- If you are going to use mostly regular “sections” (e.g. always the same four times of day),
- if you might want to view/compare certain sections from multiple days (e.g. view all Mornings together),
- if the individual sections make sense to be viewed on their own, without looking at the rest of the sections or data from that day
then going for separate tiddlers for the sections/times of day is a good idea. If you’re unsure, it is always safer to give the data too much structure (splitting into separate tiddlers) and then collapse/compress, than the other way around.
- If, on the other hand, you might use “irregular” sections with varying, free-text headings,
- if their content makes sense only next to the other sections in this day
then storing everything in the day/journal tiddler seems easier and not overdone. If you go this way, the Section Editor plugin might be of your interest. Although my personal view is that if I need section editor for a tiddler, this means that tiddler is too long and should be split. And as a new user, I would try to avoid relying on plugins too much with my data structure.
Grok TW is a great resource, I started with it too. Bear in mind that there are some new nice things in the recent TW versions, which make some of the problems discussed in Grok much easier to solve or understand. If you’re interested, I would suggest taking a quick look at:
- procedures, which are “better macros”, easier to understand and use.
- conditional shortcut syntax, which is sometimes easier to use that the list widget.
- functions, which let you save and reuse filter expressions.