I assume all of us who have been with Tiddlywiki for some time have tried to introduce someone else to this product and if you're like me, you've met with various levels of success. Everyone I've shown Tiddlywiki to has been very impressed with what I could do with it but, so far, only a couple have actually started using it on their own rather than using my wikis. So continuing with my line of questions about the New User Experience, I'd like to pose a few questions about what worked and what didn't work.
1. For those individuals who haven't adopted Tiddlywiki, what did the stumbling block appear to be? In my case there seemed to be a significant threshold to making the program do what they wanted it to do. I'm guessing that making Tiddlywiki do exactly what you want to do is an important step to actually using it full time. And perhaps more easily accessed examples of what can be done would help. My failure cases typically got hung up early on and gave up. Generally, in my cases, the failures never got to the documentation. 2. Were the individuals who adopted the program more tech-savvy users than those who didn't adopt the program? I tend to subdivide computer users into several classes: Users who use programs in the prescribed way and power-users who modify the programs in someway. A power-user will reset defaults and develop their own applications while a "user" does not. I have never gotten a "user" to adopt Tiddlywiki while all my successes have been with Power-Users. It may be that Tiddlywiki currently only really appeals to power-users. 3. If you could change one thing about Tiddlywiki, the program, the documentation, the environment, whatever, that would have made it easier to convince others to adopt the program, what would it be? Based on my failures, I think perhaps an improved editor interface. Many editors have a button for bold, underline, link, etc. Tiddlywiki doesn't have that but presents a virtually blank text box. Granted there is a link to a help file. If Danielo or someone could come up with a series of buttons that would invoke the keyboard snippets or the equivalent of Eric and his Quick-Edit environment, I think it might help. Again, I'm interested in hearing about Dave's experience with his students. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
