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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 7, 2012 at 02:54 PM
Daly,
I still am a bit of a novice myself, so this advice might not be what you would get from one of the pros on the Forum, but here’s what I would do:
First of all, I would use Category for AUTHOR or QUOTE and not for the theme. This way, CT will create a nice indexed page for both those types of topics.
Next, I would use attributes to designate the theme and the author within the quotes. So your quote topics will like like this:
[[$CATEGORY:Quote]]
The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and even?ultimately, God willing, one day?that you might be able to join that special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men’s eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself.
Author: [[AUTHOR:=Wolfe, Tom]]\\
Theme: [[THEME:=Bravery]]
Note that the author attribute is exactly the same as the title for the topic of the author in question. This is important because it will then automatically add a list of topics that have that author as an attribute into the author topic.
Your author topics will look like this:
[[$CATEGORY:Author]]
**Web sites**:\\
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolfe
**Bio**:\\
Thomas Kennerly “Tom” Wolfe, Jr. (born March 2, 1931)[1] is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Here are some screen captures of what the finished results will look like:
See here for what one of the quote topics will look like in View mode: http://db.tt/WZcRL9HL
See here for what one of the author topics will look like in View mode: http://db.tt/q1Khc2p2
See here for a screen shot of what the topic Author will look like: http://db.tt/8hVww29X
Of course, this is all just one way to do this.
Steve Z.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 7, 2012 at 02:56 PM
Oops. I mixed up identifying a couple of those screen shots. Here’s a correction:
See here for what the topic Author will look like in View mode: http://db.tt/q1Khc2p2
See here for a screen shot of what the topic Wolfe, Tom will look like: http://db.tt/8hVww29X
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 8, 2012 at 05:02 PM
FWIW, I just put together a blog posting that, I hope, explains a little better the approach to building this simple quotation database in ConnectedText. You can find the posting here: http://wp.me/pa4lV-he
Steve Z.
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 9, 2012 at 11:04 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>FWIW, I just put together a blog posting that, I hope, explains a little better the
>approach to building this simple quotation database in ConnectedText. You can find
>the posting here: http://wp.me/pa4lV-he
Thanks for the helpful blog post, it did clarify some things for me. Though I’m still having trouble figuring out what exactly I can use properties and attributes for within my current project, as so far categories did the job for me. It seems to me that to use properties/attributes one needs to have a reasonably clear idea of the kind of database one wants to build. But as I’m using CT for analysing texts (breaking them up into smaller chunks based on content, annotating them with headers, linking them to each other), it is only towards the end that it becomes clear to me what categories I should be using, and up until now I haven’t found a use for properties/attributes, even though I’m itching to figure them out and make use of them somehow.
Posted by exatty95
Apr 10, 2012 at 09:57 AM
One of the features I like about Tinderbox is the ease with which I can use Stamps to retrospectively add/change attributes as structure emerges or shifts in my growing database. I’m just starting to use ConnectedText and am the rawest of newbies, but I hope that there are similar features that make it easy to plop information into CT and later define attributes/properties/connections as I recognize or adjust them.