Hi Mohammad!

Sorry, but in my "quantum state" I had overlooked electron. :-).  ( Thanks 
for the link. )

Personally, I am quite happy with "TiddlyWiki", if only because ( like 
Charlie ) I prefer to not change Jargon.

If Size is a prime consideration, however, then I would enjoy Boson ( 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson ).  Based on what little I know of 
Theoretical Physics, I don't think there are likely to be any smaller 
references within Jeremy's promised 25 year time-span.  I could be wrong, 
of course, but I am unlikely to care since Kurzweil's singularity promise 
seems to be running late.

On Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 11:29:17 AM UTC-5 Mohammad wrote:

> Hi Hans!
> But seriously we have such a name.
>
>
>    1. Electron a famous framework lets create desktop apps using web 
>    technology https://www.electronjs.org/
>    2. Atom is great text editor https://www.electronjs.org/apps/atom
>    3. Graviton a minimalistic code editor 
>    https://www.electronjs.org/apps/graviton-editor
>
>
> Have a look at https://www.electronjs.org/apps supported by OpenJS and 
> you find quark.
>
> Just kidding: I prefer Tiddlywiki over atomic related things ;-)
>
> Best wishes
> Mohammad
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 6:50 PM Hans Wobbe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm probably spending too much time trying to understand Quantum 
>> computing, so AtomicCards suggests (to me) a possible wish to go a bit 
>> deeper and at least use subAtomic element names.  Quark? Maybe even Boson  
>> or Fermion?
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> Hans
>>
>> On Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 9:14:09 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> AtomicCards™
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2021, at 2:14 AM, BurningTreeC wrote:
>>>
>>> I like the name "AtomCards"
>>>
>>> to add my two cents to the discussion :D
>>>
>>> [email protected] schrieb am Montag, 28. Dezember 2020 um 07:14:43 
>>> UTC+1:
>>>
>>> I couldn't find if this topic has already been re-hashed this decade. 
>>> But I was wondering if there is any value in discussing alternative names 
>>> to the "Tiddly" part of the TiddlyWIki project. This project has been 
>>> around for so long that renaming / rebranding would be quite an effort. And 
>>> the Tiddly part is unique within programming projects, which helps to 
>>> eliminate false positives when searching for sample code.
>>>
>>> I am an American living on the Pacific Coast, so my linguistic 
>>> preferences are definitely different from Jeremy's. But just saying the 
>>> word 'Tiddly' out loud feels like trying to get people from certain Germany 
>>> dialects to say the word "Squirrel." It always feels forced to me.
>>>
>>> A joke by Lt. Commander Data on Star Trek the Next Generation was about 
>>> someone mispronouncing 'kidneys' as 'kiddleys.' We the store keeper 
>>> corrected him, the customer contested, "No, I said 'kiddleys.' Diddle I?"
>>>
>>> From just a project standpoint, the word 'Tiddly' is trying to focus on 
>>> the "small amount" of data or code that should be in any one unit. This way 
>>> many units can be combined in various ways to satisfy different needs. 
>>> Although it is intended to produce a Wiki-like user interface with deep 
>>> linking and back references, the way you go about it is by breaking up 
>>> large pieces of information into re-usable components.
>>>
>>> If your goal is to create "tiddlers," then using a TiddlyWiki 
>>> application would be a natural fit. If the goal of most people is to make 
>>> small units of re-usable components, then perhaps a different prefix would 
>>> make it more appealing. Again, this is just a personal opinion and not a 
>>> slight on the TiddlyWiki project as a whole, which I have been using 
>>> frequently everyday.
>>>
>>> There have been two alternate words kicking around in my head lately. 
>>> TipWiki or DotWiki.
>>>
>>> 'Tip' has a very similar double meaning to Tiddly - drunk people can be 
>>> 'tiddly' or 'tipsy', and just the 'tip' of something or a 'tiddly' amount 
>>> of something is quite small. There is an additional English meaning of 
>>> 'tip' to mean 'a small note or suggestion.' That seems to be actually the 
>>> point of TiddlyWiki: Make lots of small notes that can be re-combined as 
>>> pieces of many different larger pages. 'Tiddlers' would become 'Tips', and 
>>> a single 'tiddler' would become a single 'tip.' Phonetically, it feels a 
>>> lot easier to talk about.
>>>
>>> 'Dot' has an inherent meaning of 'smallest possible mark or amount.' 
>>> This would again drive home the concept of making the smallest possible 
>>> content for any one unit of information. Unfortunately, dots are already 
>>> associated with the 'dot notation' of Object Oriented Programming, so that 
>>> could make it a little confusing as to the overall goal for people with 
>>> software development backgrounds.
>>>
>>> The goal of renaming the project would be to push the desire for 
>>> "smallness" of the individual unit using a more standard English word. 
>>> Please forgive me if I am pushing anyone's buttons here. This topic was 
>>> just on my mind. Thank you for your time.
>>>
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