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

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

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

[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

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

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

[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,

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

[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.

[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

[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

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! Neil Olonoff olon...@gmail.com 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

[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

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.

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

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

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

[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

[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

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 Neil Olonoff olon...@gmail.com Lead, Federal Knowledge Management Initiative, Federal KM Working Group hosted at http://KM.gov Office: 703.614.5058 (US Army

[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

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

[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} =

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