I'd add something about encouraging microcontent -- the benefit of TW tags
etc are magnified because tiddlers are not entire wiki page documents the
way a page of wikipedia content is an entire document.
;D
On 25 April 2014 17:09, Leo Staley leosta...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been thinking about this. It isn't a wiki software, it's something
else.
It's like a strange mix between a blog platform, a wiki platform,
evernote, and... I can't quite put my finger on it.
But here's what I think:
*First *it is a *data/information organizing software*. I would argue
that, at the user level, Tagging is the most revolutionary, unique,
valuable feature of Tiddlywiki, and it blows OneNote, Evernote, etc, out of
the water. People use it as novel writing software, or as Getting Things
Done and task management software, and so on, because those have lots of
information and lots of bits of information that need organizing. And, Even
though tagging functionality in other programs is cool and useful, because
of the way that Tiddlers are Tags and Tags are Tiddlers, the organizational
power Tiddlywiki has is phenomenal. This is why some of the most popular
plugins are those which make tagging easier and more intuitive and fluid.
One of the great values here is that there is very little limit on the
type of data or information one wants to organize. Anything you can put
into a tiddler, can be organized, and more.
*Second, *it is an* information viewing/navigating software*. Tiddlywiki
(plus the right plugins) empowers not only the act of organizing
data/information, *But also *viewing/Navigating it. Linking between
tiddlers with quick easy wikitext, displayed as a straightforward hyperlink
in view mode, is one of the great strengths tiddlywiki has over other note
taking software.
This is why plugins which facilitate organized display of tiddlers (and
page elements) are so popular. It's also why ForEachTiddler is so popular:
It helps tiddlers, which have been organized in such-and-such a way, be
displayed in this way or that. You can find information that you've placed
in the Tiddlywiki via numerous browsing methods, not just searches, like
other programs emphasize.
*Third, *It is a* document creation platform*. Tiddly wiki makes it so
easy to create new documents very quickly, without lots of extra visual
fluff, mouse-clicks for formatting, and other distractions, while offering
a decently robust set of actual formatting options. One can quickly make a
document, of various kinds, and as big or as small as one needs or wants,
and then organize it in relation to all of one's other documents. I want to
create a couple of dynamic lists for something I need to keep track of?
Tiddlywiki (plus the right plugins) can do it. I want to write a novel,
with one chapter per tiddler, linked together via tags, with other tiddlers
with notes supporting them? Tiddlywiki (plus the right plugins) can do it.
I want to write code? Tiddlywiki (plus the right plugins) can do it.
*Fourth *What it's not: Despite being displayed in a browser, it's* not
really a website creation software.* The inability of search engines to
effectively search in a Tiddlywiki is what makes this one so iron-clad. If
it IS a website creation software, it's terrible at it.
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