Leo, first of all thank you very very much for all the kind words... It's truly appreciated.
Let's take this offline for a bit, I would like to see what progress you've made and have some back-and-forth discussion about how you see them blending (layout, functionality, etc.) and perhaps give you some perspective on how to "ignore" the GTD aspects of dGSD while you use it for other things. After that, we can work on getting perhaps a tabbed theme or some kind of tb-style layout made, and put the discussion back into the TiddlyWiki-GTD group, which would be a better place for it. Feel free to email me directly at [email protected] and we'll go from there. Cheers, David. On Thursday, 23 January 2014 21:14:25 UTC-5, Leo Staley wrote: > > (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]<javascript:>. > > > 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.
