Jeremy, I agree that a more structured way to get into Tiddlywiki is needed to appeal to a greater audience. When I was looking for a solution for keeping my notes/records/information in something that was portable (very important to me) and easy to maintain, I stumbled into Tiddlywiki and I loved it. The basics I got right away. My issue, and I still have some, is how quickly I went from creating tids to needed ways to structure and organize them to ways to generate collections of lists and custom "reports". That is where I had issues. As I explored the main Tiddlywiki site I quickly got into the programming side of things i.e., widgets, macros, filters, and such. Now I am not a programmer, but I have programmed. These areas, to me, are written in a programmers - technical way and the concepts are hard to visualize. I think if there was a friendlier way to show how these things work and explain the concepts - connect the dots if you will - I think it would go a long way to making this more of a keeper app. I tend to use my wikis for a while and then run into a problem or need a new solution, or at least have an idea. When I go into the references for widgets and lists and such I kind of get lost and its hard to visualize what I need. Now having the forum and other sites helps tons. But I like figuring things out and I don't want to bother people with problems that might really be dumb. I will post when I hit a wall, but I know most people wont. They just want to use it and they don't have time to get there hands dirty.
So I guess after blathering a bit: - The bullets above are great - Maybe a non-programmers way to teach the programming - ease people into concepts - Maybe a front page article, weekly or so, that examines a particular concept and goes from basics and concepts to detailed examples. - These deep dive articles could be youtube videos or something Hope this helps in some way. This has been my experience and maybe atypical. I have really enjoyed Tiddlywiki. Shawn -- 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/c12c3a6b-5c22-4dd4-83f0-ca1e4ad5f9bd%40googlegroups.com.
