Last night Bauwe and I had a play with sharing a dropbox and using include plugin [1].
>From my perspective it was an interesting experiment. There were two TWs at the end of play; a personal TW each. The way the include works is good. If there is a conflict, then ones own version of the tiddler is the one that takes preference. Tiddlers included from another TW are read only. Its easy enough to cut and paste content into a tiddler of you own, and tag it with the title of the included one - tagglytagging style. I think its an interesting situation when you have the possibility of editing someone elses TW. It is after all on your machine. The initial feeling was an added feeling of intimacy and trust - essential for collaboration anyway. Overall, i am looking forward to further investigations. Alex [1] http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#[[IncludePlugin%20Documentation]] On 6 May 2011 04:15, Jon <[email protected]> wrote: >> For a while now it seems like there are a lot of people raving about >> Dropbox and TiddlyWiki. >> I'd like to investigate collaboration in a small group. > > I have used Dropbox and TW to share information with my research > students as a one-way communication (they don't change the TW). What's > nice about this is that there tend to be lots of files we need to > share, and using Dropbox means all I have to do is put them in a > folder system with links in the TW and voila! everyone has the files > on their own computers. > > We have also used a Dropbox/TW combination quite successfully to > manage documents and information for a faculty search. The TW had a > form for basic information about each candidate and links to > electronic versions of their documents; all is in a Dropbox folder and > thus again everyone has all the files. Here, anyone in the group could > add comments, notes, rankings, etc. This works pretty well but bumps > up against the limitation that ordinary TWs really aren't designed for > multi-user editing. I did the big edits at night, and most times other > users needed to edit only briefly, so they opened, edited, saved and > Dropbox caught up quickly. But sometimes someone would leave their > copy in edit mode for a while, during which time someone else edited > and saved, or two users would just happen to be editing at the same > time. The good thing is that Dropbox tracks this and saves both > versions (one as "XXX's conflicted copy"). The bad thing is that > someone (me) then has to compare the files and reconcile them. > > Hope that helps, > Jon > > -- > 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.
