Dear all, I confess that I sometimes rename 'tiddler' for my professional projects, *but* I also recall that "google" also sounded super-silly until it simply rewired our brains...
I'll honor Jeremy's suggestion that this thread not descend into a popcorn of name candidates... and yet I do think that there's some chance that when an ideal name is proposed it may actually bring about a kind of "eureka" moment for a critical number of us. How about this middle-ground: a brainstorm of the core *concepts* around which there's good promise for communicative recognition. Here's my off-the-cuff list (sorry if I've missed some in the thread that ought to be included), without trying to edit out ones that are "taken" or otherwise non-starters: Base (platform, database, starting-point) Build Card (& Deck or stack) (HyperCard, index card, very intuitive) Dwell (live in it while rebuilding it) Equip (especially as a verb; TW as equipment, but also can be equipped with...) Facet (there's more to see!) Fly (edit on the fly) Kaleido [unweildy, but...] Kit (chemistry kit, tinkering, lots of tools out of which you choose what you need) Meme/memo/memex [and other variants] Molecule/atom/nucleus [other metaphors from physics? fits Atro's logo well] Mutate/Morph [not great in viral era!] Nexus [yeah, taken] Node (not yet mentioned, but invokes both simplicity and power) Origami (the power of many facets, flexibility, simple starting point) Pack (pack it up, packs a punch, change what's in it...) Poly- (as a prefix invoking polyphony, polymorphous...) Point (both node-like, and verb-like; PoinTWiki would get TW in there, as would KitWiki) Record (I'm a database user; this clues me into the power of fields) Self- (as NoteSelf picks up on, having self-modification tools "folded in"...) Theseus (yeah, a philosopher's inside joke) Tid (tidbit, continuity with Tiddler) Topo (topology, topics, map-like) My suggestion is that we just allow these and other metaphors some breathing room, and imagine their various connotations and powers... If we can orient to a network of conceptual "hooks" on which a rebranding could hang, then perhaps the conversation is less yanked-about by this and that, but gets the associative juices going... -Springer On Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 9:34:37 AM UTC-5 Charlie Veniot wrote: > Don't mind me. I just finished my first oh-so-excellent cup o' coffee for > the day, and I'm in a zen mood. > > Just waxing a little philosophical: I don't see anything as a mistake. > I see a thing as the culmination of a series of intertwingled things that > came together into a particular result that could not have been otherwise > at that moment. The result was meant to be, a wee tiddly and necessary > step on the journey's path. > > Now I'm about to make myself a second cup of coffee, and a few sips into > that, I may just think: what the heck was I thinking and what "need" was I > trying go handle? > > >> >> >> *And more important*: lets correct the past design mistakes! >> >> >> -- 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/8c2036aa-bbed-428c-b017-fa27d459aa84n%40googlegroups.com.
