Hi all One thing Jeremy mentioned in the most recent TW hangout is the need for an introductory video to TW. I am not very good at video editing, nor do I have a good voice for narrating. But I think I could write up a script and do a rough video that others could then clean up for the release of TW5.
So here is my unfinished rough draft for a script for a video intro to TiddlyWiki 5, below the dashes. I would love your feedback. Is there anything really basic that is missing? Is there anything that needs to be clearer for new people? Is there anything that doesn't make sense or isn't correct? ----- Unless you’ve seen TiddlyWiki, we guarantee you, you’ve never seen anything like TiddlyWiki. TiddlyWiki is a tool, a toolbox, and a community. *TiddlyWiki is first of all a tool:* a downloadable tool for capturing and organizing content from the web, from your documents or from your brain. It’s a tool for note-taking, bookmarking, pinning, writing, managing to-do lists and projects, collaborating, blogging, and publishing. You can easily create or paste content into notes called tiddlers, then connect your tiddlers with hyperlinks and tags. You can even stack individual tiddlers like building blocks to create longer notes like articles, lists and presentations. In addition to being a tool, *TiddlyWiki is also a toolbox:* where other note-taking products hook you with the basic program then charge you for the really helpful features, TiddlyWiki has an ever-expanding collection of completely free visual themes, plugins, widgets and macros, which you can then mix and match so that you can tweak and tailor your TiddlyWiki to get it just the way you want it. *TiddlyWiki is also a community:* a community of users and developers who help each other imagine new ways of thinking and organizing, who help each other create new solutions so that TiddlyWiki is continually adapting to better serve your needs. You can download as many stand-alone TiddlyWiki files as you want. You can create one for each topic or project, if you wish. You can use TiddlyWiki as a single, ever-expanding file, or you can use it to manage each of your note tiddlers as separate files. You can also store and use TiddlyWikis at secure websites like TiddlySpot and TiddlySpace, so that you can access and edit your TiddlyWiki from anywhere, and you can even share tiddlers back and forth with others. TiddlyWiki has so many features and creates so many possibilities, that it may seem intimidating at first. But the basic steps to TiddlyWiki are really simple: 1. *Create.* Just click on the plus icon to the right to create a note called a tiddler. Give it a title in the top window, tag it as desired, and add content to the large window. Then click the checkbox when you’re done editing it to view the results. Clicking on the pen icon in any tiddler opens it up in edit mode so that you can modify it. You can also drag and drop images from your device into TiddlyWiki, and they are automatically turned into tiddlers. These tiddlers are displayed in a vertical river of tiddlers. You can scroll up and down to navigate the river, or jump back and forth between them using the links in the “open” tab. You can also see what tiddlers reference the present tiddler in their links and tags, by clicking on the information icon. 2. *Connect.* TiddlyWiki uses hyperlinks and tags to allow you to connect your tiddlers to each other. a. You can create *hyperlinks* within any tiddler that link to either external webpages or to other tiddlers in your TiddlyWiki. Just use camel case lettering (alternating between upper and lower case letters) to create links, or enclose multiple word texts with double brackets. Clicking on links to existing tiddlers opens them. Clicking on empty links creates a new tiddler with that title. b. Another way to link tiddlers is by adding *tags*. Tags are a great and flexible way to associate similar tiddlers by topic or category. You can add tags to the tag window when you edit your tiddler. 3. *Save.* You can save your changes to Tiddlywiki by clicking the save button. If you are currently viewing TiddlyWiki at the official TiddlyWiki site, the save button will download a copy of your TiddlyWiki in its current state to your device. If you create a TiddlyWiki at TiddlySpot or Tiddlyspace, the save button will update the file at their server. If you are viewing a copy you have saved to your device, the save button will create a copy of your file. Either way, you can continue working without leaving the current file until you are ready to save again. *(I know this isn't working right yet, at least not for me. But if I understand TW5, this description approximates the final goal)* 4. *Fetch.* Are your notes buried in a closed tiddler somewhere in TiddlyWiki? Not to worry! You can use the lightning fast search window to search for tiddlers. Or you can peruse the various lists of all tiddlers by title, by date, and by tags. You can even create your own custom lists of tiddlers using our powerful tiddler filters. Once you’ve got the hang of TiddlyWiki note-taking basics, you will want to discover the many ways TiddlyWiki can be adapted to meet your needs: 5. *Add functionality.* Why be content with plain old notes, when you have an ever-expanding selection of free plugins and widgets at your fingertips to supercharge your notes? There are plugins for calendars, to-do lists, lightboxes, and much, much more. In a tab soon to be determined, you will find a link to our collection of goodies, at a location yet to be determined. You can add each goody to your TiddlyWiki by simply dragging and dropping it into your file. 6. *Customize.* We also have an expanding collection of visual themes, so you can change the colors, fonts and layout of your TiddlyWiki. In a tab yet to be determined, open the link to the location also yet to be determined. Add themes simply by dragging and dropping them into your file, then clicking on that theme in the theme picker in the tools tab. 7. *Take advantage of the power of editions. (need to work on this) * *8. **Share and publish your content. (need to work on this) * -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
