TiddlyWiki5/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/concepts/Tiddlers.tid

created: 20130825213500000
modified: 20140621092710560
tags: concepts
title: Tiddlers
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki

Tiddlers are the smallest unit of information in TiddlyWiki. Other systems have analogous concepts with more prosaic names: like "items", "entries", "entities" or "records". Even though "tiddler" is a bit of a preposterous name it has the virtue of being confusingly distinctive rather than confusingly generic.

Internally, tiddlers are an immutable dictionary of name:value pairs called fields. The only field that is required is the `title` field, but useful tiddlers also have a `text` field, and some or all of the standard fields listed in TiddlerFields.
Add a bit of the old TWC text talking about the "tiddler" name 2014-02-14 22:22:31 +00:00			`created: 20130825213500000`
Docs update 2014-06-21 10:16:48 +00:00			`modified: 20140621092710560`
Get rid of the 'docs' tag It was unnecessary, since everything here is documentation 2013-08-25 20:41:00 +00:00			`tags: concepts`
Docs update 2013-06-02 22:18:07 +00:00			`title: Tiddlers`
Add a bit of the old TWC text talking about the "tiddler" name 2014-02-14 22:22:31 +00:00			`type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki`
Docs update 2012-06-10 16:27:09 +00:00
Docs update 2014-06-21 10:16:48 +00:00			`Tiddlers are the smallest unit of information in TiddlyWiki. Other systems have analogous concepts with more prosaic names: like "items", "entries", "entities" or "records". Even though "tiddler" is a bit of a preposterous name it has the virtue of being confusingly distinctive rather than confusingly generic.`
Docs update 2012-06-10 16:27:09 +00:00
Lots of docs updates 2013-08-30 19:06:23 +00:00			Internally, tiddlers are an immutable dictionary of name:value pairs called fields. The only field that is required is the `title` field, but useful tiddlers also have a `text` field, and some or all of the standard fields listed in TiddlerFields.