David, I'm guessing you mean *The Book Wiki <https://github.com/kewapo/The-Book-Wiki>* by Kewapo <https://github.com/kewapo>
On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 7:11:51 PM UTC-7 David Gifford wrote: > 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/f4d0f277-532d-4e19-b44d-02791ba1bf64n%40googlegroups.com.
