The main thing I'd like to say for the sake of general feedback is I am really liking TiddlyWiki5, and am very excited by what I'm seeing.
I've been a long time user and fan of TiddlyWiki (classic), TiddlyWeb, and TiddlySpace. Here are some thoughts from my recent use of TiddlyWiki5: The TiddlyWiki5 interface is, to me, a huge improvement. I think it looks great, and is very functional from an UI perspective. While I've always loved TiddlyWiki, I was never fully satisfied with the default appearance and layout of TiddlyWiki classic, and felt compelled to tweak the base appearance and layout. With TiddlyWiki5 I feel like I can pretty much just dive in and use it from the get go (and present it to other people)–the default theme, layout, text styles, etc., are clean and attractive. Elements of the UI that I'm appreciating from a workflow and usage point of view: - *The* *"Open" tab*: Having the list of open tiddlers makes it easy to jump between multiple tiddlers in the story. While editing one tiddler, I can quickly jump down to refer to another by clicking it in the list in the open tab, and then jump back to the one I was editing. - *Tags*: Adding multiple tags to tiddlers is quick and easy with the filterable tag list. They also look good, and the ability to easily give them a color is very nice. - *Search*: The immediate search-as-you-type function of the search box makes finding a tiddler a quicker task. The advanced search of Shadow and System tiddlers is a welcome addition that is a big help to tiddly hackers. - *Control Panel*: Lots of useful information here. The Advanced tab's comprehensive list of modules gives an overview of "what makes the wiki work." All the different types of js modules that provide core functionality and additional features. - *List widget and tiddler filters*: These clearly provide powerful functionality for creating dynamic self-updating lists of tiddlers (like the task management example). Writing complex lists is a real brain teaser, especially in the beginning while learning the concepts and associated syntax. Combining TiddlerFilters, nested lists, TextReferences and other concepts bring a lot of possibilities to the table. - *Snapshots:* when running as a server side app, this makes it easy to grab a standalone wiki in a single click. Those are a few of the frontend/UI highlights for me. There are quite a lot more, but I'll leave it at that for the moment. About running as a server side: - *Node.js / server side*:I always prefer to run my wiki using a server side component. I'm a big fan of TiddlyWeb / TiddlySpace so when the TW5 compatibility with TiddlyWeb is fleshed out I may switch to TW5 / TiddlyWeb. That may be my ultimate combination as TiddlyWeb provides robust user management and access controls, multiple storage adapters, and many other features. In the interim though, I really like "tiddlywiki node.js app" as the server side component as well, and I see various possibilities for cool functionality here. Having tiddlers stored as flat files is useful. An user on the TiddlyWikiDev group described how he is using git to version control the tiddler files and share the wiki between several machines. I had been thinking along those lines as well, and am now using git to synchronize my wiki between my computer and phone... - *Node.js / tiddlywiki on Android*: It's kind of amazing to see this working as well as it seems to. I wanted to run TiddlyWiki5 on my phone and be able to sync it with my computer. I think having tiddlers as separate files lends itself better to version control, so that led me to wanting to get node.js running on my phone. I was able to cross compile node.js for ARMv7, copy it to my phone, clone the TiddlyWiki5 git repo onto the phone, clone my wiki instance from my computer, and successfully run that TW5 instance on node.js on a Samsung Galaxy Note II. I haven't tested too much yet, but I opened localhost:8080 in chrome and I was able to browse around the wiki, and create and edit new tiddlers which were saved successfully to the file system. The UI appears to scale and layout nicely to a mobile screen size. The giant screen of the Note II helps too, and makes the wiki surprisingly readable/usable. Great work so far, I'm using TW5 daily and loving it. Oveek -- 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.
