Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2014-02-12 Thread Philipp G
Hi Jeremy,
 
thanks for that. That would still fit my timeplans.
 
Thanks again.
 
Best wishes,
Philipp
 

On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:21:08 PM UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote:

 Hi Philipp

 I will start a new thread, do you know when TW5 is supposed to leave Beta?


 Hopefully in the first half of 2014

 Best wishes

 Jeremy

  


 Best wishes,
 Philipp


 On Monday, February 10, 2014 2:07:36 PM UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote:

 Hi Philipp

 Now, I am determined to use it for my dissertation. Not to gather my 
 notes, etc. but actually presenting my thesis in a html file rather than 
 printing and binding a script. The main reason is that I would like 
 someone 
 to read the argument as I structured it AND to be able to explore the 
 topic 
 of my PhD in the order they find makes most sense. 
 I thought I could arrange tiddlers as I would have sections in a linear 
 form in a word file but ALSO use hyperlinks, tags, different indexes etc, 
 for people to find their way around the information themselves.
  

 Makes sense. It should be possible to produce a TiddlyWiki for 
 interactive access while also generating an ordinary, linear HTML document 
 consisting of those same tiddlers threaded together into a logical 
 ordering. That way you could have your cake and eat it -- you'd be 
 sidestepping concerns about the non-linearity of TW.
  

 I started the process of getting my supervisors and the University to 
 see the benefits of this idea and hope that they will agree for me to be 
 able to do this. The current problem I face is that they struggle to get 
 their head around how this would look in the end. 


 As I say, if they're struggling with TW as the medium for delivery, 
 perhaps you can establish common ground by giving them a traditional 
 hierarchical document.
  

 Would anyone be able to suggest TWs that can illustrate what I am 
 trying to do? Is anyone aware of this having been done before? 


 It may also be worth asking this question in the Google group for 
 TiddlySpace, which enjoys a fair amount of academic use.
  

 Anything that you think could help me to illustrate the power of TW 
 compared to linear presentations in word files would be beneficial as well.


 I'll put this topic on the list for tomorrows' TiddlyWiki Hangout #34. 
 It would be instructive to work through some ways of achieving what you 
 want with TW5.

  P.S. I have (and will have) loads more questions, where shall I ask 
 these? (e.g. will TW cope with stuff that is usually a 150 page document?) 
 Shall I continue in here or should I start a new thread. I am not familiar 
 with the code of practice in this community.

 It's usually better to start a new topic with a subject line that will 
 be helpful to other readers.

 Best wishes

 Jeremy

  Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,

  Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
 location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
 using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
 documents really don't connect very well.

 I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
 references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
 down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?

 thanks,

 Neil

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2014-02-11 Thread Philipp G
Hi Jeremy,

thanks for that response. What you say makes sense to me. 
Through linear and non-linear options I am trying to find a compromise. The 
issue is that usually (old school) examiners would look at a print out and 
dislike reading such a long work on a computer screen.

I will start a new thread, do you know when TW5 is supposed to leave Beta?

Best wishes,
Philipp


On Monday, February 10, 2014 2:07:36 PM UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote:

 Hi Philipp

 Now, I am determined to use it for my dissertation. Not to gather my 
 notes, etc. but actually presenting my thesis in a html file rather than 
 printing and binding a script. The main reason is that I would like someone 
 to read the argument as I structured it AND to be able to explore the topic 
 of my PhD in the order they find makes most sense. 
 I thought I could arrange tiddlers as I would have sections in a linear 
 form in a word file but ALSO use hyperlinks, tags, different indexes etc, 
 for people to find their way around the information themselves.


 Makes sense. It should be possible to produce a TiddlyWiki for interactive 
 access while also generating an ordinary, linear HTML document consisting 
 of those same tiddlers threaded together into a logical ordering. That way 
 you could have your cake and eat it -- you'd be sidestepping concerns about 
 the non-linearity of TW.
  

 I started the process of getting my supervisors and the University to see 
 the benefits of this idea and hope that they will agree for me to be able 
 to do this. The current problem I face is that they struggle to get their 
 head around how this would look in the end. 


 As I say, if they're struggling with TW as the medium for delivery, 
 perhaps you can establish common ground by giving them a traditional 
 hierarchical document.
  

 Would anyone be able to suggest TWs that can illustrate what I am trying 
 to do? Is anyone aware of this having been done before? 


 It may also be worth asking this question in the Google group for 
 TiddlySpace, which enjoys a fair amount of academic use.
  

 Anything that you think could help me to illustrate the power of TW 
 compared to linear presentations in word files would be beneficial as well.


 I'll put this topic on the list for tomorrows' TiddlyWiki Hangout #34. It 
 would be instructive to work through some ways of achieving what you want 
 with TW5.

  P.S. I have (and will have) loads more questions, where shall I ask 
 these? (e.g. will TW cope with stuff that is usually a 150 page document?) 
 Shall I continue in here or should I start a new thread. I am not familiar 
 with the code of practice in this community.

 It's usually better to start a new topic with a subject line that will be 
 helpful to other readers.

 Best wishes

 Jeremy

  Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,

 Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
 location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
 using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
 documents really don't connect very well.

 I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
 references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
 down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?

 thanks,

 Neil

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2014-02-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Philipp

I will start a new thread, do you know when TW5 is supposed to leave Beta?


Hopefully in the first half of 2014

Best wishes

Jeremy




 Best wishes,
 Philipp


 On Monday, February 10, 2014 2:07:36 PM UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote:

 Hi Philipp

 Now, I am determined to use it for my dissertation. Not to gather my
 notes, etc. but actually presenting my thesis in a html file rather than
 printing and binding a script. The main reason is that I would like someone
 to read the argument as I structured it AND to be able to explore the topic
 of my PhD in the order they find makes most sense.
 I thought I could arrange tiddlers as I would have sections in a linear
 form in a word file but ALSO use hyperlinks, tags, different indexes etc,
 for people to find their way around the information themselves.


 Makes sense. It should be possible to produce a TiddlyWiki for
 interactive access while also generating an ordinary, linear HTML document
 consisting of those same tiddlers threaded together into a logical
 ordering. That way you could have your cake and eat it -- you'd be
 sidestepping concerns about the non-linearity of TW.


