List and link all tiddlers that contain the current tiddlers' title in their text

#1

Hello there,

I want to create a list of tiddlers that contain the current tiddler’s title in the text, e.g.:
“Reference Tiddler” should contain the list
in the list there should be links to the Tiddlers that contain “Reference Tiddler” in their text

So far I couldn’t find a solution for this and can’t do it on my own. I am new to TiddlyWiki and also don’t have experience with javascript. Nonetheless this could be a great tool for me and I hope that you can help me with that.

Best regards,
Deniz

#2

Very doable! Keep in mind that searching for a string through all of the text field of all other tiddlers can bog down if your wiki gets big.

<<list-links filter:"[search<currentTiddler>]">>

in a tiddler with the tag
$:/tags/ViewTemplate

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#3

The following code, will find all backlinks if you used [[Reference Tiddler]] as a link in other tiddlers

<<list-links filter:"[<currentTiddler>backlinks[]]" class="multi-columns">>

If you create a style-tiddler eg: myStyles tagged: $:/tags/Stylesheet it will create 4 columns.

/* WikiText rules */

.multi-columns {
	display: block;
	column-count: 4;
	column-gap: 1em;
	-moz-column-count: 4;
	-moz-column-gap: 1em;
	-webkit-column-count: 4;
	-webkit-column-gap: 1em;
}

@media (max-width: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/sidebarbreakpoint}}) {
	.multi-columns {
		column-count: 2;
	}
}
#4

My impression is that OP is not talking about actual links — just finding the string that corresponds to currentTiddler’s title…

But indeed, making hard links is a better path, if you can do it that way!

#5

Also remember the Freelinks plugin will generate a link to any tiddler title found in the text when you are viewing a tiddler.

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#6

Thanks for the quick responses!

Springers solution is working for me.
Will this search for a string if used often be an issue later on? Right now I am saving all files outside the wiki and link to them to keep it smaller. Or does that not change anything

#7

I’m not sure what you mean by “files”. Image files are notorious for bogging down a TiddlyWiki project if they are actually stored as data within image tiddlers…

But this question about the performance of a <<list-links>> macro — one whose filter searches every other tiddler’s text field — should not be directly affected by this question of where your “files” are stored.

It does, however, matter just how much text is being searched.

Here’s a good test case: try visiting the TiddlyWiki recently shared by @Scott_Sauyet — a wiki that serves up the whole King James Bible — and make a tiddler called “Joses” with this content:

<<list-links filter:"[search<currentTiddler>]">>

The fact that Joses is only mentioned a handful of times doesn’t matter. This list-links macro still trawls through all 32 thousand tiddlers, looking for “Joses” in the text field. So it takes a couple seconds to render.

Looking for [<currentTiddler>backlinks[]] (tiddlers with links to the current tiddler) is faster, though, since links are more efficiently tracked.

#8

See this reflection on using freelinks, together with a list-links macro view template, on a fairly large wiki:

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#9

Keep in mind freelinks can be turned off when not in use, and a list links could be hidden behind a details widget, or in a tiddler that only generates the list on demand.

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