Didn't someone adapt 'Freemind' or mindmaps to a TW? That would work great for writing a novel. Get all your different plots going and then waive them in and out in complex order for final story.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:55 PM, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Have a look at TiddlyDocs > http://hoster.peermore.com/recipes/tiddlydocs-demo/tiddlers.wiki > > search TiddlyWeb group for more > > regards Mario > > On Mar 18, 11:35 pm, twgrp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Touched upon many times, but simply not satisfactorily manifested yet: > > TW as a tool for authoring books! > > > > No, I cannot find any existing implementation for this, surprisingly. > > A few attemps have been made at writing books with TW and some ideas > > to use TW as a hypertext story tool. That's not what I'm talking > > about. I'm talking about TW as a tool to create normal, longer, to-be- > > printed books, articles, academic papers, magazines etc. I.e > > effectively creating, displaying and sequencing(!) tiddlers so that > > they can build up a *linear* whole. > > > > Let us make an attempt at identifying existing plugins and otherwise > > specify the needs to use TW as an effective authoring tool. > > > > I think a good solution to this really could open a new MAJOR > > APPLICATION for TW! > > The concept is generic and easily understood by anyone considering > > using TW. > > In my experience almost everyone has ideas about writing a book in him/ > > her. (Don't you?) > > I'd even guess that this is of wider use than ANY of the applications/ > > examples explicitly mentioned to promote TW athttp:// > www.tiddlywiki.com/#Examples > > > > Ironically, TWs fractionated and non-linear nature that makes it > > perfect for information collection and flexible "information > > association" is almost the opposite of a printed books rigid, > > structured and linear nature. The authoring process itself, regardless > > of TW, is typically a matter of transforming creative and loose ideas > > into refined information and put into one exact location. This is true > > both for fictional and non-fictional writing, as well as for books, > > articles, papers or a Ph.D thesis. Note I'm talking about authoring, > > not formatting, let alone publishing etc. Any result would eventually > > have to be exported into some other tool like a word processor. > > > > I will post my thoughts on the needs and relevant plugins but figured > > it would be good to hear your general thoughts on the matter first. > > Solutions, problems, whys and whynots and particularly needs and > > specifications for the concept to be useful. > > > > :-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<tiddlywiki%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