 I started the process of getting my supervisors and the University to
 see the benefits of this idea and hope that they will agree for me to be
 able to do this. The current problem I face is that they struggle to get
 their head around how this would look in the end.


 As I say, if they're struggling with TW as the medium for delivery,
 perhaps you can establish common ground by giving them a traditional
 hierarchical document.


 Would anyone be able to suggest TWs that can illustrate what I am trying
 to do? Is anyone aware of this having been done before?


 It may also be worth asking this question in the Google group for
 TiddlySpace, which enjoys a fair amount of academic use.


 Anything that you think could help me to illustrate the power of TW
 compared to linear presentations in word files would be beneficial as well.


 I'll put this topic on the list for tomorrows' TiddlyWiki Hangout #34. It
 would be instructive to work through some ways of achieving what you want
 with TW5.

  P.S. I have (and will have) loads more questions, where shall I ask
 these? (e.g. will TW cope with stuff that is usually a 150 page document?)
 Shall I continue in here or should I start a new thread. I am not familiar
 with the code of practice in this community.

 It's usually better to start a new topic with a subject line that will be
 helpful to other readers.

 Best wishes

 Jeremy

  Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,

 Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
 location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
 using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
 documents really don't connect very well.

 I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
 references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
 down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?

 thanks,

 Neil

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2014-02-10 Thread Philipp G
Hello all,

I have been reading these conversations with great interest.

I have considered using TiddlyWiki for all sorts of things over the last 3 
years since I saw someone using it in a presentation instead of ppt. 
However, I have never actually used it for a project.

Now, I am determined to use it for my dissertation. Not to gather my notes, 
etc. but actually presenting my thesis in a html file rather than printing 
and binding a script. The main reason is that I would like someone to read 
the argument as I structured it AND to be able to explore the topic of my 
PhD in the order they find makes most sense. 
I thought I could arrange tiddlers as I would have sections in a linear 
form in a word file but ALSO use hyperlinks, tags, different indexes etc, 
for people to find their way around the information themselves.

I started the process of getting my supervisors and the University to see 
the benefits of this idea and hope that they will agree for me to be able 
to do this. The current problem I face is that they struggle to get their 
head around how this would look in the end. 
Would anyone be able to suggest TWs that can illustrate what I am trying to 
do? Is anyone aware of this having been done before? 
Anything that you think could help me to illustrate the power of TW 
compared to linear presentations in word files would be beneficial as well.

Thanks a lot in advance. 
Best wishes,
Philipp

P.S. I have (and will have) loads more questions, where shall I ask these? 
(e.g. will TW cope with stuff that is usually a 150 page document?) Shall I 
continue in here or should I start a new thread. I am not familiar with the 
code of practice in this community.

On Monday, December 28, 2009 5:56:57 PM UTC, Neil wrote:

 Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,

 Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
 location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
 using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
 documents really don't connect very well.

 I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
 references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
 down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?

 thanks,

 Neil



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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2014-02-10 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Philipp

Now, I am determined to use it for my dissertation. Not to gather my notes,
 etc. but actually presenting my thesis in a html file rather than printing
 and binding a script. The main reason is that I would like someone to read
 the argument as I structured it AND to be able to explore the topic of my
 PhD in the order they find makes most sense.
 I thought I could arrange tiddlers as I would have sections in a linear
 form in a word file but ALSO use hyperlinks, tags, different indexes etc,
 for people to find their way around the information themselves.


Makes sense. It should be possible to produce a TiddlyWiki for interactive
access while also generating an ordinary, linear HTML document consisting
of those same tiddlers threaded together into a logical ordering. That way
you could have your cake and eat it -- you'd be sidestepping concerns about
the non-linearity of TW.


 I started the process of getting my supervisors and the University to see
 the benefits of this idea and hope that they will agree for me to be able
 to do this. The current problem I face is that they struggle to get their
 head around how this would look in the end.


As I say, if they're struggling with TW as the medium for delivery, perhaps
you can establish common ground by giving them a traditional hierarchical
document.


 Would anyone be able to suggest TWs that can illustrate what I am trying
 to do? Is anyone aware of this having been done before?


It may also be worth asking this question in the Google group for
TiddlySpace, which enjoys a fair amount of academic use.


 Anything that you think could help me to illustrate the power of TW
 compared to linear presentations in word files would be beneficial as well.


I'll put this topic on the list for tomorrows' TiddlyWiki Hangout #34. It
would be instructive to work through some ways of achieving what you want
with TW5.

 P.S. I have (and will have) loads more questions, where shall I ask
these? (e.g. will TW cope with stuff that is usually a 150 page document?)
Shall I continue in here or should I start a new thread. I am not familiar
with the code of practice in this community.

It's usually better to start a new topic with a subject line that will be
helpful to other readers.

Best wishes

Jeremy

 Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,

 Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
 location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
 using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
 documents really don't connect very well.

 I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
 references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
 down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?

 thanks,

 Neil

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Hough
bias against wikipedia is valid. Constructed hypertexts are not citable - a
good rule.

Alex


2010/1/4 iain i...@jcis.net.au

 I think Shavinder the issue is more about being able to check sources
 rather than the web itself (although there is a  considerable amount
 of bias against Wikipedia in academic circles).






 The ever shifting, changing, nature of web sources makes it difficult
 to verify that what was seen on a web page is in fact correct. With
 documents you can in fact go back to the originals and check.
 Amazingly you often find that there have been mistakes made or in some
 cases that the document in question does not exist (e.g. it is
 surprising how many historians cannot read a map).

 However in my case WEB 2.0 allows me to access on-line content which
 is often old documents, photographs, maps, newspapers...etc. which
 expands my research because often in the pre web times it would be
 difficult to access all the sources. You can of course take
 snapshots of web pages as a record of what they were when you read
 them.

 As an Australian my attitude towards my supervisors was one of healthy
 scepticism until they proved their worth but I am aware that Americans
 for example seem to treat their supervisors with awe.

 Regards

 Iain

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-05 Thread Tobias Beer
Bias against proprietary, commercial, patenting interests is just as
valid... keeping in mind that much in science is ever more focussing
on commercial development of technologies (which today reads as: for
ones individual profit), rather than doing unbiased research.

