Ciao @twMat, my 2 cents …
After thought your post motivated me to look at what I’m doing in maintaining my TW. I realised it was sloppy!
My point? I think your post is very rich. To me it is pointing in two (useful) directions …
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Tools to ease handling customisation
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Getting your brain & ass in gear to properly track and document what one did
For the single best existing practical approach to address both issues is use of @pmario’s Bundler plugin, I think. I noticed others in this thread use it and promote it. Rightly.
What they don’t say so clearly is how far PMario has gone with it to make it the premiere import/export tool. It deals with near all of the Transportation & Documentation issues that bespoke configurations have.
In brief, the Bundler …
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Let’s you add comments in the normal Bundles. This is great as the source and the comments go together. It is a minimalist approach. That makes it maintainable.
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Provides a mechanism via the Info Panel of every bundle to see what is in the package, determine if anything is missing, delete any item.
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For Filter Bundles, it can also pass the filter to Advanced Search for good integration into normal use.
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Unlike other import/export options it allows you to transport state tiddlers. That is very helpful when your setup/config uses them.
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Option to permanently record all imports to an Import Bundle. That allows both tracking of what you did and enables easy archiving of all imports to a JSON output. It is editable.
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Interestingly, the Bundler and any bespoke settings for it can be bundled into a bundle so you can transport the Bundler along with the other transportees.
Here is an example of a bundle’s contents I have …
Promo over. I will make one more comment, shortly.
TT