Soren, I think I'm part of the target audience for Grok TiddlyWiki, despite being a long-time user. I have never given myself a systematic approach, and have instead always learned whatever bits I need to solve this or that problem-at-hand. I'm grateful for your learning tool, and am slowly working through it (systematically including nearly all exercises through Chapter Four, with skimming and selective reading past that, as I've had less time to devote recently).
The organization seems helpful to me, though like many dabblers I have depth in some areas you call "advanced" and deficits in some basics. A few early portions feel too elementary for me, but I've worked through them anyway, partly to make sure I absorb technical terminology better (where I know how to do X but not what the ingredients are called), and partly because I am frequently surprised, even in early chapters, by what Tones calls the occasional "easter egg" of discovering a new thing. I did have one frustrating rabbit-hole experience with the RubberDucking exercise, but it was anomalous (I was working on a clone of your book, which contained an error you have since fixed. On my version, you hadn't yet compensated for how you tucked various components into shadows. I "fixed" the exercise filter's punctuation correctly, but it still showed nothing. My Rubber Duck was not at all helpful until it suggested that I dial up the book at your url, where "Eureka!" the actual exercise prompt was different. I could email you the details, but it's not of general interest.) I'm pretty sure my skills are improving, especially if I think half of a skill is having the right *concepts* for one's skills, and a cogent understanding of their scope and limits. One thing I specifically appreciate is that a search for "boolean" on your book brought me to a helpful discussion. I had tried in vain to find "boolean" on tiddlywiki.com (where it appears only incidentally around "then" and else") and on https://tobibeer.github.io/tw/filters/ ... (Not getting any helpful hits at these two spots did make me feel pretty crazy!) Finding a direct discussion of how boolean operations need to be approached, for filters, is the kind of thing many users might appreciate. (Note: I'd add words like "conjunction" and "disjunction" to your discussion, to aid searchability. The word "or" is of course unhelpfully too short -- with too many false positives -- for those who bring logical concepts to TiddlyWiki but aren't yet oriented to its operators.) -Springer On Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 9:56:56 AM UTC-4 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I know quite a few people on here have been reading at least some of my > book Grok TiddlyWiki <https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/>. While I've > gotten quite a bit of specific feedback submitted through the built-in > feedback mechanism, I've been coming up short on overall impressions and > significance beyond "thanks so much for this book." If you've looked at the > book and you have a few moments, I'd love to know what you think. For > instance: > > - Is the book organized effectively? > - What parts have you read/worked through? > - How have you been using the book? Have you done some of the > exercises and flashcards? Do they work? (I'm particularly interested in > this question because I'd love to iterate and build more resources like > this one in the future.) > - How have your TiddlyWiki skills improved, if they have? > - Any other thoughts? > > If there's anything you don't want to share publicly, feel free to email > it directly to me at contact (at) sorenbjornstad.com. > > Much appreciated, > Soren > -- 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/d684dabc-0b58-41c0-b6c2-0fe6a86c0813n%40googlegroups.com.
