Thanks so much! responses inline. On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 7:57:20 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > 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]<javascript:> > > 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. > >> >> You could have options for limited and/or "smart" version history?
> 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<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FJermolene%2FTiddlyWiki5%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Feditions%2Ftw5.com%2Ftiddlers%2Fconcepts%2FTemplateTiddlers.tid&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH0xYiIuc2WxWy7SDlbUd7Oj3B2Iw> > > Oh, how splendid! Terrific! Will that be anywhere on the site? > >> 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 > >> >> I forgot to add "transclusion" :) Specifically, I'm not quite clear on the difference between a transclusion and a macro. Have a great day! > 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> 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] <javascript:> > -- 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]. 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