In my latest "brain-age" game (Coding Fun: My take on recipe ingredients <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/Ug8IsxJX0z8>), I've gone all-in with structured data.
*(Aside: I tend to prefer using data tiddlers over fields, but that's the kind of conversation that deserves its own thread.)* Although structured data is very cool, I usually much prefer the loosey-goosey unstructured data. Like just about all things, which is better (structured or unstructured) - it depends Structured data involves big effort up front, but with substantial benefits later. - However, structure done wrong (big analysis up front did not consider some things until elucidation happened while knee-deep in the thick of it) can involve big effort re-jigging things if "quickly adjustable re-design" wasn't built it. (Maintaining documentation, even if just bread-crumbs, makes a re-jigging effort so much easier, but even maintaining bread-crumbs can be some effort.) - Building structure for possible future needs that never happen, that makes big effort up-front not so pretty re the cost-benefit ratio Unstructured data involves little effort up-front (immediate benefit), but could require big effort later: i.e. having to move all of that unstructured data into fields when structure is needed. Way too many thoughts about it all to write here. I'd need a dedicated TiddlyWiki. All of that to say that my "brain-age" game of structured recipe ingredients may turn into an expanded game that pits structured recipe ingredients head-to-head with unstructured ingredients. Proof in the pudding, advantages and disadvantages to both, maybe some trickery. Maybe via a shared TiddlyWiki running on nodejs, on a virtual machine, if anybody is interested. I do have, I think, enough credit in my Google Compute Engine to setup a virtual machine for some collaborative "brain-age" structured vs unstructured recipe tomfoolery for a couple of months... -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2455b72b-ace5-4341-9d9e-4634bb50780dn%40googlegroups.com.
