diff --git a/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/concepts/Tiddlers.tid b/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/concepts/Tiddlers.tid index 868a9a860..4e475452c 100644 --- a/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/concepts/Tiddlers.tid +++ b/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/concepts/Tiddlers.tid @@ -1,8 +1,11 @@ -created: 201308252135 -modified: 201308300907 +created: 20130825213500000 +modified: 20140214213936575 tags: concepts title: Tiddlers +type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki -Tiddlers are the smallest unit of information in TiddlyWiki. They can be structured with [[links|TiddlerLinks]] and tags. +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 vaguely preposterous name it at least has the virtue of being confusingly distinctive rather than confusingly generic. + +Tiddlers can be structured with [[links|TiddlerLinks]] and tags. 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.