I should add: *One weakness* Tiddlywiki has, in light of this, is the mass and group manipulation of said organized data. *It's difficult to re-organize any of that data/information on large scales.* This is a weakness that some plugins have helped solve, but not completely.
On Friday, April 25, 2014 12:09:39 AM UTC-7, Leo Staley wrote: > > 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 [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/d/optout.
