In my experience it depends on your newbie. People who are more familiar with Microsoft Word documents and Explorer/Finder seem to find the single file TW incarnation very easy to work with, while people who live on online services like Google Docs, Tumblr or Facebook definitely find TiddlySpace conceptually much easier to handle.
Whichever incarnation they start with, I find quite often it's good to close lesson 1 at the point where they can create tiddlers and then search for them. It sounds trivial to stop before getting to tags, wikilinks, macros etc. but just having a bag of notes that you can search across goes a long way. For me it's quite interesting when people later say, "oh, and can I..." and then reel off the kind of more advanced requests that are familiar from this group. Best wishes Jeremy On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend expressed interest in TW and I promised to e-mail him some info. > > I'm always afraid people get overwhelmed when they take look at TW because > the whole tiddlyverse has grown so complex. Especially if they're not > hackers - which I don't think he is, but then neither am I. He works as a > teacher btw. > . > "Flavor wise" (for lack of better term) I'm thinking of only bringing up > TW classic (and tiddlywiki.com) and TS. And I think post-it notes > ("programmable if you wish") are a fair analogy to tiddlers. And of course > I'll mention this group. No mention of tiddlyspot, tiddlytools, TW5 or > other "concepts" to begin with. > > IMO the smoothest start is probably to create a space on TS. > > Thoughts? What would you do? I'll suggest he reads this thread, btw. > > <:-) > > -- > 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. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