Unlike most trusted, peer-reviewed sources, wikipedia allows for
PUBLIC revision and revision history, even linked to user profiles. I
consider this the number one reason for why it has become and is
becoming a source that is just as trustable as any publication that
comes along with an ISBN number, which - on average - is quite likely
driven by special interests to a much larger degree ...rather than
being the outcome of - on average - balanced and moderated editing
processes ...and discussions or arguments that go along with them.

Would I use wikipedia for scientific publications today? Surely not.
But that is more due to its still quite limited content on one hand
and (therefore) a lack of acceptance in the scientific establishment
on the other ...rather than the model on which Wikipedia is built.

In that respect... I, for one, demand for scientific research and
results to be public and open ...otherwise they're to be rejected, as
their main focus clearly is not on scientific progress, which - above
all - embraces the ability to deal with scepticism, rebuttal and
revision in a appropriate ways... which todays peer review process
does not seem to provide for in acceptable ways.

However, what I find to be fundamentally missing in Wikipedia (or its
interrelation to the rest of the web) is a demand for accessibility
to the kind of independent (arte)facts or samples of experience on
which the whole body of knowledge is built... e.g. all sorts of data
samples. Wikipedia too much constructs around results considered
trustworthy, merely due to them being published... while not - or at
best insufficiently - providing access to the data and methods from
which those results were derived.

Tobias.


On Jan 5, 12:33 pm, Alex Hough r.a.ho...@googlemail.com wrote:
 bias against wikipedia is valid. Constructed hypertexts are not citable - a
 good rule.

 Alex

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Olonoff
All,

I tend to agree with Tobias, in the following sense.

Content in Wikipedia represents a valid discourse, whether or not it is
always accurate. As long as the scholar makes appropriate attribution, the
reader can always consider the source.

The reality is, no source is unimpeachable and free of point of view. To
espouse any kind of knowledge also claims membership in a thought-community,
with its attendant biases and viewpoints.

Now, if a given thought community -- by it's own internal norms -- decides
that Wikipedia, or another source, is unacceptable, that is their
prerogative, I suppose. But there are certainly fields of study within which
Wikipedia, is an acceptable source. So, for example, might be the posts of
participants in a listserv like this one, as examples of popular discourse
on the use of wikis.

It's all in the point of view.

Regards,

Neil

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Tobias Beer beertob...@googlemail.comwrote:

 Bias against proprietary, commercial, patenting interests is just as
 valid... keeping in mind that much in science is ever more focussing
 on commercial development of technologies (which today reads as: for
 ones individual profit), rather than doing unbiased research.

 Unlike most trusted, peer-reviewed sources, wikipedia allows for
 PUBLIC revision and revision history, even linked to user profiles. I
 consider this the number one reason for why it has become and is
 becoming a source that is just as trustable as any publication that
 comes along with an ISBN number, which - on average - is quite likely
 driven by special interests to a much larger degree ...rather than
 being the outcome of - on average - balanced and moderated editing
 processes ...and discussions or arguments that go along with them.

 Would I use wikipedia for scientific publications today? Surely not.
 But that is more due to its still quite limited content on one hand
 and (therefore) a lack of acceptance in the scientific establishment
 on the other ...rather than the model on which Wikipedia is built.

 In that respect... I, for one, demand for scientific research and
 results to be public and open ...otherwise they're to be rejected, as
 their main focus clearly is not on scientific progress, which - above
 all - embraces the ability to deal with scepticism, rebuttal and
 revision in a appropriate ways... which todays peer review process
 does not seem to provide for in acceptable ways.

 However, what I find to be fundamentally missing in Wikipedia (or its
 interrelation to the rest of the web) is a demand for accessibility
 to the kind of independent (arte)facts or samples of experience on
 which the whole body of knowledge is built... e.g. all sorts of data
 samples. Wikipedia too much constructs around results considered
 trustworthy, merely due to them being published... while not - or at
 best insufficiently - providing access to the data and methods from
 which those results were derived.

 Tobias.


 On Jan 5, 12:33 pm, Alex Hough r.a.ho...@googlemail.com wrote:
  bias against wikipedia is valid. Constructed hypertexts are not citable -
 a
  good rule.
 
  Alex

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-04 Thread iain
Eric,

you forgot the best bit - the portability of the Kaypro. I can recall
carrying one (plus a generator which was carried by an assistant) up a
hill with a middle Bronze age fortification overlooking the Euphrates
River so we could input survey measurements directly from our
theodolite (i.e. the surveyor shouted them to us).

The Kaypro was described a luggable it was something like 15kg and its
boxy shape made it a bit difficult to carry but its metal case meant
it was fairly indestructible (we has several goes at destroying it).

Iain


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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-04 Thread iain
I think Shavinder the issue is more about being able to check sources
rather than the web itself (although there is a  considerable amount
of bias against Wikipedia in academic circles).

The ever shifting, changing, nature of web sources makes it difficult
to verify that what was seen on a web page is in fact correct. With
documents you can in fact go back to the originals and check.
Amazingly you often find that there have been mistakes made or in some
cases that the document in question does not exist (e.g. it is
surprising how many historians cannot read a map).

However in my case WEB 2.0 allows me to access on-line content which
is often old documents, photographs, maps, newspapers...etc. which
expands my research because often in the pre web times it would be
difficult to access all the sources. You can of course take
snapshots of web pages as a record of what they were when you read
them.

As an Australian my attitude towards my supervisors was one of healthy
scepticism until they proved their worth but I am aware that Americans
for example seem to treat their supervisors with awe.

Regards

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-04 Thread David

 As an Australian my attitude towards my supervisors was one of healthy
 scepticism until they proved their worth but I am aware that Americans
 for example seem to treat their supervisors with awe.

 Regards

 Iain

Iain ... if you only knew what a pain in the --- I am for my advisor
and other profs! =) Because I am pursuing this doc at an older age
(I'll be 54 this week), I really don't waste any time with what Neil
Postman so brilliantly called bulls---. They really don't know quite
what to do with me (nor do most of my fellow students). I give them
the respect they deserve, but I am very quick to challenge on issues
in the discipline. I'm not planning to go the prof route myself (it's
a tad late to start looking for tenure!), so I call them like I see
them (mostly). I'm not sure this has been the best strategy ...
LOL ... and it may come back to bite me, but I really have been around
the block far too many times to play their silly little games.

