Hi Tony, Yes, the person who developed this with physical index cards was a German sociologist called Niklas Luhmann. He had a library of some 90,000 of such cards (proto-tiddlers, if you like) on a variety of topics and was able to write a significant number of books on the basis of his notes.
He had a sophisticated "linking" system, an impressive numbering system for a start card and then combinations of numbers and lower case letters for a branch, and a branch off a branch, and a branch off a branch off …… etc. Today most people use digital systems, of course, and having tried a number of apps I never really found one that satisfied me. I looked at TiddlyWiki a few years ago but walked away, put off by the steep learning curve (or so it seemed to me) and the coding. But TW never really left me, it kept niggling me, and after getting into markdown and its syntax, I felt a bit more comfortable with TW, and then fell in love. In my opinion TW has not gained more traction because of how it is perceived when someone looks at it, i.e. similar to my initial experience. That's why, in another thread, I mentioned that there should perhaps be a "lite" version with some basic built in features and buttons for easy customisation. Subsequently, when one has got used to it, an upgrade to a "pro" version should be possible. I did not get any reactions to that suggestion so I suppose the TW community is not interested. 20 Apr 2020, 09:24 by [email protected]: > Peter, > > Thanks for increasing our exposure. Its interesting reading that material. I > have never heard about the "Zettelkasten Method" I presume its German > originally, and based on cards, I would tend to call it a card based > reference/knowledge system. It is one of my hobbies since being an > Information/knowledge manager to take knowledge and skills honed in > computers, such as hierarchies, networks and databases. The fact is the > TiddlyWiki subtitle "> a non-linear personal web notebook" describes > something quite similar, perhaps along with "non-trivial Quine". I consider > tiddlywiki a platform and not only a software platform because it is also a > knowledge/information platform and it does networks and hierarchies quite > well and even better with add on's such as the TocP, Kin operator and more. > However Although I cant prove an infinity I can not see a data/knowledge > model we can't represent in tiddlywiki apart from those built with very big > data, although displaying the results can be fine. > > Don't hesitate to raise questions about developing such methods on Tiddlywiki > in the forum and do search for previous discussions. > > Regards > Tony > > > > On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 3:18:22 PM UTC+10, Peter Buyze wrote: > >> FWIW, here is a comment I wrote about TW: >> https://forum.>> >> zettelkasten.de/discussion/>> comment/5542/#Comment_5542 >> >> >> -- >> Securely sent with Tutanota. Get your own encrypted, ad-free mailbox: >> https://tutanota.com >> > > > > -- > 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/5a8f061a-94a1-4059-b72a-eb78f85dd006%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5a8f061a-94a1-4059-b72a-eb78f85dd006%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>> > . > -- 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/M5LTGVI--3-2%40tutamail.com.
