Hi Jonathan, You don't mention which browser you're using so I don't know if you've already tried Prism (http://prism.mozilla.com/)? In exchange for the loss of a few browser features, Prism gives me an enormous improvement in speed.
cmari On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan El-Bizri <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hello all, > > Like everyone here, my professional and personal life is now neatly > contained in the essential and wondrous jscript and html wrapping that > is monkeyGTD. > > And I live a very full life. Exceedingly so it, apparently, since now > that I've made mGTD essential, it's starting to verge on unusable. > I've tried all the basic tricks (turn off animations, empty the dead > tiddlers, etc, etc), but I need something more drastic: my morning > check in now takes over an hour, mainly because I’m waiting for stuff > to update. Quick add is now no longer usable – adding more than a few > items can take up to ten minutes to process. > > Tiddlywiki.org ( http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Performance_Issues ) > suggest turning off inefficient looping functions. To wit: > > "The problems reported by people with large TiddlyWikis are usually > performance based, and it seems that the solution (once you've > disabled animations..) is to remove macros that loop through every > tiddler, like the tabs in the sidebar. So it's not so much the size > that's the problem in a direct sense, but the fact that many TW macros > assume that looping through every tiddler isn't very slow." > > Well that's fine and dandy, but strikes me as a stop gap measure: it > might give me another megabyte of functionality (or so), but looking > over my back ups, I can expect to be creating at least a megabyte or > so of new >permanent< (ie tiddlers, reference items, etc) content by > the end of 2009. And as things get more and more complex, and we > capture more and more of our lives in this amazing tool, I can only > see performance being a greater and greater issue. > > I’m sure I’m not alone in needing a faster implementation of mGTD. > Suggestions? This hasn't been addressed to any satisfaction anywhere I > look. > > It’s high time for a project that takes mGTD from it’s flat file > roots, allows clean data migration, maintains the easy customization > of functionality (and where at all possible compatibility and > installation) while providing a few orders of magnitude faster > processing and rendering. > > Comments? I couldn’t organize my life without mGTD, so if this problem > hasn’t been solved already, I’m going to have to sit down and solve it > myself. Anyone want to help? (I'm f-ing hopeless, so if you want a > solution any time soon, you’ll have to pitch in. Ok, not quite > hopeless :>) > > Jonathan El-Bizri > Project Manager and Graduate Student in Psychology Research, San > Francisco State. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GTD-TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