But I love my advisor -- she's probably the only reason I'm still
there. She has been trying to adopt a lot of new technology in her
teaching practice, and she has been tasked with taking most of her
program online, so she's no Luddite. But I know that she's really
talking to the younger crowd of students when she calls web research
lazy, and it's probably appropriate for many of them who seem to
think collaborative editing in wikipedia qualifies as peer
review. :-)

Shavinder, your suggestion of a research project on TW is an excellent
one. I'm going to have to give that some thought.

Thanks to all for letting me wander so far off topic. Since I've
already apparently caused at least one subscriber to scream for help
to unsibuscribe, I'll try to keep it focused.

David

P.S.: If anyone knows of any good resources that describe methods for
doing qualitative research online (such as various forms on online
interviewing methods), send me a private email about it.

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-03 Thread Neil Olonoff
Compaq Deskpro, with the enhanced (40 MB) hard drive and 2  5-1/4 inch
floppy drives. Oh, and WordPerfect rules!

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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:


 On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:52 PM, iain wrote:

  ...Wordstar on a Kaypro luggable machine running CP/M


 Ah! my first system! $2000 for 64K of RAM and two 360K floppy drives.
 State of the art.

 I loved Wordstar. Your hand never had to leave the keyboard.


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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-03 Thread Morris Gray
On Dec 29 2009, 2:36 pm, shavinder shavinderpalsi...@gmail.com
wrote:
 In the differential geometry site 
 herehttp://deferentialgeometry.org/#[[Clifford%20matrix%20representation]]
 how has the author done up all that equations? Its not TW wiki markup
 I am sure. Is it some special plugin?
 for example what is this?::

It is Latex.  You can do this easily in a TiddlyWiki. Look at my
http://twmath.tiddlyspot.com/

Morris Gray

On Dec 29 2009, 2:36 pm, shavinder shavinderpalsi...@gmail.com
wrote:
 In the differential geometry site 
 herehttp://deferentialgeometry.org/#[[Clifford%20matrix%20representation]]
 how has the author done up all that equations? Its not TW wiki markup
 I am sure. Is it some special plugin?
 for example what is this?::

 $$
 \begin{array}{cc}
 \si_1 = \sigma_{1}^{P} =
 \left[\begin{array}{cc}
 0  1\\
 1  0
 \end{array}\right]
 
 \si_2 = \sigma_{2}^{P}=\left[\begin{array}{cc}
 0  -i\\
 i  0\end{array}\right]
 \end{array}
 $$

 On Dec 28, 11:20 pm, Mark S. throa...@yahoo.com wrote:

  These example sites seem to work around the edges of what you want:

   http://www.pacifica.edu/lib/theses.html
   http://deferentialgeometry.org/
   http://imp.peermore.com/imp/recipes/imp/tiddlers.wiki

  I don't know how you searched this group, but the search engine is
  basically broke. The method I use is to search on google with site-
  specific search:

    thesis site:http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki

  I used 'thesis', but I'm sure other terms will come to mind.

  HTH
  Mark

  On Dec 28, 9:56 am, Neil olon...@gmail.com wrote:

   Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,

   Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
   location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
   using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
   documents really don't connect very well.

   I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
   references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
   down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?

   thanks,

   Neil

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-02 Thread Eric Weir

On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:52 PM, iain wrote:

 ...Wordstar on a Kaypro luggable machine running CP/M


Ah! my first system! $2000 for 64K of RAM and two 360K floppy drives.  
State of the art.

I loved Wordstar. Your hand never had to leave the keyboard.

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2010-01-02 Thread shavinder
Using online resources should not be seen lazy at all. I can
understand what the advisor actually means though. This happened with
me too. I prepared a proposal for research whose bibliography included
a lot of online sources. I assumed that it was enough for the primary
stage of the proposal. But the panel while rejecting my proposal used
this point in arguments, that I had not visited other university
libraries and had not consulted the actual hard bound researches
enough!

The Professors think is that internet makes it too easy for the new
generation and when they compare it to their times they dont like this
too much. They feel that effort being 'too easy' would make us less
worthy of the reward. (They may have a point but I am not sure)

Based upon my experience I feel that the professors are not fully
acquainted with what one might term 'web2.0 research'

A tiddlywiki is quite an appropriate candidate for a 'WEB2.0
Research'. In fact I pray that somebody who has already completed his
research and is willing to share his TW or some portion of it as an
example, take up this term 'WEB2.0 Research' and write an article on
this along with his sample tiddlywiki. This article would go a long
way in helping the professors form a favourable opinion about systems
such as Tiddlywiki.

I would also wish that in that article one should give a due attention
to the programming and designing aspects of creating a tiddlywiki
document so as to inform the reader that what he sees on screen and
all the buttons and their wonderful effects have taken some good
effort in the background.

Regarding 'multimedia dissertation' I would say the term multimedia is
so overused in education circles as none other. And i dare say that MS
Powerpoint paradigm is proving to be a major obstacle in changing
professors' attitude towards computers and their use in education.
What they usually want is audio and video chunks along with text on
slides.

But in the end I would say it is as important to please your advisor
as much as doing a good research. So think up of some innovative ways
to 'package' your research for impressing the audience. Use impressive
layout and colors for your tw when you submit it to your department. I
know what I say may be taken to be unethical advice but I believe its
better to do hard work and get a positive result than a negative one.

all the best
-shavinder

On Jan 1, 2:28 am, David davidconne...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Dec 31, 9:31 am, rnio...@gmail.com rnio...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi All
  I wrote my dissertation in Wordperfect... both times since a virus
  wiped it out the first time :(

 I nearly cried about a month ago when transferring participant
 interviews from my digital recorder to my laptop and one of them
 just ... vanished. I don't think I've lost a data file in 15 years. I
 don't know why it didn't make it to the laptop, but my error was
 erasing the digital recorder before I checked the files. I'm now
 considering how best to create two recordings during interviews, just
 in case.

 My other disappointment this semester was hearing my faculty advisor
 say to our class that a dissertation that included references that
 only came from online sources (meaning online scholarly databases, and
 as opposed to the dusty bound volumes on the fourth floor of the
 library) would be considered lazy. She's been very supportive of my
 ideas so far and has been stretching herself to use more new media in
 her online classes, so the lazy comment surprised me.

