Rapid note taking with needing titles

Q & A - getting started with Tinderbox
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So i like to just create a lot of notes, rapidly.
but having to come up with a title causes me cognitive friction.
Is there anyway that creating a new note just goes to the body and…maybe the title is created automatically from the first few words of the first time?

I have been away from TB for a while, but i’m back baby!
YEAH!

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Tinderbox expects titles.

Titles are a good thing; titles greatly improve fundability, and title invite reflection and anticipation.

If you really dislike choosing a title, just use any convenient abbreviation, such as “A”, for the title and type away in the text. Use a rule or edict to set $Name to (say) the first sentence of the text if a note’s name is “A”.

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copy that

thanks!

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For actual code you could consider something like:

// get the first sentence of $Text
var:string vName = $Text.paragraphs(0);
// no point in re-setting the name if already done
if($Name!=vName){
   $Name = vName;
};

Want the $Name to be the first 5 words of $Text? Try:

// get the first five words of $Text
var:string vName = $Text.words(5)+"…";
// no point in re-setting the name if already done
if($Name!=vName){
   $Name = vName;
};
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Another approach is to do your rapid note taking in a single note, and later use Explode to break that note down to individual notes. The techniques mentioned above in this thread can be accomplished with Explode, too.

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Is there a shortcut to jump between the Title window and the Text window?
Tab key only allows to switch between Title and Subtitle.

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Title window? If you mean between the view pane and text pane of the document window (see description), then use the Toggle Focus shortcut:

Tab+[Opt] toggles input focus: $Text → first Displayed Attribute → main view → $Text

Otherwise, can you claify what you mean by the ‘title window’?

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That’s exactly what I mean!
Thank you!

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Rifing off Paul’s idea on Explode. You could consider adopting markdown to separate yoru note ideas or come up with your own dellination syntax, e.g.,

# for big ideas
## for sub ideas
`*’ for bullets

or you might use §, †, ¶, ‡, ¡¡, !! to separate your ideas. What the eliminator is is not important; what is important is that it is a unique pattern that TBX can parse against.

If you develop a nested syntax for yourself, rather than using Exploe, you might find the use of one of the stream parser operators useful, e.g., .eachLine(). We did a meetup on this idea a few weeks back: Tinderbox Meetup Saturday 13 Jul., 2024: Tinderbox 10 Review, Explode, and Each Line Stream Parsing.

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Thank you to all for all of your help and suggestions.

#gratitude

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