*Agnostic* re thinking and organization? That is a right fantastic quality-description.
Now you have me thinking about "adjectives" to describe TiddlyWiki qualities. If anybody else wants to join in on this "word game" (?), I submit these add-ons to TT's perfect start: *unpretentious* and *non-prescriptive*. Yeah, I love Scrabble. Not particularly good at it, but love it... On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 5:28:09 AM UTC-4 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > Ciao Soren ... > >> ... I love index cards, and they're very flexible, but they're *objects*; >> they don't do anything themselves. >> > > Right. FYI, just in the actions of a CREATOR, cards can do amazing things! > The Zettelkasten <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten>thing > emerged as a celebration of the *(physical-card-index)* mind of > sociologist Niklas Luhmann > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann#Note-taking_system_(Zettelkasten)>. > > Point being: it was A celebration of that vast card-isation he brilliantly > made for HIS purposes. > > >> You write them, you read them, you tag them, you reorder them, you filter >> them, you group them, but at the end of the day they're pieces of data in a >> single format that you, an actor outside the system of cards, are >> manipulating. Tiddlers aren't like that at all. Tiddlers behave like data, >> yes, but they also behave like templates and tags and filters and >> calculators and bulletin boards and highlighters. Tiddlers *do *the >> sorting and filtering on other tiddlers; the distinction between actor and >> data is gone, and it's all one system that loops back on itself. >> > > Right. My take on all this is that the "*Tiddler Architecture" o*f TW is > totally AGNOSTIC on what an end-user does in THEIR way of thinking or > "organizing". > TBH, that "agnosticism" is one of its most useful characteristics. There > is no whip-boy telling anyone what THEIR data should look like or that it > should be a regular database. > > Best wishes > TT > -- 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/a9546156-2a5c-4b8c-9416-d1c8ec7c0443n%40googlegroups.com.
