I use several TW extensions or plugins. These aren't that hard to find. If Google isn't your friend, the main TW web site has links to the key add-on repositories. I'll warn that this describes my TW preferences and an organization structure that works for me. Different people find different ways of working that work for them. Your mileage may vary.
TW is text based, so all the formatting commands are combinations of characters, tags, etc. Remembering them isn't necessarily impossible, but I have better things to do in most cases, especially for color coding and other features. I tried several editor enhancements and settled on QuickEdit. It's a decent balance between usability and simplicity. I added Indent to the menu (positioned after Strikethrough) because I use that and the format tag is complex. In the QuickEdit_format tiddler, I copied the Strikethrough entry and replaced the strikethrough-specific lines with
title="{{indent{}}}" accesskey="N"
onclick="config.quickEdit.wrapSelection(this,'{{indent{','}}}'); return false;"
I also installed the TagsTree plugin. This lets me have a tree-view menu of important tags on the left side. The menu can be nested and items can appear in multiple parts of the menu if the tags overlap. This sounds confusing at first, but it's actually useful because I can tag something to where it properly belongs and as Pending Work or Research or whatever else applies so I see it both places. If I remove the cross-link tag, the entry drops out of that section, or I can change the tag and move it to another section. To simplify the TagsTree menu, I created a tag called zzMenu (zz makes it appear at the end of any list of tags and is my note-to-self that this is a configuration thing) and put that on any tag set I want to appear in the menu. Then the MainMenu tiddler becomes:
[[GettingStarted]]Finally, I installed RenameTags, which lets me rename a tag and change the tag in all the tagged entries. So if I change tag AAA to BBB, RenameTags will ask and, if I approve, all entries with tag AAA will be retagged to BBB, keeping the relationships between tags and tagged entries intact. I try to be smart about what I call my tags, but sometimes I realize I need to rethink. This plugin makes it easier.
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I have a few other plugins floating around my TW. Some of them were brought in to support the three above, but QuickEdit, TagsTree, and RenameTags get far more direct use than anything else.
My TagsTree menu (tagged zzMenu) contains the following entries
- Articles -- News articles that have an idea I (might) want to use. Pasting the text in TW makes them searchable.
- Books -- The story is broken into several "books". Each one has an entry that includes subitems for an Overview of the book (often linked out additional entries for sub-sections or arcs), notes, and anything else that I think belongs to the book as opposed to something more general.
- Characters -- Character entries. I tend to create these empty and fill them in as needed. Some characters are currently blank. Others are very detailed. Some are in between.
- Notes -- mostly the output of research and reading, I also capture cross-book issues to resolve (entries begin with "ISSUE" to make them obvious and group them together). I also have subfolders for certain groups of notes (notably kendo and youkai, both of which play important roles in the story)
- Pending Work -- things I need to do, think about, resolve, at some point. In some cases, this is specific entries in character information (not all characters, just specific points I need to address, for example, the names of an important character's parents on his Family Friends Relationships section), notes that need action, specific edits (begin with "EDIT" to make them obvious), etc. This becomes a one-stop place to look when I'm not sure what I need to do besides write/edit. As noted above, items drop out of Pending Work as they're completed--are tagged with zzPending Work Completed and show up in a submenu at the bottom of Pending Work. This lets me see progress on this section.
- Research -- areas where I need to do research. I tend to group related topics and strikethrough items as I complete them. The results of research end up in notes or information in other entries. As research is completed, I may embed links to those entries here if I feel it's important or if I think I might want to expand the research results.
- System Reference -- The only thing here right now is a list describing how to do markup. I found it somewhere online and pasted it here for the times
- zzSystem Info -- The systemConfig list is here (things that run or are setup as part of TW startup, basically all the add-ons). I also have a zzAppearance tag which I put on the StyleSheet and ColorPalette entries so I could find them easily. I used the latter two to tweak TW's appearance to suit my preferences.
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