On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:29:01 PM UTC-7, Tobias Beer wrote: > > This should get you going with reusing tidbits accross TiddlyWikis rather > than synchronizing... > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/tiddlywiki/rQz8aDt76vQ > > Cheers, Tobias. > Oh boy! Yes, I'll look at that. I'm really enjoying getting started with tiddlywiki. But the learning curve, once you get past simple wiki markup, is rather steep. And it is somewhat hard to find information on one's own even given the multitude of help wikis, plus this group. So I truly appreciate the answers I've been getting over the past couple of days from you (and others) here in this group. I don't want to seem a complainer - as I said I'm really getting going with using tiddlywiki - but ... here's a viewpoint from a newbie: You know, the main issue a newbie has in approaching tiddlywiki at this time is that it has grown continuously and organically over a number of years and the information is now somewhat spread out. And, in addition, it is subject to bit rot. (For example, download the empty 2.8.1 tiddlywiki, go to the examples tiddler, and see how many of those links no longer work.) Help content that is linked to is missing in some cases. Some plugins no longer work properly. And so on. A second issue is that there is a somewhat unique technical vocabulary associated with tiddlywiki and I have yet to find a glossary. (E.g., what is 'transclusion'? What is a 'slice'?) A lot of the help that exists is rather reference-oriented rather than tutorial-oriented - the tutorials seem to stop after simple wiki markup. And finally, some things that should work don't really work - at least for me. I've yet to be able to import a plugin from any standard site, I get "CORS" errors, whatever they are. (By the way, I've seen this issue before: The Squeak (Smalltalk) community has the same issues, and worse, and for the same reason: Continual development and improvement.) I guess, from my POV, the two biggest improvements that could be made are a) to curate some of the bitrot/linkrot in the principle points of entry - especially the empty tiddlywiki, and b) to promote the development and distribution of some intermediate tutorials. I'd like to contribute to an effort like that. I think I will, ultimately, write one or more intermediate tutorials focused on some issues as I progress up the learning curve. Anyway ... again, please don't think I'm a big complainer ... I'm working hard to develop tiddlywiki skills and habits ... and I mention all this to encourage you, and others, to answer questions on this forum! Because it is really helpful! Thanks! -- David
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