*Wild Card Wiki ::* *It's what you make of it.* On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 1:27:19 PM UTC Charlie Veniot wrote:
> *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/e9645f6d-2e1d-4eb8-80b5-e8c232383d12n%40googlegroups.com.
