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tgrosinger / tw5-checklist

Simple checklist widget for TiddlyWiki5:
https://tgrosinger.github.io/tw5-checklist/
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Suggestion - Add drop down of selectable boilerplates #34

Open TiddlyTweeter opened 7 years ago

TiddlyTweeter commented 7 years ago

Taking into account previous comments by @tgrosinger and @telmiger, I modify my previous suggestion ...

1 - That Checklist has an OPTION to switch on USER BOILERPLATES. The default is OFF.

2 - Boilerplates being one line strings written by the user into one specific tiddler configuration (maybe a data tiddler?)

3 - Such that when an option to "Activate Boilerplates" is ON, as you type the relevant lines appear. And appear IN THE ORDER they are in the Tiddler that holds them. For instance, say you wanted to add "@@ something" starting to typing "@@" would filter a list to just items starting that way.

4 - You would click on the item to transfer it to the Checklist new entry field to finish editing it before adding it.

I no longer think a long history list of previously entered items would be in line with the Checklist approach. But a modest drop down of custom boilerplate items created by a user could well be.

I'm no programmer so I don't know how much work my idea creates, but such functionality I think could be a useful enhancement.

tgrosinger commented 7 years ago

@TiddlyTweeter, what caused you to shift from a history list to boilerplates?

TiddlyTweeter commented 7 years ago

Ciao Tony,

I looked back at how I have used Checklist so far to see what I really need to improve efficiency.

There was rarely anything repeated in most any of the lists. So it would end up a long list I'd rarely use with history.

On reflection, I think history lists are more pertinent to web & file browsing than what Checklist is doing.

The boilerplate approach has the advantage of keeping it down to exactly what is needed. In my case that is WikiText templates for various purposes (e.g. highlighting, colouring, linking) and some standard texts for a few repeated items.

Best wishes Josiah