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2008-02-26

I haven’t had much time to mess with this lately. I’m afraid this may be like my many other hobbies where I start out enthusiastic, but as time goes on I gradually lose interest. I hope not.

I’m trying to wrap my head around Mattis’ comment on my last post, back in December. My interpretation (and if Mattis wanders back here, maybe he can correct me) is that the page I’m editing right now (2008-02-26) is an “unspecified” date page, as in, it has not been assigned a category or subject. Whereas if I named the page 2008-02-26-Talk or 2008-02-26-Ramblings, then this page would have a category or subject (“Talk” or “Ramblings”), and so could also be searched by those terms, and not only by the date. It seems to me, though, if it were a pure diary entry, then I may not have a particular subject, and so a date may be all I want to name it.

I need to spend some more time reading some of the tutorials and help pages, I suppose. This may all be explained somewhere. For all I know, I may have read all about it and then forgot in the interval. That’s the problem with doing something “hit or miss.” By the time I get back to do something, I’ve forgotten how.

Darren

MattisManzel?:
Well, Darren, you describe a problem I know as well - loosing interest, I mean. Just do as you feel and find out later what you persist on. ;)

It’s not about category or subject. “Specifying” a day-page-set by adding _WhatSoEver? simply gives you the possibility to create a page that includes all day-pages with that particular specification, the youngest day-page on top. The line

 <journal 30 "^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d_WhatSoEver">

does it. Only _WhatSoEver? day-pages get included into it. When using the unspecified

 <journal 30 "^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d">

all day-pages get included, unspecified or how ever specified ones.

The rss-feed for a specified day-page-set adds new entries on top.

 http://www.communitywiki.org/odd/DarrensWiki?action=rss&full=1&days=90&match=%5E%5Cd%5Cd%5Cd%5Cd-%5Cd%5Cd-%5Cd%5Cd.*WhatSoEver

I hope this helps. Cu.