I’m trying to streamline my workflow in TiddlyWiki by writing all of my notes, tasks, and bookmarks directly into journal tiddlers — without having to create separate tiddlers for every little thing.
Here’s how my journal entries typically look:
#bookmark #frontend
- https://dribbble.com/ use this site for UI/UX examples
#todo #frontend
- implement a registration page using React
What I’d like to do is:
Continue writing in my daily journal tiddlers only.
Tag these journal tiddlers with journal or name them by date (e.g., 2025-05-26).
Have a “frontend” tiddler automatically display all lines from journal tiddlers that contain #frontend.
Similarly, have a “bookmarks” tiddler display all #bookmark entries.
In other words, I want to filter and extract specific lines from across journal tiddlers using inline tags like #frontend, #bookmark or #todo and show them grouped on their respective pages
I’d love to do this using filters and transclusions, but I’m not sure how to properly set it up.
Has anyone done something similar, or can guide me on how to make this work?
The purpose of recording and organising information is so that it can be used again. The value of recorded information is directly proportional to the ease with which it can be re-used.
The philosophy of tiddlers is that we maximise the possibilities for re-use by slicing information up into the smallest semantically meaningful units with rich modelling of relationships between them. Then we use aggregation and composition to weave the fragments together to present narrative stories.
TiddlyWiki aspires to provide an algebra for tiddlers, a concise way of expressing and exploring the relationships between items of information.
In your case the smallest meaningful unit are different lines within a tiddler. And that causes your problem.
From your example I can see, that you would need a “Overview tiddler” that is able to
Create related links
One tiddler contains all the links that belong together
Add related Todo’s
The Todo’s are single tiddlers
Todo’s can become “journals”
The Journal-tiddler would be a summary, or overview tiddler.
That’s exactly an edition that I personally use daily since 2017.
It is called “Script Manager”, since it was initially intended to be used to record URL links to “scripts” of all forms and copy / paste the important / summarised content into my personal wiki.
The full intro of the project is still at GoogleGroups - Everything is fully documented in videos. So everyone can follow and see, how I did create it.
You can download empty.html from tiddlywiki.com and import the file below.
So you can play with it.
