Using TiddlyWiki to organize Epstein mails

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The Epstein scandal is currently shaking Norway, with the recently published documents demonstrating contact between him and highly trusted Norwegian public figures. The material is, however, complex, with a lot of overlap between documents and mail threads being spread all over. So… How to deal with complex structure? TiddlyWiki of course! I am curating the mail and sources as .tid files, and hosting them on github for versioning, using github action to build a singlefile wiki as interface

The interface needs some refinement, and going through the material is a lot of work. But feel free to have a look: https://andjar.github.io/epstein-norway-archive/

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This strikes me as a fantastic use of TW! Thank you for sharing.

One very minor hint: If you replace this in your calendar table:

<th style="background:#f4f4f4;"><$text text={{{ [<month>addprefix[2024]addsuffix[01]format:date[mmm]] }}}/></th>
<!--                                                                             ^^                          -->

with this:

<th style="background:#f4f4f4;"><$text text={{{ [<month>addprefix[2024]addsuffix[0112]format:date[mmm]] }}}/></th>
<!--                                                                             ^^^^                        -->

You will avoid most time-zone issues, and will avoid this problem that I’m seeing (in UTC-5):

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I’m not sure why I would want it, but I can easily imagine the months in your tables being links to virtual tiddlers, such as Boris Nikolic : 2012-10, which when opened showed the four emails Nikolic from October 2012.

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Thanks @Scott_Sauyet, good idea, I’ve updated the code!

Btw @Scott_Sauyet - I’ve added a custom search using the dynannotate plugin, do you know how I can re-use it for the default search modal?

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I don’t, and don’t have the time to play around with it before Friday.

Good luck!

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Hello @Anjar
great idea using TiddlyWiki for such a project.

I do not use the dynannotate plugin, so can’t help with your question.

I would suggest a look at Advanced Search by Byper if you haven’t seen it already, which may be useful to you.

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Thanks both; I managed to figure it out in the end; the clue was that the nico notebook theme implements its own sidebar search, so the changed had to be made in $:/themes/nico/notebook/ui/Sidebar/SearchResults and not in the core tiddler