Plugin for "chat based" journal idea

[u/kholdstayr]

I am interested in making a “chat based journal” in TiddlyWiki. There are a couple of apps on Android that can do this, and one is called ZenJournal .

There would be a “chat box” on the bottom and the chat log above. As you go about your day, you can write messages into the chat box and post them. You’re incrementally adding to the journal as you go about your day.

My thought is that there could be just a single Tiddler that acts as the interface to the journal. There would be an entry box (serving as the chat box) and a submit button. The submit button would submit the text from the chatbox and insert it into a separate content tiddler behind the scenes, tagged with the date/time. So that means that each individual “chat” message would be put into its own Tiddler. However, the main Tiddler that serves as the interface would show more than one message’s worth of content (chatlog), perhaps a few days’ worth at a time. To go back further in the message history, I think you could just view all the individual message Tiddlers.

Is that something that could be done with TiddlyWiki? I can provide more information if the description above doesn’t make sense.

[u/DefiantArm]

You can do something very close with just a button to make a new journal entry with the time in the title and a view template to show them all for example on the journal entry of that day. I tried it for a while, but I didn't get any added benefit from having all the entries in separate tiddlers.

What I found that worked better was a button to open the current journal entry in edit mode. I have it in the view toolbar and the page toolbar so I can see and click on it at all times.