Sorry, No personal knowledge of research on tiddlywiki, but it is a laudable idea.
I am an IT specialist of many years, yet this is the first "community" I have wholeheartedly embraced. I suppose I must be a super user, and it is true my attempt to get average Joe user (Dad and Girlfriend) has been slow, but I persist. One of the problems you face may come about because of a feature of tiddlywiki. That is I love the web 2.0 nature of tiddlywiki that I have developed my own personal information manager and database. The best thing is as I see a need, I develop it further. eg; I was finding collections of tasks not really beloning to my day to day tasks and not beloning to full projects, or reference records, each of which I have developed systems to manage, so I am developing "subjects" I can use to collect disparate information together. The problem with this is I will possibly never have a "canned" tiddlywiki I test/give to others, the strength of tiddlywiki is this self managed development environment, which I expect remains with many individuals. TiddlyWiki's I own remain personal tools, so the "research" may need to address individual uses as much as when deployed to teams/organisations. Just some info that may help. TonyM If you have not found an easy way to do it with TiddlyWiki, you have missed something. www.tiddlywiki.com On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 07:03, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just maybe a decent starting point for leads is already at; > > http://www.tiddlywiki.com/#Examples > > I also recall seeing other compilations a few years back. I think > tiddlywiki.com contained a list of what was then called "flavors" or > that might have been a list in Mr. Simon Bairds monkeypiratetiddlywiki > (mptw, itself a flavor, I guess) or maybe it was a showcase of TW's > hosted at his tiddlyspot server. > > If I understand you right, you have not formulated your academic > 'problem' yet. How about conducting a little poll here in the google > group for suggestions, just to give you ideas for a thesis. Since you > wish for it to be *about* TW, I'd assume you wouldn't mind for it to > be valuable for the development of TW itself. > > If you're in the hood of the Osmosoft gang, maybe you could ask to > investigate how it has been integrated at BT? > > If you, in deed, hope for it to have some effect on very TW design, > then doing something in collaboration with the actual central > development team (the decision makers) is probably a good idea. > > Or maybe some of the generous plugin developers in here have some > questions that would help them in their generous efforts? > > Personally I think your suggesed question "Are TiddlyWiki adaptations > too complex for the average user." is interesting and would love to > throw TW at some interface ease-of-use design expert. Or how about a > quantative and comparative study, introducing new users to TW and > other 'competing' personal CMS alternatives and evaluating e.g ease-of- > use, desired features, intended applications etc etc? > > Sorry, you got me ranting ;-) > > /Mat > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
