requested a prescription for using alternate colours when highlighting. Eric Shulman's answer would have put this into WHitWoT's Quick Shots secion, except there was a big discussion afterward about how to incorporate CSS into your TiddlyWiki that covered stuff like transcluding[4] other CSS stylesheets into the StyleSheet tiddler, and Eric was even inspired to update his QuickEdit toolbar[5] to have a swatch palette.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/bf769083afbbbf9a
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion
[5] http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_format

Checklists

Xavier Vergés asked about the best way to do checklists in TiddlyWiki. This is something that Simon and I have discussed in a GTD context before, so the suggestions here were particularly interesting.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/79cd4064f4005579

Custom formats for the TagglyTagging list?

Kashgarinn asked about doing a custom format for the TagglyTagging list, for example to include phone numbers in the tagglylist of your Contacts tiddler. Simon Baird proposed using HideWhen[6] to selectively replace the tagglylist with a ForEachTiddler[7] construction. This is an interesting idea, I'd like to see an working example.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/0ab6d8d9fb58671a
[6] http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#HideWhenPlugin
[7] http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#ForEachTiddlerPlugin

Quick Shots

Postdrivel

Quite a bit of TagglyTagging talk in this edition. If you haven't tried TagglyTagging before, check out Simon's tutorial and FAQ at http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/

;Daniel

About WHitWoT

WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google Group by Daniel Baird. Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki fan, runs tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame, and wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still there.

Find (and subscribe to) WHitWoT at Daniel's blog:
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/search/label/WHitWoT
..and posted ocasionally at the TiddlyWiki Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki

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WHitWoT #3 (Jan 15-22, 2008)