Bimlas
I like very much your comments on USAGE. How to fit use of TW to users
immediate cognitive needs. The OP is a neat example. As are your several
recent comments by you on the power and simplicity of uncomplicated
linking (rather than taggery).
You are highlighting how much can be done almost effortlessly in TW.
Indeed, IMO, the fundamental architecture of our tool, TW, lends itself to
very elegant lightweight solutions.
Its an interesting question how much sophistication one actually needs to
achieve aims?
Regarding the OP, its interesting because its "*procedural*" (i.e. *its
notes in flow to then type elsewhere or lose). *That is likely very close
to one very common working need--to "jot" a note as part of a wider
compositional process--but also to jot a note and *auto-discard *it. Its
the ACT of writing that can often be enough, then it enters mind, no need
for it to be preserved.
FWIW, I write, on paper, about 30 notes on paper to myself a day. 95% of
them I discard soon. About 1 in a hundred I may type into a computer wiki.
Its the fit between processes of finding/honing and where bothering to
record them in a wiki it gets interesting. I thought the OP understood that
cognitive issue well.
Best wishes
TT
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 09:35:09 UTC+2, bimlas wrote:
>
> It’s a good habit to write down the short-term thoughts / tasks in your
> head, instead of constantly repeating them so you don’t forget them ("mind
> like water", "close open loops" philosophy). These thoughts only take
> minutes, so there is no need to make a separate note of them.
>
> For example, you search for a note and you see a sentence that needs to be
> corrected in another note during the search. Instead of keeping this
> short-term task in your head, write it down on a piece of paper. But why
> would you do that if you’re just using a note-taking program?
>
> This simple solution provides a quick example of how easily TiddlyWiki can
> be customized to your needs and provides a useful solution:
>
> - Go to https://tiddlywiki.com/empty.html
> - Create a new tiddler, name as you want
> - Add "$:/tags/SideBarSegment" tag
> - Set the content to: <$edit-text placeholder="Scratchpad" default=""
> minHeight="1em"/>
> - Save the tiddler
> - To move the scratchpad to another position, open the tag's drop-down
> menu and drag-n-drop the current tiddler
>
> Because the contents of the scratchpad are not permanent (it will be blank
> the next time you open the wiki), it requires that you use it for its
> intended purpose (and don’t start accumulating thoughts in it that you
> should write in permanent notes).
>
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