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Use `caption` instead of `shorttext`

Open iilyak opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Awesome plugin. Are there any downsides to replace use of a shorttext field with caption. Tiddlywiki have special logic to handle caption field. In particular it is displayed correctly in TOCs and in results produced by list filters. So I ended up providing the same text in two fields shorttext to make DropBoard happy and caption field to make rest of Tiddlywiki happy. However in order to do it there are way too many clicks required:

  • drag "New Tiddler" into column
  • type shorttext and text
  • drag created card onto "open in main story"
  • scroll up where the tiddler is opened
  • click "edit the tiddler"
  • type caption in Add new field
  • type the same text as in shorttext in the value of the field
  • click add
  • save tiddler

Which is very inconvenient. I would prefer to enter caption when I drug "New Tiddler" draggable into column. I am afraid that changing the https://github.com/reidgould/tiddlywiki-dropboard/blob/gh-default/Source/editions/dropboard-plugin/plugins/dropboard/tiddlers/templates/edit/Card.tid#L49 line wouldn't be enough and it might be more complex change.

iilyak avatar Feb 13 '19 00:02 iilyak

And that shorttext field can't be searched currently, make it quite dangerous to use.

linonetwo avatar Apr 08 '20 07:04 linonetwo

Yes, there are issues, but when using caption instead - you lose full featured text formatting on this "short text".

gMakaan avatar Nov 24 '20 16:11 gMakaan