(Long post) I've been going back and forth between dGSD and tbGTD in trying to put together my own TiddlyWiki to suit my needs. But I'm having trouble.
First, an explanation: I'd honestly like my tiddly wiki to handle all of my stuff- 1. Tasks, projects, goals and ToDos sorting Organization and browsing, 2. Essay, fiction, and blog writing (and organizationg, sorting, and browsing of those things), 3. Bookmarks, 4. Book/reading list list, 5. Note taking, 6. Budgeting and shopping lists, 7. Contacts 8. General life management and sorting 9. Journaling 10. Etc. Now, I've been spending quite a lot of time lately exploring tiddlywiki and plugins, and I love some things about dGSD and some things about tbGTD, which happen to be mutually exclusive in their current implementations, but not in theory (I think). In tbGTD, I love the general layout (the sidebars, and various toolbars, as well as VisualTW's Tiddlers Bar), sorting, and browsing ability. I also love the transparency and modifiability of its very well commented and documented layout. You can find anything from any angle, quickly In dGSD, I love two things primarily: 1. the ability to tag stuff before beginning to edit, especially with that beautiful layout with buttons and toggle buttons, different based on which template of new tiddler you've chosen. 2. When viewing the lists of items like actions in the dashboards, you have buttons next to each one letting you mark as done, mark as next, starred, etc. and even delete it, without having to go open up the tiddler. The weaknesses of each, for me, happen to be the strengths of the other. tbGTD can't tag before creating and saving a new tiddler, or at all while editing, and doesn't have that cool visual layout for it either. dGSD is much much too task focused for me, at the expense of browsability and usability beyond tasks and the other built-in features (like the great book list). Both are fantastic. I can't exclaim this enough. The interrelated and hierarchical tagging, and GTD implementation, etc are simply amazing. dGSD fits very well (much better than tbGTD) with how I would like to create items, whereas tbGTD fits very well with how I would like to view, browse and sort items (much better than dGSD except for the functionality in dGSD noted above, about the buttons while viewing tasks). And there's my problem. Long story short, I've been trying to extract the functionality from one and put it into the other, (both directions), but dGSD is so complicated and interwoven (and most of which seems undocumented), that I can't pull the stuff out of it without breaking it upon arrival in the other tiddliwiki, or breaking dGSD when I try to modify *it*. I've tried modifying tbGTD, dGSD, and at this point, I've been trying to piece it together from the ground up. This actually seems like the most attractive option, because I could eliminate older, deprecated stuff in favor of newer stuff, especially Tobias Beer's more recent plugins, like Pager, Listr, Filtr, ListFiltr, Findr, TagFiltr, TagSearch, Slidr, and x-plore. Sadly, it's hard to know where there is overlap, redundancy, outdatedness, etc in plugins. I've made a boatload of progress on my own, after many hours and days of both discovery, frustration, but I've hit a brick wall now. I can't code, but in my determination to do this, I've learned quite a bit of CSS and HTML (still clueless on a lot of it though). Even though I don't have a job, (but I will have one soon,) I can pay someone $20 worth of Bitcoin to help me accomplish this. I know it's not much, but I can also tell you that I'll pay another $30 or $40 in a few weeks once I have income, maybe more. If you don't know how to use Bitcoin, it's actually pretty easy to get started at Coinbase.com. My email is [email protected]. Cheers, Leo -- 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.
