… and I expect it to remain so, but who knows?
tl;dr Unrestricted annotation editing in Tiddlywiki
Picture the scene…
<dream>
You read something on the web in a browser. While reading, you think of something, a thought, an idea, something semi-related. “I should make a note of that.”
In the case of TiddlyWiki, you have a number of options, none of which needs to be documented or discussed here beyond this: some several minutes later, you have captured what you need, in a tiddler incorporating the original, your additional thought/idea and have it neatly filed away.
In my dream however, I’m already in my TiddlyWiki when I think of something semi-related. I click somewhere near the spot where the idea occurred to me (i.e. the anchor point), a box pops up, I enter my idea and close the box. That took several seconds, not minutes. The tiddler in question displays an icon/button at the anchor point, linking to the inevitable sub-tiddler that hosts the idea/thought.
</dream>
Clearly, for this to work requires a dense underlying construct far beyond what we know of as “a tiddler” today. Perhaps, a little like CodeMirror works, a click-through layer lives atop each tiddler’s body, a matrix of potential anchor points meshed with a computationally aware, predictable mapping to potential tiddlers used as annotations for my ideas. Perhaps, again like CodeMirror, each word is a potential anchorable point ™.
Perhaps when I’m retired from my day job I’ll try to write something like this. In the meantime, I’ll leave it here, possibly gathering dust, hopefully germinating into something a little more tactile than a dream