As far as the request for linear documentation and tutorials is concerned, I would like to put in my humble support for the idea. I consider myself a medium level user in classic tiddlywiki. I have dabbled into javascript and tried (successfully) adding some useful functionality into my personal TWs. I have tried tweaking css and layout also. I thought that after my background I would be able to pickup TW5 quite easily. But unfortunately its not so. I haven't been able to figure much about TW5 yet. I am sure information is out there, but its not available at one place in a linear fashion.
On Sunday, January 5, 2014 6:31:11 AM UTC+5:30, Leo Staley wrote: > > 1. First, I want to point out how Awesome I think y'all's work here on > Tiddlywiki is. On a scale of 1-10, you go up to eleven. Because of the > miscellaneous nature of my comments and questions here, I'm just tossing > them all in the regular group; i hope it doesn't rustle anybody's jimmies. > (So y'all know, I'm looking to use Tiddlywiki as a Personal Information > Manager, > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_personal_information_managers>and > a word processor and organizer for writing the multifarious types of > writing that I do. I would consider myself an bottom intermediate level > internet user, though, from your perspective, I may be no higher than a low > beginning level.) > > 2. So a few years ago, I was asking around a bit, and In a thread, Autosave, > Revision History, and the > Cloud<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!search/autosave$20revision$20history$20and$20the$20cloud/tiddlywiki/Z0IWQ743ToY/ndaUNEqTqL0J>. > > This eventually led me to giewiki, by Poul > Staugaard<https://plus.google.com/u/0/109538188690115896306?prsrc=4>, > which I've been using ever since. > > Is there any way to make Tiddly5 autosave copies while you're working in > it, like giewiki does, so that, if my computer suddenly shut off, I > wouldn't lose most of my work? I have a habit of saving often, but it seems > that tragedies strike just on those occasions where I have forgotten to > save for the last 45 minutes of brilliant work. I use Sugarsync, an AWESOME > cloud service, which solves my cloud problems, but what about keeping > revision history of tiddlers in Tiddly5? > > 2.5 ( I was going to ask about Permalinks, but I found that you already > addressed that in a question recently). > > 3. At Jeremy's suggestion from answering my question the other day, I was > trying to figure out how to do transclusion of tiddler contents into a > tiddler, but the documentation led me to the tiddler on "Tiddler Templates" > which had ... nothing there. Help? I found some of the documentation on > Tiddlywki.org, but I'm still not sure I understand what I need to know for > how how to use Tiddler Templates. Would anybody be able to provide some > pre-built tiddler templates, so that I, a novice and a moron, wouldn't need > to make my own, crappy ones? And also tell me how to access them, etc? > > 4. Speaking of which, the GTD templates/apps. From what I can gather, > Tiddly5 is implementing a lot of the functionality and features introduced > by apps like dGSD and tbGTD, which is splendid! But, again, my greatest > need is the pre-packaged layout and setup. How would one migrate the dGSD > or tbGTD contents into Tiddly5? Has anybody built any GTD stuff using > Tiddly5 yet? > > 5. Tagging. I realize that Tagging is one of the most powerful and robust > features of Tiddlywiki. That's the problem. There's SO much functionality, > I don't know how to use enough of it to use any of it effectively. Like > many people, I do great if I can see many examples, and learn by copying > and tweaking them, but with Tiddlywiki, I have to figure everything out > from the ground up, which is REALLY hard. :( Some more linear education > would be great. It's so easy to be researching, and accidentally wander > into an area much more advanced than my level, and then I start getting > confused, because I needed other information before I should have looked at > that advanced page. My humble, *humble *request is that you take some > time away from development and put it into documentation. Please take this > as the lone voice among thousands of things you have to consider, not as > the unreasonable demand of an irrelevant novice. I understand why a man > needs to make sacrifices in his priorities, because he has to consider so > many things and do so much in so little time for so many people. > > 6. *In Tiddlywiki terms, *What's the difference between a widget, plugin, > a script, a macro, a formula, a module, a template, a theme, a system tag, > and an app? (did I miss any?) and which of these things, when taken from > TWC are most likely to be compatible with Tiddly5, which has such a > radically different core structure? > > 7. Finally, I feel like I would much rather use Tiddlywiki as my blogging > platform than Wordpress or Blogger, But how might I seemlessly integrate > adwords or something similar? (this question is a low priority for now, > just tossing it out here because it came to me.) > > -Thank you very much, > > Leo Staley > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
