On Aug 9, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Jason wrote:
> That said I am very much tempted to jump at TW completely. But of > course I want to be able to use everything I write down in TW also in > the not-so-near future. So my questions are: > * Is there anything that stands in the way of using TW as a some kind > of long-term (say at least ten years) knowledge database? > * In particular does anyone have enough insight into the inner > workings of TW to tell me whether changes in the workings of for > example browsers or software standards (HTML of javascript) might > threaten TW in the future. > * Do you think TW has a large enough user base to persist for the next > ten years? > * Is the structure of TW content simple and universal enough that it > can be integrated in other kinds of wikis or "knowledge databases" > that might come up in the future? As a physics student, Jason, you might want to check out Garrett Lisi's use of TiddlyWiki: http://deferentialgeometry.org/ And here is a video of a Lisi presentation in which he gets into a conversation about TiddlyWiki with members of the audience. http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/09/lisi-on-a-wiki.html And in harvesting the link to the video I discovered a link on the page to still another video of a talk Lisi gave explicitly on TiddlyWiki. It's fascinating, and I suspect you'll find it answers many of your questions. http://pirsa.org/08090057/ I sniffed around TiddlyWiki like a coyote around a baited trap for probably a year or more before committing to it wholeheartedly. What made the difference for me was discovering the power of taggly tagging. With it I found I could start my thinking and note taking on a topic with an initial sense of the structure of the project, then allow it to evolve as my understanding of the topic changed as I worked on it. I didn't have to have a fixed, or even a very clear, idea of the structure in starting out. Since then I've found a few plugins that are especially helpful to me, and a TiddlyWiki adaptation that had a lot of what I was looking for in a TiddlyWiki. That is TWT-Blackicity <http://twt-blackicity.tiddlyspot.com/index.html >. [Actually, I use TWT-Blackicity-lite ><http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1501581/twt-blackicity-lite.html > Welcome to TiddlyWiki, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to TiddlyWiki@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