 As for workflow, I've gotten TW a step closer to the ease of
 Journler's drop box. I've created a folder on my desktop called
 TiddlyWiki Drop Box, which is now where I save PDFs and other files
 for research. I decided that a direct link to the file would be less
 useful because it includes the full path name, so my first step for my
 new files is to create aliases for all of them. I then move the
 original files to my Journler drop box so they will be indexed there
 as well, and the alias follows the file to its new location. That
 leaves only aliases in my TW drop folder. I do all my work on my
 laptop at home or on the campus, so TW and the files are always
 together. Then using the FileDropPlugin, I drop the aliases on a TW
 open in Firefox, and tiddlers are created for each automatically. I
 have them automatically tagged with Research and New so that I can
 easily pull them out of TW. I've changed the settings for
 FileDropPlugin so that the link is displayed in the tiddler. I open my
 tiddlers tagged New, click on the link, and the PDF opens in Preview.
 So far I've been manually copying the citation, abstract, and
 references to the tiddler, and then Skim through the PDF for any key
 points, which I also copy to the tiddler, or summarize. Tags are
 starting to be an interesting way to link authors across multiple
 works and to all the works that cite them. I'm tempted to try using
 the author's last name and year of publication as a wikiword and 

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-31 Thread rnio...@gmail.com
Hi All
I wrote my dissertation in Wordperfect... both times since a virus
wiped it out the first time :(

I use TW now for organizing my classes - tiddlers tagged Week01,
Week 02... display other tiddlers tagged Week01 LectureNotes,
Week01 HandOuts, Week01 ReqReadings... This way, I can see each
week's materials by looking at that week's tiddler, or use
ForEachTiddler statements to see all readings, handouts, or lecture
notes in one place...  I put my notes in tiddlers so I can also search
for specific terms and find which lecture included them, or cross link
things like definitions of a term to any place I use it.

I think this would translate to dissertations easily.
1) Create tiddlers tagged for the dissertation sections (Abstract
Chapter01, Methodology etc...) and have them display other
tiddlers tagged Chapter01 MyTasks Chapter01 ToRead, and Chapter01
UsedRefs followed by your writing for that chapter (in a tiddler is
possible... but that may be taking it too far... or a link to the doc
file you are writing it in).  Keep in mind that the tiddler titles
could be whatever you wanted them to be, and so could be more
descriptive... but naming them to match these tags would make it
easier to use templates and pass $1 and $2 variables...

2) MyTasks could be
either a bullet list of next actions in GTD terms for that chapter,
like get an article, talk to your chair about something, email a
researcher somewhere with a question...
or a ForEachTiddler 'ed list of anything tagged Chapter01 MyTasks,
meaning a tiddler for each task, which would give you a place to put
notes about the conversation with your chair or a place to include a
copy of the email exchange with the other researcher...
or both - a short list of one step tasks followed by the
ForEachTiddler statement for only the things that needed notes...

Keep in mind you could add a Done tag to tasks after they were done,
as well as add a Pending tag to tasks needing later follow up
action.  You would then use three ForEachTiddler statments
--one to show all tiddlers tagged MyTasks but NOT Pending and NOT Done
to see current actions
--one to show all tiddlers tagged MyTasks AND Pending and NOT Done to
show those needing follow up or reminding
--one to show all tiddlers tagged MyTasks AND Pending AND Done to show
your notes on tasks

3) ToRead could list articles and chapters to read,
either as a single tiddler that just had a bullet point list
or as a tiddler with a ForEachTidder statement that showed every
tiddler tagged Chapter01 ToRead MyNotes.  The tiddlers tagged this
way would have the properly formed reference (without any hard returns
in it) as the first line, a blank line or two, and then your notes
below... you could add a link to the pdf for the resource too. These
tiddlers should be named Lastname - Whatever where Lastname is the
author's last name and Whatever is your description of the resource.

4) Once you decided to use an article or chapter in your dissertation,
change the tags for the tiddler for that resource to Chapter01
UsedRefs.  The ForEachTiddler documentation has an example of how to
list all tiddlers tagged a certain way, and return the first line of
text from the tiddler.  At the end of your Chapter01 tiddler... or
in a References tiddler... include a ForEachTiddler statement that
returns the first line of everything tagged Chapter01 UsedRefs... or
just everything tagged UsedRefs... and since they are named with the
author's last name as the first word in the title, an alphabetical
sort (the default) would give you an alphabetical reference list. You
could tinker with the code and have it display the first line as a
clickable link to the tiddler for that resource, or display something
like [[.|tiddlertitle]] at the end of the reference, and so the
reference would not be clickable, but the final period at the end of
it would take you to that reference's tiddler to see your notes and a
link to it...

Attaching links to documents likely means keeping a local copy of the
TW on your flashdrive, but everything else could be done on tiddlyspot
for example, and you could access your work anywhere you had an
internet connection... and keep a local backup just in case... did I
mention a virus wiped out my dissertation?

Just some ideas...
Richard

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-31 Thread Neil
Hi, Richard,

Great tips!

I'm still digesting your tips for structuring Tiddlers. They seem very
well thought out. Do you have any comments on your work process? How
do you manage references? How do you manage connections to PDFs or
other reference documents? How do you export from TiddlyWiki for final
printing /publication?

Thanks,

Neil

On Dec 31, 10:31 am, rnio...@gmail.com rnio...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All
 I wrote my dissertation in Wordperfect... both times since a virus
 wiped it out the first time :(

 I use TW now for organizing my classes - tiddlers tagged Week01,
 Week 02... display other tiddlers tagged Week01 LectureNotes,
 Week01 HandOuts, Week01 ReqReadings... This way, I can see each
 week's materials by looking at that week's tiddler, or use
 ForEachTiddler statements to see all readings, handouts, or lecture
 notes in one place...  I put my notes in tiddlers so I can also search
 for specific terms and find which lecture included them, or cross link
 things like definitions of a term to any place I use it.

 I think this would translate to dissertations easily.
 1) Create tiddlers tagged for the dissertation sections (Abstract
 Chapter01, Methodology etc...) and have them display other
 tiddlers tagged Chapter01 MyTasks Chapter01 ToRead, and Chapter01
 UsedRefs followed by your writing for that chapter (in a tiddler is
 possible... but that may be taking it too far... or a link to the doc
 file you are writing it in).  Keep in mind that the tiddler titles
 could be whatever you wanted them to be, and so could be more
 descriptive... but naming them to match these tags would make it
 easier to use templates and pass $1 and $2 variables...

