Hi all, I am a new TW user. I am a doctor(radiologist). I was using onenote as my note taking app since 2012-13. My notes were predominantly text files, images and onenote was enough for my requirements during those times.
But recently I started following radiology related data in twitter, telegram groups, YouTube and other sources. So there was a need to embed tweets, YouTube videos, webpages and short clips of CT and MRI scans in my notes. This made me look out for options other than onenote and I started searching in YouTube. Then I came across Notion from Ali Abdaal's YouTube videos. Notion had many of my requirements, but their free plan limited single file uploads to 5MB. That was a bummer since many of my short videos were bigger than 5MB. The search again continued. Then accidently I came to know about Roam Research, again from a YouTube video by Thomas Frank. But Roam Research had stopped taking beta user by the time I checked their site. By the time they opened their walls, it had become a paid app and was out of my option. So I started searching for apps similar to Roam in YouTube and came to know about TW, obsidian and remnote from a YouTube video on Roam Research alternatives by Shu Omi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJdnZpUXluQ&t=122s). This was about 3 or 4 months back. It was a short 4 minute video and only a brief overview of each app was given. I tried out each of those apps one by one since there was so much time available due to the corona situation. I started using remnote first and was happy with it. But being in its early stages, remnote didn't had all the features I needed so that I could make it my only note taking app. So I tried out Tiddlywiki in between while still using Remnote as my main app. Although I liked TW, I was not able to make it my go to app initially. I don't remember exact the reasons for that. May be I was biased to remote or I was not fully aware of the abundance of options with TW. And saving TW every time was cumbersome for me. But slowly I started experimenting with TW - installing different plug ins to find something which suits my taste. TW toolmap in dynalist was helpful and I also started reading google group discusions. It has been almost 2 months since I started my experiments with TW. Still I haven't found the best combination. Some of the plug ins in TW which like to use are - Muuritouch, Krystal horizontal story river, TWCrosslinks and Dailynotes from Drift, tidgraph, Project manager, editor auto list, two story river, refnotes, bibtex importer, Twitter plug ins, tobibeer preview, Cardo, themes by JD and adithya and much more. But some have compatibility issues with each other. The problem I find with tiddlywiki are: *Although its one of the most powerful note taking app if the plug ins are used properly, many of the plug ins are not compatible with each other - how can this be resolved? *Some of best plug ins are not updated to work smoothly with newer TW versions and newer plug ins. *Its difficult to understand the full capability or usage of 'some' of the plug ins unless the user is experienced in technical details. Even after two months of continuous use, I still haven't read even 10% of the documentation in the tiddlywiki website. Even though there are YouTube videos on TW, most of them are hangout videos, which are too long. It difficult to clear doubts from such videos. Despite so many hiccups, I still plan to use tiddlywiki as my main note taking app since it meet almost all of my requirements. Hoping for a better tomorrow. On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 11:16:24 PM UTC+5:30 bimlas wrote: > I think from your video and this Stroll presentation > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfoGR4AYT5Y&t=964s>, I understood why > TiddlyWiki most of the time isn’t mentioned besides Roam Research, Obisian, > and Notion, even if it surpasses them in several ways: it is not aimed at > the average user, but at those who are willing to take the time to make > their own wiki unique (almost even at the level of a hacker). > > PMario had a good idea > <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/4460> on how to make > TiddlyWiki easier to use for complete beginners, but it wasn't merged > mostly because "Generally, we're missing the opportunity to teach new users > how to accomplish things, and instead we're giving them a small and > inscrutable choice of customizations with a non-standard UI" (reference > <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/4460#issuecomment-586996695> > ) > > In fact, I think usability should be made simpler instead of teaching > everyone how to make TiddlyWiki omnipotent. If we want to make TiddlyWiki > more "famous", we simply need to make it easier to use (as I said in my > opinion about the pull request > <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/4460#issuecomment-587008785>), > for example, with solutions like Saq is introducing nowdays, or David's > Stroll or any other plugin of this group (I didn't want to personalize, I > just gave examples, I respect everyone's work). > > Hack availability should be just an option, not an expectation. for > example, to add a ToC, you also need to read a tutorial, although logically > it would be enough to just tick an option. > > I think TiddlyWiki has only two drawbacks: one is cumbersome (though with > an infinite number of options) personalization, and the other is > saving. Customization would be greatly facilitated if there were a > "community plugin repository" next to the official one in the control > panel, but this was already mentioned in another thread, I just don't > remember the end result. > -- 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/837d7a54-057e-47f9-aeb3-f84af6d32d8bn%40googlegroups.com.
