Hi Leo I'm sorry to be hearing about your frustrations, but very grateful for your feedback, it's incredibly useful.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Leo Staley <[email protected]> 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.) > Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated. > 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. > Autosave is planned for TW5 but not implemented yet. I use Sugarsync, an AWESOME cloud service, which solves my cloud problems, > but what about keeping revision history of tiddlers in Tiddly5? > I would certainly like to extend the Node.js version to keep a tiddler version history, but am not so convinced that it's worth doing in the standalone version - file sizes will get pretty large. > > 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? > I've added some docs for 5.0.7: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/concepts/TemplateTiddlers.tid > > 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? > James Weaver is working on a GTD-like system based on TW5. > 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. > Yours is not a lone voice. I do struggle with the documentation, as you can tell. My goal with tw.com is to have authoritative reference material, and a reasonable guide to getting started. I think there will always be a place for external user guide material, though, because what's needed is often different for different audiences. We're already starting to see that with Stephan Hradek, Dave Gifford and Chris Hunt all contributing significant external documentation (see the Community tiddler on tiddlywiki.com for links). > > 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? > Most of the things that you list are included amongst the items tagged "concepts" on tiddlywiki.com. I'll give quick answers for this context: Widgets express dynamic and interactive functionality Plugins are bundles of tiddlers that can be delivered and updated as a single unit The word "script" isn't used in a special sense with TiddlyWiki A macro is a way of defining chunks of text which can be inserted with a brief reference A module is a tiddler containing executable JavaScript A template: see above! A theme is a type of plugin that determines the visual appearance of TiddlyWiki. Only one theme can be active at a time A system tag is a tag that starts with $:/ App: I'm not sure that there's a specific meaning within the TiddlyWiki world > > 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.) > Integrating adwords should be pretty straightforward, you may well not even need a plugin, Best wishes Jeremy > > -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 [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. 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