I created something I called the Dream Machine, a machine to help you reach your dreams. I was using something called Blast Wiki and needed a real multimedia notebook.
BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE and in walked TiddlyWiki. I love the stealth idea of creating knowledge and letting or sending it to people wrapped in a TiddlyWiki wrapper. Here is my recipe, oh and I included everything you need to know about making this crazy recipe. Rich Shumaker On Monday, November 24, 2014 3:31:39 PM UTC-8, Mat wrote: > > Free associations... > > Use TW to make, eg. spectacular christmas cards or other complex > documents, for lack of a better term. No tiddlers that are irrelevant for > the reciver are accessible. A very limited TW. How is this different form > an email or a word document? Because with TW can send a christmas card that > has, say, three hyperlinked pages (tiddlers!) that embed, say, a youtube > video with you greeting them, another tiddler with a poem, another where > they can tick of things in the kids wishlist, another where ...whatever > crazy stuff TW can do. > > The unsuspecting non-tiddlywikian, thinks it's just a very cool thing > you've somehow put togehter. Little do they know it's a TW where almost > everything is hidden! No sidebar, no search - and no tiddler title unless > necessary, for sure no visible tags or toolbar. Perhaps a theme where > tiddlers have no frames so the text or whatever is shown seems to be it and > all. > > ...but of course, there could be a little innocent shadow of a cat that > says "Powered by TiddlyWiki" for those analytically minded who actually > want to know. > > The next PM you send out to the others at your work place doesn't have to > be a word document. It can be a "wow, some kind of hyperlinked page where > you can jumpt to only the interesting stuff". Using sliders to get really > consice texts but with the possibility to dive deeper for anyone > interested. Hupp, a table of contents made from... are those links!? Hm, is > that embedded music thing with "Workin' 9 to 5" supposed to inspire us? > > Jeremys latest(?) video uses, I believe, the Cecily theme for a > presentation that you can barely believe is TW. You click a thing and stuff > zoom in and move around, but in a defined sequence. Takes the viewer along > for a ride really. > > Have your unsuspecting friend draw a monkey face "for a competition" > [drawing feature in TW5]... he clicks a button and a body appears under his > drawing with his name on the t-shirt. Maybe possible by transcluding it to > above another tiddler with the body drawing. > > What's this file titled "Cooking with Mat"? Hm, it's a recipe... but with > some kind of links in it, whoa that chefs hat sure looks stupid on him... > And look, links for "Spicy version, Mild version and Just right version" > Whats this - "to do while waiting for the oven to get hot.. Game of Zork- > what??" (Hey, look, there's [a picture of] me and I'm in some maze supposed > to find a key!" Or how about forcing them to figure out the game to get > some necessary information in the recipe? > > Why? For fun. But also for spreading TW. > > Maybe there could be ready made templates for this? We have an ever > expanding collection of Magic Christmas Card templates, made in TW with > predefined format, some static background images and some empty frames for > personal images. Or other greeting cards. Collections of recipe TW's. "Mini > TW templates".... Categorized collections on, perhaps, tw.com (better be > good then!) > > By the way, this latter idea (templates) is one example of what I refer to > as "content" and "topics" in TW's in this thread > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/K9O5eBkIuW0> where I, > with the help of Tobias, outline another concept. Note, it's not the > iframes ideas that are relevant here (altho that really is interesting - > check out Tobias creations!) but it is the bit about "lists" and "meta > data" a few posts down. Or, maybe iframes woudl be perfect here? It could > be a window to wherever you want. Some site you update? Again, wish lists > where they can see "what is left to buy"? Or a Halloween card made to scare > the sh't out of people; an iframe to a secret camera you've placed in their > kitchen where they are likely to read the card and see themselves!! (Yes, I > have friends, why are you asking?) > But, as I said, the thread there shifts over to another idea. I may go a > bit banans towards the end, but it was late and I was tired. Besides, I > like bananas. > > Obviously all part of the "TiddlyWiki bigger than Google within 6 months" > license agreement you signed when downloading TW. > > > <:-) > > -- 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.
