Thanks for your comments Tony I agree TW can do more, but this really got me thinking about what TW actually is. As I use the flat file/node version, I frequently use a text editor to interact with my tiddlers. Depending on my search task, I use command line tools to search these flat files and that lets me escape many of TW idiosyncrasies.
On Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 9:46:51 PM UTC-5, TW Tones wrote: > > Diego > > Thanks for sharing and very interesting. In the past I may have adopted a > solution like this, being a lot of what I really wanted from a non-linear > notebook. However as broad as its scope I am not sure it is as much of a > *platform > as tiddlywiki* is, with high UI customisation and design alternatives. > > Whilst you could make a tiddlywiki that looks and works like foam, I am > not sure you could do the reverse. I would be more inclined to suggest it > was a roam competitor and thus competition for tiddlywiki for users seeking > roam type solutions, but not a full competitor to Tiddlywiki. > > I would also argue to look into and hack foam would require a programmer, > unlike tiddlywiki where you need not be a programmer, although you do start > to develop some skills as a programmer it does not demand learning a whole > language because of its building blocks. HTML CSS and Javascript are also a > little more of a global standard. > > Regards > Tony > > > On Monday, June 29, 2020 at 1:26:00 AM UTC+10, Diego Mesa wrote: >> >> I came across another interesting TW competitor today on HN: >> >> Github link: https://github.com/foambubble/foam >> >> HackerNews Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23666950 >> > -- 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/e9e97333-7638-4705-8834-5a5c99889aabo%40googlegroups.com.
