On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:34:29 AM UTC-5, adil wrote: > > > Hi, I'm trying to find an app to manage some notes, etc. and discovered > TW. I have some questions that will help me decide to adopt it: > > 1) I see the TW5 is being developed. Should I wait a little bit so that > it's complete and start with TW5 instead of the current version? Or is TW5 > currently usable. >
TW classic has been around for years and there are numerous plugins (think apps) for it, whereas TW5 is new and is limited in that way. But TW5 is getting better almost by the day. > > 2) Since AFAIK TW stores everything in one file, will things get > annoyingly slow as the size of information in there grows? Say you're > writing a book and have notes that amount to about several hundred pages > (on a regular print book). Would that become an unmanageable, really slow > file? > Both TW classic and TW5 can handle large sums of info. There are some tweaks in classic to overcome that - mainly ditching some lists of tiddlers that refresh every time a tiddler is added or edited, which can freeze things up once the lists get long. I haven't played around with 5 long enough to know how well it will respond. As Jeremy mentioned, I managed to stuff a 5 file with images so that it was about 80MB. Still runs fine, opens a little slow, and the image gallery I created opens slowly, but it works. Several hundreds of pages of text won't stuff it that heavy though. > > 3) The original empty TW file offered on the website doesn't have a great > look. I found some themes but I'm not sure if just saving them in firefox > (save as ... (complete page / HTML / etc.?) will work. How do I find and > download nice themes (I know I can customize but have no CSS/PHP/HTML > knowledge and am willing to just adopt any decent looking theme). > Browse http://giffmex.tiddlyspot.com/ and open the link for TW classics you like, and steal their StyleSheet and ColorPalette (some may be dead). Some themes may have other tiddlers you need to swipe too. > > Many thanks! > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
