Thanks Daniel & Richard, I haven't seen the TiddlyQuickly site, so I'll have a read. If I can figure this out before I get too frustrated, I may even write my own tutorial (unless it's reinventing the wheel, since it looks like there's a few people collaborating on this).
Amongst my many past times, I'm an online game designer, and I'm using the wiki to design a story-based non-linear game. An example is something like this: http://cinders.wikia.com/wiki/Cinders_Wiki <-- mind, that's the underlying structure, not the front end. What I need to do is change up the navigation, then add dialogue and plot archs that link to one another, etc. It shouldn't be that hard with base TiddlyWiki functionality. I have an older version of TW (not sure which it is) that I keep getting errors on upon opening. Thanks again for the help; I'll check out those sites. Warm regards, Elizabeth On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 2:35:32 PM UTC+10, Daniel Baird wrote: > > > > In addition to Richard Smith's comments, I think it's worth noting that > (in my estimation) TW5 is being build from the inside out -- technical > architecture first, then getting the fiddly inside bits right, then the > nice friendly bits will come on after. So I think it's okay for it to be > "unfriendly" now, where it expects you to twist some metaphorical wires > together to switch things on and off. > > My expectation is that in the near future, the (equally metaphorical) nice > carbon fibre panels and the dashboard with switches and dials gets added, > and there will be a much more pleasant "Initial Experience". > > If anything, the thing that's trickiest is that tiddlywiki.com goes to > tw5 and not the prior tw version. > > ;Daniel > > > > > On 6 August 2014 11:33, Elizabeth Blythe <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I just want to say thank you for all of the help. >> >> I also want to express that, while I honor the work that went into this - >> gosh, thank you for creating a project flexible, for free, for anyone >> walking along with an internet connection - I'm disappointed with some of >> the design choices in TW5. >> >> The thing I loved about TiddlyWiki to start off with was that it was in >> plain English, you didn't need to know how the wiki worked to tailor pretty >> much every aspect of it, you needed very little information about its >> structure (there were enough crumbs within the wiki itself to figure out or >> find anything you didn't know) within past TiddlyWikis that they had a lot >> of utility for non-tech people. I've been chipping away at TW5 for about >> four days now and have barely figured out how tags work. The documentation >> I'm reading doesn't really seem to help me figure out what I want to know, >> the TiddlyWiki itself reads like Greek, and I'm seriously worried that I >> will be unable to use TW5 for the project I had in mind. >> >> TW5 seems to have moved away from being a layman's highly configurable >> and transportable notebook - now, I need to find and use special >> characters, figure out where those things are and how they work, and >> actually get a help websites and group support to tell me how to do >> things... on the past TiddlyWikis that I used, I was up and running with >> really complex work in maybe thirty minutes at the outside, and I never had >> to join a community to get help. It let me focus on what I was using the >> wiki for, not have to learn how to use the wiki. >> >> Maybe I'm too impatient or something, I don't know, but I think >> TiddlyWiki5 went way right field of what made it appealing to the average >> Joe in the first place. It's a shame that IE, Firefox and Chrome these days >> seem to hate my older version of TiddlyWiki, so I can't use that either. >> >> Please understand that I don't mean any of the above to be intentionally >> nasty or over-critical; I just wanted to raise the point constructively for >> consideration. Like I said, I deeply appreciate the work that's gone into >> this, and that I even had the option of using TiddlyWiki. >> >> Thank you, >> - Elizabeth >> >> On Sunday, August 3, 2014 11:14:12 PM UTC+10, Ton Gerner wrote: >> >>> Hi Elizabeth, >>> >>> Have a look at [1] >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Ton >>> >>> [1] http://tw5custom.tiddlyspot.com/ >>> >>> On Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:38:29 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Elizabeth >>>> >>>> There's a list of system tags here: >>>> >>>> http://tiddlywiki.com/#SystemTags >>>> >>>> Best wishes >>>> >>>> Jeremy >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Elizabeth Blythe <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thank you, Richard! >>>>> >>>>> Is there a comprehensive list of system tags and what they do >>>>> somewhere? >>>>> >>>>> Once again, thank you! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, August 3, 2014 4:47:58 PM UTC+10, Richard Smith wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> You can add a tab to the sidebar by making a new Tiddler, eg; "Table >>>>>> of Contents" and giving it the tag $:/tags/SideBar. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Richard >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sunday, August 3, 2014 10:13:37 AM UTC+10, Elizabeth Blythe wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Greetings, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I used to use an older version of TiddlyWiki, so I'm used to being >>>>>>> able to define what goes into the navigation links (which are now on >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> right). I can't imagine this functionality has been removed... but I >>>>>>> can't >>>>>>> seem to find any HowTos on the website that tell me how to do this in >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> newest version of TiddlyWiki (or even TiddlyWiki Classic). It is most >>>>>>> likely a language barrier because there's a lot of jaron and content to >>>>>>> search through... anyway. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've spent last night and tonight trying to figure out how to modify >>>>>>> the navigation topics to insert the header, then sub navigation points >>>>>>> I >>>>>>> want. How do I do that? Is it no longer contained in a special system >>>>>>> tiddler? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for the help! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> - Elizabeth >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jeremy Ruston >>>> mailto:[email protected] >>>> >>> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Daniel Baird > objoke: I had a problem and decided to solve it with threading. 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