Hi Soren 1) You might want to team up with...shoot, my mind is drawing a blank. But there is someone from Spain who has been working on a book for over a year. He had quite a bit of material. 2) Would you consider a series of short videos? Or even offer a for-profit course based on a series of short videos? (similar to what Nat Eliason did for Roam Research). That would be more practical than a book for most users, and easier for you to update. If you did it well, you could make some money off of it! Nat's course allowed him to buy a second home. I doubt a TiddlyWiki course would do the same, unless TiddlyWiki suddenly took off, but at least it should be able to pay you back your time and expenses. 3) I am by Stobot's reckoning, an intermediate user. Normally I would love to look it over. But now that vacations are done, I am going to be swamped until April with my regular job. Sorry!
Blessings on your efforts. We really need more of that intermediate level stuff. Feel free to grab stuff from my https://giffmex.org/gifts/documenting.tw.html if it helps. On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 5:34:13 PM UTC-6 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > Hi all, > > As the end of the year approaches and I start planning personal goals for > next year, I thought I'd share an early update on a project I'm really > excited about and hope will be a boon for the TiddlyWiki community: a > TiddlyWiki textbook (written in TiddlyWiki, of course). > > Right now we have (mostly) good technical documentation for advanced > users, a thriving Google group, and plenty of introductions to TiddlyWiki, > but nothing that bridges the gap by helping new users who are serious about > learning the ins and outs of TiddlyWiki to build a complete understanding > of TiddlyWiki concepts. That's what I'm hoping to fix. > > One of the other things I'm excited about is my included prototype of a > mnemonic > medium > <https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4rRX3qwSSJRsEkdXKwH2shamgHNeRthrMLiF> in > TiddlyWiki built on top of my TiddlyRemember plugin. This allows simple > prompts to be embedded in the text, then reviewed at regular intervals > controlled by a spaced-repetition algorithm, either with a simple > native-TiddlyWiki reviewer or in Anki <https://apps.ankiweb.net/> via > TiddlyRemember. With this medium, learning and retaining large amounts of > new terminology and syntax is much easier. > > [image: Screenshot from 2020-12-30 17-08-30.png] > > I've been working on this off and on for a few months and am hoping that > within the next month or two, I'll have a solid draft. At that point I > would like to send this out to a handful of people for an initial, rigorous > round of private review and feedback. I would like to involve several > expert users and several beginners (I'd love to see 2-3 in each category). > Here's what I'd hope to hear from these reviewers: > > Experts: > > - See any outright errors? I'm sure I made a few. > - Did I miss any concepts or features that you use all the time or > think are essential? > - For the resources at the end: What major resources or plugins would > be worth including that I don't know about or haven't included? > > Beginners: > > - Did everything I wrote make sense? > - How well did the mnemonic medium work? Were the prompts effective? > Did you understand how to use it? > - Did your TiddlyWiki skills improve? > - Were the exercises too hard? Too easy? Lacking enough information? > - Roughly how long did it take to work through the book? > > I would be looking for a commitment to read through the whole book, > ideally do most of the exercises, and offer substantive feedback. The book > is currently about 70,000 words and includes plenty of exercises, so > although I have no data on how long it will take to work through the book > at this point, I can't imagine it would be a one-evening task. As > compensation, I can offer early access to the book, your name in the > acknowledgements, a $25 Amazon gift card (maybe more if there are fewer > reviewers or I can cram it into my budget), and a huge thank-you to anyone > who's willing to help out. > > If you're interested in being involved when the time comes, please let me > know here or by emailing contact at sorenbjornstad.com. If your ability > to help out depends on the timeline, please let me know and I'll see what I > can do. > -- 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/c7ed0509-b7d9-43e9-9ccb-c5fd553d1eb4n%40googlegroups.com.
