Hey everyone, I'm a software developer and just started using TiddlyWiki a few days ago, and I would just like to share my perspective on it so far.
TW is fantastic, and I didn't even know something like this existed. I've had this almost subconscious feeling for years now that I needed to have some kind of easy workflow for documentation, not only for work, but for my life in general. I have been looking for a mixture between wiki, blog, and journal solutions using markup syntax like markdown, but completely private, version controlled, and stored in text files. Even after only a few days I'm fully convinced TW is the answer I've been looking for. Right now I'm running it on nodejs using TW folders, not single file, and using a git repo for syncing/backing up/version control. With that said, here are some of my concerns or just some of my particular needs/assumptions: - TW is extremely powerful and flexible, and the software dev side of me wants to over engineer it. However, my main objective is to document my life in a form that is as technology platform independent as possible, as close to just plain text files as possible, so that I don't rely on TW still being around 30 years from now, or rely on remembering how to use/maintain the infrastructure I created. So while macros, variables, plugins, etc. are all very interesting and powerful, I want to limit these as much as possible, and just use the built in markup language (WikiText) and the regular tagging/linking system. - The tagging system is great, but the fact that titles of tiddlers are unique identifiers is taking a while for me to get used to. I'm anxious every time I create a new tiddler because I feel like I need to put a lot of thought in to the title, knowing that it has to be unique, but also easily referenced via a link or tag. - Part of my anxiety from above has to do with trying to fit everything in my life (wiki, journal, to-do lists, etc) in one TW, and thus the titles take on even more importance because as I add things for the next 20 years, it still needs to be organized, and every title needs to be unique. I could use multiple TW's, however then I lose the ability to link between concepts across multiple TW's, and trying to update TW and keeping a consistent set of plugins, macros, etc across multiple TW's would be a nightmare. Not to mention, I would need to spin up multiple TW's at once if I wanted a full picture of my life, which would be disconnected since it's spread across multiple TW's. - So really my concerns have nothing to do with TW itself, but just how to best organize everything in my life into tags and titles, coming up with naming conventions and structure. I guess what would be nice is if there was a way to have everything in one TW, but namespaced or some other ability to have multiple contexts, so that you could have simple titles like "TODO List" but it would be context aware such that it could be under a specific project and I wouldn't have to worry about conflicts with other tiddlers named "TODO List". This way, I would still only have to worry about maintaining and updating plugins, macros, etc for one TW, and I could link between contexts using some namespace convention. I realize I could create a namespacing convention of my own, but then I would end up with a lot of added complexity. Anyway, that's my perspective on TW after a few days. I have a lot to learn, but I'm really excited I found this. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cddb75cc-84a7-479d-b7c7-8b957e30963e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
