This is great Saq. I've been playing with it mostly on Tiddloid (on a cheap
Samsung). I'm amazed by how many great improvements you have made, and now
super-excited for the next release. Streams is looking better than most
'conventional' apps.
I have included several quibbles below, but only because it's hopefully
more helpful to you than just saying that everything is great. My overall
response, however, is overwhelmingly positive.
Here are my thoughts (mostly relating to the mobile UX):
- Overall the mobile experience is way smoother. Drag and drop didn't
work for me before, now it works reliably. The area to tap in order to drag
and drop seems suitably large - I'm not finding that I have to re-tap to
find the right spot.
- It feels like I have to hold down a little longer that I would expect
before the node becomes draggable. I know you wouldn't want it to happen
too quickly so as not to interfere with scrolling, but to me it just feels
too long. It's hard to say for sure without trying it for a longer period,
but I think it impacts the UX enough that it would probably prevent me from
bothering to use drag&drop at all on mobile.
- It's hard to judge, but double tapping to enter edit-mode seems to
have less of a delay than in the current stable version. It's still got a
delay, but I guess this could have something to do with my cheap phone.
- I have found that whenever I double tap to close edit mode on mobile I
end up highlighting some text. In most cases this doesn't actually affect
the function, but I do find it mildly stressful.
- Double tapping to the left of the text to works well, though currently
I don't instinctively do this. It also feels like it would be more natural
as a single rather than a double tap.
- Swiping to open the context menu is super-useful. Currently it seems
that if a context menu is already open, switching to a context menu on a
different node requires two steps: tapping to close the menu, then swiping
to open a new one. I think it would be more natural if swiping on a
separate node did both of these things at once.
- I tried the swipe-to-indent setting and found that it worked well, and
the lack of visual feedback/ability to undo doesn't strike me as a massive
problem. However I would probably not use this feature personally as I feel
that the context menu option is more useful.
- The reduced indent level looks nicer in my opinion. The streams look
more like they are part of the tiddler, if that makes any sense.
- The new control panel is super-sexy. I could easily tell what all the
settings did.
- One thing that bothered me about the current release is that I would
occasionally create new nodes from tiddlers that already had titles like
"tiddler/timestamp" and end up with lots of tiddlers called
"tiddler/timestamp/timestamp/timestamp" etc. With the new control panel I
was able to change the title template to my own custom macro that ignores
any already existing timestamps when generating new titles. I wonder if
this should be the default behaviour? Here is the macro that I used:
- \define new-streams-title()
<$vars timestamp=<<now "[UTC]YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ssXXX">> >
<$list filter="[<stream-root-title>!regexp[^.*/\d{17}$]]">
{{{ [<currentTiddler>addsuffix[/]addsuffix<timestamp>] }}}
</$list>
<$list filter="[<stream-root-title>regexp[^.*/\d{17}$]]">
{{{ [<currentTiddler>splitbefore[/]addsuffix<timestamp>] }}}
</$list>
</$vars>
\end
- The last point doesn't relate directly to the new features, but I
might as well mention it here. I frequently find myself opening a tiddler
and seeing that I have a bunch of nodes left in edit mode, which I have to
toggle one at a time. It would be nice I think to have a way either for
nodes to be set to read-mode automatically (maybe triggered by opening the
tiddler for a node, or closing the streams tiddler), or an option to just
set all nodes to read-only in batch.
Ok so now I realise that I have written a whole essay. Sorry. Thanks again
for Streams, it's a super-plugin.
On Friday, 8 January 2021 at 18:14:53 UTC [email protected] wrote:
> This is a preview of an experimental branch of Streams intended to explore
> optimizations and new ideas. Not all of these changes will make it to the
> final released version, depending on user feedback.
>
> Specifically, I am interested in feedback from regular users of Streams
> who can compare these new changes to the stable released version.
> https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/temp/streams-0.2-preview.html
>
> If you are new to Streams, I suggest looking at the latest stable release
> instead:
> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/1jTwdmq8cgI
> Performance improvements
>
> There are significant performance improvements. Very large streams now
> render over 300% faster.
>
> This has involved drastically simplifying the HTML structure of nodes, as
> well as optimizing the code used for drag and drop and the context menu.
>
> You can compare the rendering time for the tiddler "TiddlyWiki Toolmap" on
> the old version
> <https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/streams-tiddlytoolmap-expanded.html>
> versus
> the new one
> <https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/streams-tiddlytoolmap2.html>.
>
> *Please pay attention to whether drag and drop and the context menu still
> work as expected.*
>
> A lot of tweaks to the core code and custom widgets previously included in
> Streams have been deprecated as they are now a part of the TiddlyWiki core,
> making the plugin smaller and lighter to use despite the addition of new
> features.
> Context Menu
>
> The context menu has been extended with *indent* and *unindent* options.
> UX tweaks
>
> *Drag and Drop*
>
> The area that can be grabbed to drag a node has been extended.
>
> Drag and drop now works relatively well in Chrome on Android *mobile*
> devices.
>
> The modifier keys used to control the behaviour when dragging and dropping
> a node are customizable
>
> *Double click*
>
> You can also double click inside the editor as well as in the area to left
> of it to exit editing
>
> You can now double click the area left of a node as well as on the content
> of a node to edit.
>
> If using the default editor, you can also turn off double click inside the
> editor textarea
>
> *Swipe on touch devices*
>
> There is experimental support for swiping on nodes in touch devices
>
> Two modes are supported
>
> Swipe to indent / unindent
>
> Swipe to trigger a context menu on the node, from which you can
> indent/unindent, open, delete etc.
>
> There isn't any visual feedback when swiping. Due to the lack of native
> browser support this will not be implemented and therefore the behaviour to
> indent/unindent for swipe is likely to be dropped as it can be difficult to
> undo.
>
> *Miscellaneous*
>
> The max-width of a node is now customizable.
>
> The indent level of the stream root has been decreased.
> Settings Control Panel
>
> There is a new settings control panel for Streams, available both in the
> Control Panel as well as the plugin tiddler.
> CodeMirror integration
>
> If the CodeMirror plugin is installed, there is a configuration option in
> the Streams settings to choose the editor to use for Streams nodes.
>
> Testing and feedback is needed to make sure this works as expected, both
> using codemirror as the editor and using the default editor. The areas most
> likely to be affected are:
>
> - splitting a node by hitting Enter with the text cursor/caret in the
> middle of some text,
>
> - hitting Enter with the cursor at the beginning of some text,
>
> - or hitting backspace with the cursor at the beginning of a text.
>
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