 2) MyTasks could be
 either a bullet list of next actions in GTD terms for that chapter,
 like get an article, talk to your chair about something, email a
 researcher somewhere with a question...
 or a ForEachTiddler 'ed list of anything tagged Chapter01 MyTasks,
 meaning a tiddler for each task, which would give you a place to put
 notes about the conversation with your chair or a place to include a
 copy of the email exchange with the other researcher...
 or both - a short list of one step tasks followed by the
 ForEachTiddler statement for only the things that needed notes...

 Keep in mind you could add a Done tag to tasks after they were done,
 as well as add a Pending tag to tasks needing later follow up
 action.  You would then use three ForEachTiddler statments
 --one to show all tiddlers tagged MyTasks but NOT Pending and NOT Done
 to see current actions
 --one to show all tiddlers tagged MyTasks AND Pending and NOT Done to
 show those needing follow up or reminding
 --one to show all tiddlers tagged MyTasks AND Pending AND Done to show
 your notes on tasks

 3) ToRead could list articles and chapters to read,
 either as a single tiddler that just had a bullet point list
 or as a tiddler with a ForEachTidder statement that showed every
 tiddler tagged Chapter01 ToRead MyNotes.  The tiddlers tagged this
 way would have the properly formed reference (without any hard returns
 in it) as the first line, a blank line or two, and then your notes
 below... you could add a link to the pdf for the resource too. These
 tiddlers should be named Lastname - Whatever where Lastname is the
 author's last name and Whatever is your description of the resource.

 4) Once you decided to use an article or chapter in your dissertation,
 change the tags for the tiddler for that resource to Chapter01
 UsedRefs.  The ForEachTiddler documentation has an example of how to
 list all tiddlers tagged a certain way, and return the first line of
 text from the tiddler.  At the end of your Chapter01 tiddler... or
 in a References tiddler... include a ForEachTiddler statement that
 returns the first line of everything tagged Chapter01 UsedRefs... or
 just everything tagged UsedRefs... and since they are named with the
 author's last name as the first word in the title, an alphabetical
 sort (the default) would give you an alphabetical reference list. You
 could tinker with the code and have it display the first line as a
 clickable link to the tiddler for that resource, or display something
 like [[.|tiddlertitle]] at the end of the reference, and so the
 reference would not be clickable, but the final period at the end of
 it would take you to that reference's tiddler to see your notes and a
 link to it...

 Attaching links to documents likely means keeping a local copy of the
 TW on your flashdrive, but everything else could be done on tiddlyspot
 for example, and you could access your work anywhere you had an
 internet connection... and keep a local backup just in case... did I
 mention a virus wiped out my dissertation?

 Just some ideas...
 Richard

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-31 Thread David
On Dec 31, 9:31 am, rnio...@gmail.com rnio...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All
 I wrote my dissertation in Wordperfect... both times since a virus
 wiped it out the first time :(

I nearly cried about a month ago when transferring participant
interviews from my digital recorder to my laptop and one of them
just ... vanished. I don't think I've lost a data file in 15 years. I
don't know why it didn't make it to the laptop, but my error was
erasing the digital recorder before I checked the files. I'm now
considering how best to create two recordings during interviews, just
in case.

My other disappointment this semester was hearing my faculty advisor
say to our class that a dissertation that included references that
only came from online sources (meaning online scholarly databases, and
as opposed to the dusty bound volumes on the fourth floor of the
library) would be considered lazy. She's been very supportive of my
ideas so far and has been stretching herself to use more new media in
her online classes, so the lazy comment surprised me.

As for workflow, I've gotten TW a step closer to the ease of
Journler's drop box. I've created a folder on my desktop called
TiddlyWiki Drop Box, which is now where I save PDFs and other files
for research. I decided that a direct link to the file would be less
useful because it includes the full path name, so my first step for my
new files is to create aliases for all of them. I then move the
original files to my Journler drop box so they will be indexed there
as well, and the alias follows the file to its new location. That
leaves only aliases in my TW drop folder. I do all my work on my
laptop at home or on the campus, so TW and the files are always
together. Then using the FileDropPlugin, I drop the aliases on a TW
open in Firefox, and tiddlers are created for each automatically. I
have them automatically tagged with Research and New so that I can
easily pull them out of TW. I've changed the settings for
FileDropPlugin so that the link is displayed in the tiddler. I open my
tiddlers tagged New, click on the link, and the PDF opens in Preview.
So far I've been manually copying the citation, abstract, and
references to the tiddler, and then Skim through the PDF for any key
points, which I also copy to the tiddler, or summarize. Tags are
starting to be an interesting way to link authors across multiple
works and to all the works that cite them. I'm tempted to try using
the author's last name and year of publication as a wikiword and let
TW create the cross references for me, but I haven't tried that yet.

My next workflow challenge will be attempting to do some of the
writing (at least in draft form) in TW. Your suggestions should come
in very handy, Richard. I actually think TW may improve my writing
process because I will be chunking it into smaller tasks. Right now
Word tends to increase my anxiety because I'm paying too much
attention to the page count and formatting as I go along. TW will let
me forget about most of that and concentrate on content. Word's
stylesheets will take care of the formatting later. Now if I can just
make the TW interface fade away and take over my entire screen (see
http://www.ommwriter.com/) I would be very happy indeed. Pandora and
iTunes can provide the tranquil audio if I really want it.

My advisor has been pushing me to create a multimedia dissertation.
There's only been one before on our campus, and it only was an online
repository to an archive of participant interviews on video, but the
diss itself was the traditional paper format. TW conjures up the
possibilities of a single-file, self-editing, reusable non-linear
personal web dissertation in all its hyperlinked and media-embedded
glory. But then, that would be lazy, wouldn't it? :-)

Thanks all!

David

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-30 Thread David


On Dec 29, 1:24 pm, JayF fogle...@mail.uri.edu wrote:
  I've used a number of different tools for notes and bibliography (Sente,
  Tinderbox, Delphi, Personal Brain, Zoot, etc., etc.) and still am using
  Sente for biblio. I used Zotero for a while, too.

