Data Dictionaries: A Simple HowTo

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1 create a data dictionary tiddler (type: data dictionary).

2 In it, place some keys and values:

e.g. 2026-06-17: Wednesday, the 17th of June, the Year of Our Lord and Saviour Two-Thousand Twenty-Six

…etc.

Make the values as long as you like; paragraphs or even essays long if you’re so inclined.

3 Save it, of course.

In another tiddler (a normal one), transclude: {{MyDictionaryTiddler##MyKeyName}}

e.g. {{June26##2026-06-17}}

Less tiddlers, more data. Faster inputs, better machine performance. Smaller, simpler tidllers, easy to import, export.

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Each entry in a “data dictionary tiddler” (type=application/x-tiddler-dictionary) is a single line of text ending with a newline (or the end of the tiddler itself). Thus, while that text can be as long as you like, it cannot be “paragraphs” or an “essay” since those would almost certainly contain newlines as part of the value.

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