TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
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Re: TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
#2tl;dr
add tk when you hit a wall (abbreviated from 'to come', yet spelled with k as tc appears in many words)
Re: TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
#3I've a very dim memory of having heard about it years ago (more than a decades), from an article of Cory Doctorow, and in my mind, he was the one who came up with the idea (and chose the letters TK).
But I can be wrong (maybe it's not from Doctorow, maybe the article did not even claim the paternity of coming up with TK but it was me badly understanding it, ...)
Re: TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
#4I've a very dim memory of having heard about it years ago (more than a decades), from an article of Cory Doctorow, and in my mind, he was the one who came up with the idea (and chose the letters TK). But I can be wrong (maybe it's not from Doctorow, maybe the article did not even claim the paternity of coming up with TK but it was me badly understanding it, ...)
TK is a very standard term, see William Safire's usage in this 1996 NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/magazine/of-hacks-and-tk....
Re: TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
#5tl;dr add tk when you hit a wall (abbreviated from 'to come', yet spelled with k as tc appears in many words)
I slice my latke with a pocketknife.
Re: TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
#6I do this a lot but I use “TK:” with the colon to make it unambiguously grep-able (stands out better visually too)
Re: TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
#7I've a very dim memory of having heard about it years ago (more than a decades), from an article of Cory Doctorow, and in my mind, he was the one who came up with the idea (and chose the letters TK). But I can be wrong (maybe it's not from Doctorow, maybe the article did not even claim the paternity of coming up with TK but it was me badly understanding it, ...)
TK is a very standard term, see William Safire's usage in this 1996 NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/magazine/of-hacks-and-tk....
Mmm. This Q&A -- https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/M... -- suggests it's been kicking around as printing and journalism jargon since at least the 1980s, and I would expect probably earlier.
Re: TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
#8I've a very dim memory of having heard about it years ago (more than a decades), from an article of Cory Doctorow, and in my mind, he was the one who came up with the idea (and chose the letters TK). But I can be wrong (maybe it's not from Doctorow, maybe the article did not even claim the paternity of coming up with TK but it was me badly understanding it, ...)
TK is a very standard term, see William Safire's usage in this 1996 NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/magazine/of-hacks-and-tk....
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Re: TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
#9GCP employees heart rate spiking at the title.
Re: TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)
#10Could you instead use any two numerical digits? Then you've got a tagging system with up to 100 tags.
This assumes you're writing according to guidelines that insist you spell out all numbers. i.e. 58 is always intentionally "fifty-eight", so "58" must be your own meta text.