[tw5] Re: To structure or not to structure? Depends, eh?

2021-10-04 Thread Charlie Veniot
Pff, it is stuff that has been swirling and expanding in my head since the early 90's and I still can't coherently spell it out. You've got it down to an art-form from my perspective. I am frigging envious. On Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 12:17:08 AM UTC-3 TW Tones wrote: > Thanks Charlie, >

[tw5] Re: To structure or not to structure? Depends, eh?

2021-10-04 Thread TW Tones
Thanks Charlie, But thanks to your inspiration for raising the the "conceptual issue", in a way it allowed me to state my thinking on the subject. Ideas, I feel I have failed to express so far. Tones On Tuesday, 5 October 2021 at 13:50:57 UTC+11 cj.v...@gmail.com wrote: > Crap. Forgot to

[tw5] Re: To structure or not to structure? Depends, eh?

2021-10-04 Thread Charlie Veniot
Anybody interested in this kind of stuff, I am influenced by (re software development, database development, and "intertwingularity mapping"): - *Scott Ambler*. - Scott Ambler's

[tw5] Re: To structure or not to structure? Depends, eh?

2021-10-04 Thread Charlie Veniot
Crap. Forgot to say: your post is a damned fine contribution to the knowledge base. On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 9:13:29 PM UTC-3 TW Tones wrote: > Charlie, > > There is in fact a middle way between structured and unstructured. An > example would be if you were building a contact database

[tw5] Re: To structure or not to structure? Depends, eh?

2021-10-04 Thread Charlie Veniot
Well, yeah. I live in the gray. Everything you're talking about, that was the whole point of this little project I had in mind: pit the two extremes against each other, and then drop in everything in between. It is what I hope my (subsequently posted) "Collaborative Recipes TiddlyWiki

[tw5] Re: To structure or not to structure? Depends, eh?

2021-10-04 Thread TW Tones
Charlie, There is in fact a middle way between structured and unstructured. An example would be if you were building a contact database and when it came to meeting extended family at holiday times and asked them for their phone number, you also noted down their parents names. You could even