Now this is very interesting. Can you say more on this? 1) Which aspects of TiddlyWiki changed the way you think? And how?
Ideas in a stack, one on top of each other. The container of a thought having three elements, title, text and tags. TW introduced me to object orientatedness. Wiki as a hypertext tool - came across hypertext studying art (hyperlink the most exciting to happen to text since punctuation - Mark Berstein) . Convinced that writing hypertext links with punctuation - [[like this]] -- is the way to go. Brainstorming New Tiddler is always like 'the wet edge' (metaphor of painting a door : "always keep a wet edge ensures you have smooth edge" - family folk law). I like MPTW's newMeansNew - but only having one new tiddler on the go at one time is a constraint that I like. Since I started playing with code, the idea of refactoring, re-writing at different levels of abstraction has leached into my note writing. I like to think that learning about writing code has made my writing and thinking clearer. I use Firefox extention Ubiquity. I can select a word, evoke ubiquity then search in the background in the tab to the right. This makes workflow - from note to search very quick, and doing this in the background prevents interruptions to my flow. The workflow -- reviewing my open tabs when there are too many -- is something which fits with TW. which I have in the left hand side tab. Adaption I've moved the new tiddler button to the MainMenu, so that flow goes left to right. I've experimented with where I generate new thoughts from -- this would not be possible with another tool. At the moment I have a newHere button at the right of each tiddler and from the Tagging div. HyperText not MindMaps After a long period of chopping and changing, I think hypertext is better than visual and mapping arrangements. Visual representations tend to get driven by aesthetic considerations. Mindmaps: the links between objects are thin lines, you can't add info to them without them looking ugly, or re-drawing lines as object - it never feels right. The tags being tiddlers themselves makes the relationship between object and relationship seem more equal. i enjoy your question... i've not finsihed yet! ALex On 8 April 2011 11:31, Dani Zobin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think TW has changed the way I think. I arrived at TW after using >> many tools - mindmaps and Compendium (an open university hypertext >> mapping project) > > Now this is very interesting. Can you say more on this? > Which aspects of TiddlyWiki changed the way you think? And how? > I myself seek this kind of change. Actually I came to this tool (which I > haven't adapt yet in practice), because I was seeking exactly this > features , to organize my thought. (Extensive tagging, fast search, > wikilinks, and besides those - one bucket for all) > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
