Late to the party, again. Tiddlywiki - the product has outgrown the name. Did so a long time ago, even before TW5.
Xememex - what a beautiful word! Bad name for a product. That's as much of a "bump" as describing Tiddlywiki to a newcomer. Fundamental unit = tiddler? I've never agreed to this even though it's touted and repeated ad infinitum. Fundamental unit = fields/properties of a tiddler. i.e. "elementary particles". Atoms = currently called tiddlers. Molecules = tagged (or otherwise grouped) tiddlers. Long-chain molecule(s) = Story river(s) Not sure if there's a new name in there as that stands, but my brane (not a typo) is leaning toward String Theory, though I'm not sure about "Brane" or "Membrane". Or maybe I am...? On Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 9:40:35 AM UTC-6 springer wrote: > 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/8bc74463-a13e-46ab-8ff2-4bf911a56f92n%40googlegroups.com.
