This post is written for the purpose of helping TW to grow. I have been aware of TW for a number of years.
I have been fascinated with it and I actually love it. But I never managed to get going with it. My reasons are: 1. The famous [infamous?] learning curve of how to actually use it - it can dazzle the mind very quickly. 2. The GUI - In my last attempt to use TW I suddenly realise that the first thing I always do when I retry to use TW is change the GUI. I never realise but I think subconsciously I do not like the TW’s GUI and *mainly *there’s something wrong with the side bar being on the right. Then I failed to find the way to put the side bar on the left. And I got tired of asking you guys stupid questions so again I gave up my TW endeavour. [I know one can change the appearance to one’s liking - TW is extremely flexible - see my first point....][and *the community is great* but it is tiring always to have to ask what one knows are silly questions] 3. This one is the real discovery that thanks to HomelabOS I realised to be the real issue for me: It is very difficult for a person who is not tech minded and who uses different devices to have one TW centrally served on all devices. For someone who does not know how to set up a server and make it secure - or who does not have the time to go and learn how to do that - this is the real deal breaker. So yesterday I installed HomelabOS on a digital ocean droplet And Looking at their available software I was so glad to see TW It was the first service i enabled. How happy I was to have my TW easily available on my iPhone and my iPad?? I was delighted. Even the normal GUI - which as I said i think needs some changes - became acceptable because I could actually use my TW anywhere!! And in fact the GUI looks rather nice on an iPad and iPhone. My experience leads me to think [and therefore to take the time to write this post] that if TW is to become the success that it clearly can be [as it does provide something amazing!!] the point of ease of use on different devices must become top of the list issue to work out. I hope this post is not read as a negative post - it certainly isn’t meant that way. I wrote this post because I do want this community to succeed. I think you folk have amazing product. It just needs to be accessible. Cheers -- 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/0461477f-1117-40eb-9d22-f59b46831346%40googlegroups.com.
