I've been thinking about this. It isn't a wiki software, it's something else.
It's like a strange mix between a blog platform, a wiki platform, evernote, and... I can't quite put my finger on it. But here's what I think: *First *it is a *data/information organizing software*. I would argue that, at the user level, Tagging is the most revolutionary, unique, valuable feature of Tiddlywiki, and it blows OneNote, Evernote, etc, out of the water. People use it as novel writing software, or as Getting Things Done and task management software, and so on, because those have lots of information and lots of bits of information that need organizing. And, Even though tagging functionality in other programs is cool and useful, because of the way that Tiddlers are Tags and Tags are Tiddlers, the organizational power Tiddlywiki has is phenomenal. This is why some of the most popular plugins are those which make tagging easier and more intuitive and fluid. One of the great values here is that there is very little limit on the type of data or information one wants to organize. Anything you can put into a tiddler, can be organized, and more. *Second, *it is an* information viewing/navigating software*. Tiddlywiki (plus the right plugins) empowers not only the act of organizing data/information, *But also *viewing/Navigating it. Linking between tiddlers with quick easy wikitext, displayed as a straightforward hyperlink in view mode, is one of the great strengths tiddlywiki has over other note taking software. This is why plugins which facilitate organized display of tiddlers (and page elements) are so popular. It's also why ForEachTiddler is so popular: It helps tiddlers, which have been organized in such-and-such a way, be displayed in this way or that. You can find information that you've placed in the Tiddlywiki via numerous browsing methods, not just searches, like other programs emphasize. *Third, *It is a* document creation platform*. Tiddly wiki makes it so easy to create new "documents" very quickly, without lots of extra visual fluff, mouse-clicks for formatting, and other distractions, while offering a decently robust set of actual formatting options. One can quickly make a document, of various kinds, and as big or as small as one needs or wants, and then organize it in relation to all of one's other documents. I want to create a couple of dynamic lists for something I need to keep track of? Tiddlywiki (plus the right plugins) can do it. I want to write a novel, with one chapter per tiddler, linked together via tags, with other tiddlers with notes supporting them? Tiddlywiki (plus the right plugins) can do it. I want to write code? Tiddlywiki (plus the right plugins) can do it. *Fourth *What it's not: Despite being displayed in a browser, it's* not really a website creation software.* The inability of search engines to effectively search in a Tiddlywiki is what makes this one so iron-clad. If it IS a website creation software, it's terrible at it. -- What do you think? -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