I really like the lateral linking in Personal Brain, but a license is
pricey. There's a lot to like about Sente, but I find it hard to get
it to match up a citation and a pdf when they are not entered at the
same time. Papers (mekentosj.com) works better for me than Sente and
is half the price. Never quite warmed up to Zotero, but probably
because I mostly use Safari. But I still wind up primarily using the
free Journler, mostly because I can save pdfs to a Journler drop
folder and have them imported immediately (if the app is running) or
later the next time I open it. I can just surf along in a browser as
normal and save items whenever I come across them. Research for me
is broader than just academic databases. Google Scholar's new feature
to show links directly to your campus library database also makes this
approach much easier. Also a big fan of the free Skim for annotating
pdfs. (Yes, I'm on a Mac).

Just tried the FileDropPlugin from tiddlytools.com and think it may
move me to using TW for collecting and annotating. I need to come up
with a workflow that is as painless as Journler. I can do this
manually by saving files to a TW drop folder and then go back later
and manually drop those files into TW, but that requires me to
remember to do it. Maybe there's a TW plugin (or maybe there could be)
that monitors a particular folder and automatically imports any new
files using the FileDropPlugin (or similar).

I can also imagine pretty easily creating an APA 6th bib formatting
tool using slices and transclusion. But for large numbers of
references, I'm sure Sente, Papers, and others would be more robust.

 I also wanted to be able to work on different computers (home,
 netbook, office). To do this in TW,  I save my TW (and supporting
 graphics files) in a  dropbox (mydropbox.com) that automatically syncs
 to a server and my other machines.  

I'm also a fan of Dropbox, but I use it a bit differently. I don't
have a second computer, but I do have a second virtual machine on my
Macbook, and Dropbox makes it easier to move files between OS X and
XP. I also use the Dropbox folder for critical docs I want to be sure
are backed up in the cloud without me ever thinking about it (extra
insurance on top of my full server backup at home). And I also use it
for quickly sharing files across the web with others, as I have done
here.

I'm not at the dissertation stage yet. Still completing my residency
project and looking forward to comps in the fall, but I'll be eager to
hear any other suggestions for organizing scholarly research. TW
definitely has a lot of potential here.

David

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-30 Thread iain
Neil,

my first thesis was typed by a typist, my second was done on Wordstar
on a Kaypro luggable machine running CP/M and used lots of file cards
(which I still find occasionally) my Doctorate was on good old MS Word
with the references in EndNote and with sheaf's of notes which form a
fall of my garage. So I have been through generations of computer
aided research.

I am still an active researcher and although the amount of paper
doesn't seem to have gotten any less I do use the combination of TW
and EndNote for my research. EndNote is really only used because I
already have several databases  including one with 3700 references. If
I was seriously starting out again I would use Zotero.

I have several TW's which I use as a combination of research notes and
databases for the various projects I am working on.

I use a tweaked version (improving the colour scheme) of Morris
Gray's  My Notes and am playing around with Dave Gifford's No Brainer
notes which has the tree view plugin. Both Morris and Dave are
promising new improved versions sometime in the New Year. If you
search on this forum you will run into them and links to the TW's.

I am less interested in the programming side of things and I have
found both these implementations of the TW idea useful because I can
just get started and do the research.

Of course I am working in the archaeology/history/heritage area and if
you are writing a disscertation on fractual geometry you my need a
different type of TW.

yours

Iain






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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-29 Thread Eric Weir

On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:21 PM, JayF wrote:

 I just finished my dissertation and used TW for the last two years of
 my research.  TW + TiddlerBar +  TiddlyTagging + YourSearch works
 well.  I also added several other features such as a set of subject
 tags that I used to organize my reading notes in preparation for my
 lit review.

My dissertation was finished before the net, let alone TW, but for  
more or less academic writing the components Jay mentions are the ones  
that have worked for me. To them I would only add MatchTagsPlugin,  
which allows you to do Booleian searches on tags, and thus to set up a  
more sophisticated tagging system:
http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#MatchTagsPlugin
http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#MatchTagsPluginInfo

As you may have noticed already, the TiddlyWiki community is extremely  
generous in its willingness to help, regardless of the level technical  
sophistication of those requesting help, and also highly creative.  
Most often requests from new users are addressed by solutions that are  
already available. When they are not one will be produced pretty  
quickly. Rarely is there a request that goes unanswered.

So, stick around. You will learn a lot.

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-29 Thread Eric Weir

On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Neil Olonoff wrote:

 I work in several different location on both Macs and PCs, and so  
 have tried to have a web-based location for my research.

One of the advantages of TW is that it is platform independent. Also,  
using TiddlySpot you can have your TWs hosted online. And they can be  
carried around on a USB stick.

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-29 Thread JayF
 I've used a number of different tools for notes and bibliography (Sente,
 Tinderbox, Delphi, Personal Brain, Zoot, etc., etc.) and still am using
 Sente for biblio. I used Zotero for a while, too.

 I would definitely appreciate any tips you might have on using TW.

I also wanted to be able to work on different computers (home,
netbook, office). To do this in TW,  I save my TW (and supporting
graphics files) in a  dropbox (mydropbox.com) that automatically syncs
to a server and my other machines.  This is way cool, because I can
just keep my TW open in a firefox window on every machine, and as long
as I remember to give it each computer a chance to sync to the server
when it wakes up, I just refresh in the browser to have access to my
latest TW.

I use zotero now because it does the same thing, as the new version
(1.5, summer) allows me to back up my ref collection in the cloud from
my netbook and resync on my office computer as soon as zotero is
accessed.  Very convenient and free.   Hope this is helpful.

Jay

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-28 Thread Mark S.
These example sites seem to work around the edges of what you want:

  http://www.pacifica.edu/lib/theses.html
  http://deferentialgeometry.org/
  http://imp.peermore.com/imp/recipes/imp/tiddlers.wiki

I don't know how you searched this group, but the search engine is
basically broke. The method I use is to search on google with site-
specific search:

  thesis site:http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki

I used 'thesis', but I'm sure other terms will come to mind.

HTH
Mark

On Dec 28, 9:56 am, Neil olon...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,

 Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
 location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
 using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
 documents really don't connect very well.

