Displaying a random quote in TiddlyWiki

Oh goodie, another post about TiddlyWiki¹.

There was a recent thread on Micro.blog about surfacing older content in order to find things that might have otherwise been forgotten. I love this idea, so I added a Random Quote tiddler to my wiki. Here’s how I did it.

Installed Matt’s ‘Shuffle Operator’ plugin²

Then, I created a new tiddler, Random Quote, to display the random quote.

Last, I added the following to the Random Quote tiddler:

<$list filter="[tag[Quote]shuffle<now>limit[1]]">

    { {!!text} }

</$list>

(Remove the space between sets of curly braces, those are there so they render correctly here)

That’s it! Now the Random Quote tiddler will display a single, (relatively) random tiddler selected from all tiddlers tagged with “Quote”, although any Filter expression could be used to determine the list of tiddlers to pull from.

January 26, 2019 tiddlywiki Reply by email