6th March 2023 Newsletter
Covers: Feb 20th 2023 thru Mar 5th 2023
News
Development Roadmap
Today we have frozen the new features for the upcoming TiddlyWiki version v5.2.6, scheduled for release on 20th March 2023. You can see the prerelease at https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease. We would appreciate help testing it to check whether everything works with your existing customizations and plugins. You can use the online (but downloadable) updgrader to test it, but of course we do not recommend running the new version in production until it is released. Feedback is welcomed in the discussion group, GitHub, or via Twitter.
As ever, the first rule of TiddlyWiki applies: make sure you have backed up your data!
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Articles
Using ChatGPT & TiddlyWiki
The short version: Users are experiencing a wide variety of results. Caution should be used as most are finding the answers provided by ChatGPT highly unreliable.
Ongoing Discussions here & here
Successes
I've been looking for the perfect note taking app for the past 10 years. I listed all my requirements to ChatGPT and it recommended #TiddlyWiki. My thoughts and life have never been so organized before. Thank you for this gift! - Miladiouss
Others having less than Success
Discussions
“Be Rad” Custom Layout
While still very much a work-in-progress, my on-going customization feels complete enough to post about again. Since all the major UI elements are very dependant on an alternative layout, I can’t currently release anything as plugins, so I’ll just call this an edition.
Explore the Be Rad Edition here
Plugins
Subsume Plugin Updated
"...so that it takes the caption field of a subsumed tiddler into account, and displays that in the details summary element rather than the tiddler title."
Thank you @Scribs for the recommended update to the Subsume Plugin, and to @EricShulman for the tweak to make it work correctly.
by Dave Gifford
Update Discussion here
Plugin here
SuperTag Plugin: Auto-generate a field editor
Auto generate input form on a tiddler by simply adding a SuperTag to it. Create a SuperTag by compositing existing TraitTags.
by Lin Onetwo
Discussion here
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