I have been using Obsidian and I was wondering if one of its features exists in TB.
(I am almost 100% sure it does)
I have a set of documents that each contain common blocks of text.
I create a notes for each of the blocks and then I “trans-include” them into the bodies of the larger documents. (in Obsidian its ![[block of text]]
this does not place just a link to the note, it include the body of the note itself so I can see it in the context of the larger document and export as such.
The most elegant solution in Tinderbox is Explode Notes.
When the Note with your text blocks is selected, choose Note->Explode Note and create child notes with each block of included text.
Then link or reference those “atomic” notes for your intended use.
Tinderbox doesn’t include/transclude within the text $Text of a note. You can do so if you intend to read the note in Preview within the app or fully export it to HTML (or some other possible format).
The ‘code’ for doing this is, the export code ^include()^.
So we might have a note “A note” and we want to include the $Text of “Note B”. So, this is the $Text of ‘A note’:
I don’t use Obsidian with any regularity so whether this looks/seems like what you’re used to I can’t guess. I would caution against the fallacy that the norm is simply whatever we know best/use most. Tinderbox long predates Obsidian so likely has different approaches. Not better/worse, just different.
Here’s the TBX used to make the screen grabs above: include-example.tbx (175.0 KB)
The ‘demo’ is deliberately simple as it’s essentially a ‘minimum viable include’ to show the general process. In reality you’ll likely to make more nuanced use of the technique.
I use Obsidian quite a bit, and understand the technique that Obsidian uses and Dean reported. Yes, no Tinderbox does not support Obsidian-style transclusion. There are several threads here in this forum about “transclusion” (air quotes intended), and @mwra’s suggestion above is a good one for export. Another cousin of “transclusion” is to select several notes and their text will be collated in the text pane.
Personally, I’ve always been of two minds on whether transcluding text from one or more notes into another note makes sense for Tinderbox. It works for Obsidian because Obsidian is document-based and purpose-built for the transclusion use case.
