A "Mentalize this!" function for each page...

Here you can look at "what lies beneath" a page; its "meta-data" - i.e. its context (how it fits in to the whole), its connections (references to this page from others in the form of Links, and its Topics and Sub-topics), and its history - how it has been developed over time, other versions, etc... This kind of musing about the content has lots in common with our core theory of Mentalization.

How do I find this on a page?

You will find that every page (Tiddler) has an additional panel that you reveal by clicking in the black box (titled "Show references and info") just to the right of the main title. When you click on this, the panel slides open up to reveal a number of headings, that give you information about this page and how it fits together with the rest of what is in the manual:

Headings in the "Show references and info" panel:

Information

Under this heading you can look at:

• Who has Edited the content of the tiddler
• When it was edited last
• You can browse the history of revisions that led to it arriving in its present form (note that TiddlyManuals emphasise the fact that all treatments are "works in progress".)
• Any References to this tiddler in the form of Links to it from other tiddlers - this is a useful way to look for other material that is likely to be covering similar or neighbouring territory.

Elsewhere - Comparing

TiddlyManuals are designed to provide a platform for teams to work out their own implementation of best practice, and they provide a number of Comparing and Sharing functions so that workers from one team can easily compare/contrast their methods of working with those of other teams, and can share best practice among a geographically and culturally diverse Community of Practice.

You can see also Manualization, which explains how a locally-adapted TeamTemplate is produced, that describes how THIS team, working with THESE problems, in THIS setting is working. This adds up to a Dynamic, adaptive Manualization that grows and differentiates over time, as experience and evidence accumulates, while best new practices can be shared more widely and more quickly as required.

Using the buttons in the Elsewhere menu, content that diverges between different versions of the manual (different TeamTemplates) can be compared:

• If there are different versions available, you can click on the 'Compare' button, and you will see a drop-down list of other versions of the same tiddler in different "spaces" (tiddlymanuals).
• Click on any item within this list that you want to compare to your own page.
• A new tab will immediately open in your browser, that shows both versions of the page you are comparing, side-by-side, with changes (deletions, additions, etc) highlighted in colours (the user interface of this comparing is due to improve in late 2012.)

Sub-topics

Tiddlers in a TiddlyManual are arranged in flexible hierarchies. Under "This topic contains these sub-topics:" you will find links to any tiddlers that are classified as "Sub-topics" of the tiddler you are looking at. For instance, if the tiddler you were looking at was titled "Birds" you might find as sub-topics "Sparrows", "Hawks", "Crows".

However, "Hawks" might itself have sub-topics, too. If you looked at its own "Show Related Information" menu these would show up ("Kestrels", Sparrowhawks", etc).

If you are Editing content, it is worth knowing that to produce Sub-topics of Tiddler "A" you would tag them with the title of the Topic ("A", in this case.) The same tiddler can thus be a Sub-topic, as well as being a Topic heading itself (with its own sub-topics.)

Topics

The heading "This topic is a sub-topic of:" shows you which other tiddlers are tagging this particular Tiddler - these are the 'Topic headlines' that this tiddler stands beneath.