 I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
 references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
 down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?

 thanks,

 Neil

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-28 Thread Neil Olonoff
Thanks Mark!

I did the search on the site, and searched on dissertation, thesis and
research, and found about 4 posts.

thanks
Neil

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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Mark S. throa...@yahoo.com wrote:

 These example sites seem to work around the edges of what you want:

  http://www.pacifica.edu/lib/theses.html
  http://deferentialgeometry.org/
  http://imp.peermore.com/imp/recipes/imp/tiddlers.wiki

 I don't know how you searched this group, but the search engine is
 basically broke. The method I use is to search on google with site-
 specific search:

  thesis site:http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki

 I used 'thesis', but I'm sure other terms will come to mind.

 HTH
 Mark

 On Dec 28, 9:56 am, Neil olon...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,
 
  Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
  location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
  using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
  documents really don't connect very well.
 
  I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
  references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
  down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?
 
  thanks,
 
  Neil

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-28 Thread JayF
Hi Neil,

I just finished my dissertation and used TW for the last two years of
my research.  TW + TiddlerBar +  TiddlyTagging + YourSearch works
well.  I also added several other features such as a set of subject
tags that I used to organize my reading notes in preparation for my
lit review.  I can share feature details if there is interest, but one
tip would be to use Zotero in conjuction w/ TW to keep your references
and notes organized.

Good luck with your research!

Jay

On Dec 28, 12:56 pm, Neil olon...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,

 Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
 location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
 using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
 documents really don't connect very well.

 I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
 references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
 down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?

 thanks,

 Neil

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-28 Thread Neil Olonoff
Jay,
I work in several different location on both Macs and PCs, and so have tried
to have a web-based location for my research

I've used a number of different tools for notes and bibliography (Sente,
Tinderbox, Delphi, Personal Brain, Zoot, etc., etc.) and still am using
Sente for biblio. I used Zotero for a while, too.

I would definitely appreciate any tips you might have on using TW.

thanks,

Neil

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Lead, Federal Knowledge Management Initiative,
Federal KM Working Group hosted at  http://KM.gov
Office:  703.614.5058 (US Army HQDA, G-4/Contracted by Innolog)
Mobile: 703.283.4157 (Disabled during working hours)
Personal profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/olonoff
Blogging at http://FedKM.org


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:21 PM, JayF fogle...@mail.uri.edu wrote:

 Hi Neil,

 I just finished my dissertation and used TW for the last two years of
 my research.  TW + TiddlerBar +  TiddlyTagging + YourSearch works
 well.  I also added several other features such as a set of subject
 tags that I used to organize my reading notes in preparation for my
 lit review.  I can share feature details if there is interest, but one
 tip would be to use Zotero in conjuction w/ TW to keep your references
 and notes organized.

 Good luck with your research!

 Jay

 On Dec 28, 12:56 pm, Neil olon...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,
 
  Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
  location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
  using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
  documents really don't connect very well.
 
  I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
  references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
  down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?
 
  thanks,
 
  Neil

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[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-28 Thread shavinder
In the differential geometry site here
http://deferentialgeometry.org/#[[Clifford%20matrix%20representation]]
how has the author done up all that equations? Its not TW wiki markup
I am sure. Is it some special plugin?
for example what is this?::

$$
\begin{array}{cc}
\si_1 = \sigma_{1}^{P} =
\left[\begin{array}{cc}
0  1\\
1  0
\end{array}\right]

\si_2 = \sigma_{2}^{P}=\left[\begin{array}{cc}
0  -i\\
i  0\end{array}\right]
\end{array}
$$


On Dec 28, 11:20 pm, Mark S. throa...@yahoo.com wrote:
 These example sites seem to work around the edges of what you want:

  http://www.pacifica.edu/lib/theses.html
  http://deferentialgeometry.org/
  http://imp.peermore.com/imp/recipes/imp/tiddlers.wiki

 I don't know how you searched this group, but the search engine is
 basically broke. The method I use is to search on google with site-
 specific search:

   thesis site:http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki

 I used 'thesis', but I'm sure other terms will come to mind.

 HTH
 Mark

 On Dec 28, 9:56 am, Neil olon...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,

  Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
  location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
  using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
  documents really don't connect very well.

  I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
  references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
  down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?

  thanks,

  Neil

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Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for Research and Dissertation

2009-12-28 Thread Dave
That is LaTeX markup using the jsMathPlugin and jsMath library.

http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/welcome.html
http://bob.mcelrath.org/tiddlyjsmath-2.0.3.html


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:36 PM, shavinder shavinderpalsi...@gmail.comwrote:

 In the differential geometry site here
 http://deferentialgeometry.org/#[[Clifford%20matrix%20representation]]http://deferentialgeometry.org/#%5B%5BClifford%20matrix%20representation%5D%5D
 how has the author done up all that equations? Its not TW wiki markup
 I am sure. Is it some special plugin?
 for example what is this?::

 $$
 \begin{array}{cc}
 \si_1 = \sigma_{1}^{P} =
 \left[\begin{array}{cc}
 0  1\\
 1  0
 \end{array}\right]
 
 \si_2 = \sigma_{2}^{P}=\left[\begin{array}{cc}
 0  -i\\
 i  0\end{array}\right]
 \end{array}
 $$


 On Dec 28, 11:20 pm, Mark S. throa...@yahoo.com wrote:
  These example sites seem to work around the edges of what you want:
 
   http://www.pacifica.edu/lib/theses.html
   http://deferentialgeometry.org/
   http://imp.peermore.com/imp/recipes/imp/tiddlers.wiki
 
  I don't know how you searched this group, but the search engine is
  basically broke. The method I use is to search on google with site-
  specific search:
 
thesis site:http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki
 
  I used 'thesis', but I'm sure other terms will come to mind.
 
  HTH
  Mark
 
  On Dec 28, 9:56 am, Neil olon...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   Hello Tiddly Wiki folks,
 
   Just discovered Tiddly Wiki and am considering using it as a central
   location for research documentation for my dissertation. I've been
   using Google Documents, but but it feels clunky -- the various
   documents really don't connect very well.
 
   I've done a search through the prior posts and have seen a couple of
   references to folks using it for this purpose, but the demo sites are
   down. Does anyone have any comments or tips?
 
   thanks,
 
   Neil

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