Mark S, None of these solutions will copy from one place on your hard drive to > another place on the same hard drive. > > That's why we made Polly -- which automatically copies files saved in the > download folder back to their original home. >
But as I know the problem is, saving to the file system is not easy enough, it is relatively complicated for beginners. Where to store files on your hard disk is less important to me than being able to automatically save the wiki from your browser to your hard disk without using the file selection dialog. As I understand it, Polly (which I haven't tried before, so I might have misunderstood) also requires manual backup (so that you press the "Save changes" button yourself), so it is as foreign to the new users as the built-in default download saver (EDIT: after turning on $:/Config -> Saving -> Download Saver -> Permit automatic saving, I think I understand Polly's purpose). The opening comment is that this type of backup mechanism (saving their wiki via dialog) scares people who are just getting to know TiddlyWiki (as it did with me first) because it seems overly complicated. I envisioned using the above mentioned applications as a separate saver and new users would have to do just one setup (saver selection) so they could easily use Tiddly. I'm sorry, but I'm going to get a little out of the original topic: Let's see who uses TiddlyWiki for the most part: scientists, teachers, technical people, programmers, so intellectuals. I do not think this is a coincidence, because the use of TiddlyWiki is basically not easy to understood for average users. TiddlyWiki is not for those who want to create a point-and-click notebook, but for those who want to manage, search, and reuse their notes, knowledge, and data at a higher level. I think that's what brought this "high quality" community to life, because only people who see the opportunities in TiddlyWiki are committed to it. Those who just want to categorize their notes will skip cognition because they find it too complicated. I don't really know if it would be useful to make TiddlyWiki as easy as possible. If it would be so easy to handle that a five year old would understand, I'm afraid this community wouldn't be as great as it is now. I think the difficulties that we are trying to solve in this and similar topics provide a natural filter: only people who overcome these obstacles will use Tiddly because they really need Tiddly. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d6181b84-a6ab-4fcf-b3f6-de2704caec59%40googlegroups.com.
