Although it's not quite on topic any more: I found TiddlyWiki when Nathan Bowers' GTDTiddlyWiki adaptation (this was before plugins -- yes kids, I'm that old) got covered by Lifehacker in this article: http://lifehacker.com/210354/get-organized-with-gtdtiddlywiki
I think a lot of interest in TW came from that Lifehacker story and its GTD connection. At the time I didn't give a crap about GTD but was super interested in TW. It was months later before Simon and I got involved with GTD, and Simon started making what would become MonkeyGTD, then mGSD. Anyway the lessons there for winning new users are maybe: - find a clear, real-world use case (or more than one) and show how TW satisfies that use - approach blogs and review sites and ask for coverage, or even better write a story yourself and ask blog/review sites to publish it or adapt it - go to the trouble to do pretty screenshots, and be MUCH less technical than you want to be And to return to the topic: Even having a share-a-tiddler feature isn't a usecase, it's just a feature. You'd have to show how it makes "activity X" awesome / possible / fun / useful. Cheers D On 25 November 2014 at 11:53, RichShumaker <richshuma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Erwan for your reply. > > If I could make something go viral I would have done it with Tiddlywiki > almost a decade ago. > I have always used it as an individual and have told everyone I can about > it as it is one of the most useful things I have ever used. > It is amazing and thanks again Jeremy for spending your time on it for all > these years. > > In regards to needing more time for documentation, coding, creating new > and better features, I don't disagree. > That doesn't mean we don't work on creating the next level of awareness. > Ask your neighbor if he knows what TiddlyWiki is, and then ask him if he > Tweets. > > The goal of this thread was not to make TW5 viral, it is to make TW5 > social. > I feel once TW5 is social it would go viral quickly after that. > By social I mean, Share My Tiddler, Help me with My Tiddler, Show me your > TiddlyWiki Tiddlers. > > That is why I asked if TW5 has adopted any existing social linking like @ > and # in another post. > TiddlyWiki has had # before there were #. > > So if we had all the features we wanted. > If we had all the documentation we wanted. > We had all the things we wanted in TiddlyWiki. > > What would you do next? > For me, as a long time user, TiddlyWiki has no social presence and I think > it would become a whole new boatload of awesome if it did. > Not Web Presence but TiddlyWiki the best notebook you don't own, could be > the best social notebook that nobody owns. > > I still think it will crash servers as people will love using it, #heheh. > > Rich Shumaker > > On Monday, November 24, 2014 4:57:19 PM UTC-8, Erwan wrote: > >> >> Hi Rich, >> >> I understand your desire to make TW5 go viral, but I'm afraid I have to >> disagree on the timing: in my opinion we shouldn't rush into that, because >> currently the documentation is not very user-friendly, and Jeremy is still >> working on various things that will make TW even greater. This is why I >> think that a "viral wave" arriving too soon would be a bad thing: a lot of >> people would discard it because it's unfinished, because it doesn't have a >> variety of nice themes to propose, because of the lacks in the >> documentation... and once they would have made their mind they would >> probably never come back, even if eventually TW5 would have fulfilled their >> dreams ;) >> >> Regards >> Erwan >> >> >> >> On 25/11/14 00:04, RichShumaker wrote: >> >> Thanks Jed and Mat, >> >> My idea is pretty simple but complicated to explain as I have tried >> twice already and it was too 'technical' to see what I was thinking about. >> >> So I am going to do an elevator pitch to Angel Investors instead. >> [[My Awesome TiddlyWiki Site(TM)]] allows people to share Tiddlers. >> What's a Tiddler? >> A Tiddler is a single idea that can have pictures, words, sounds, and >> video, basically anything you can think of can be a Tiddler. >> You have heard of Wikipedia right? Well a Tiddler is just like a >> Wikipedia page. >> >> The cool thing is that you can share that Tiddler with your friends, >> family, and the world. >> Also you can create your own TiddlyWiki's which are where you store your >> Tiddlers. >> So if you like Bass Fishing you can have a whole TiddlyWiki on Bass >> Fishing. >> >> Now for the really awesome part. >> You find someone else who likes Bass Fishing and you can 'Grab a Tiddler' >> from them. >> Or if you like a Tiddler(Yours or Others) you can 'Share' it on Social >> Media just like any Article from the NY Times to YouTube Videos. >> Tweet that Tiddler to the World if you want. >> >> So instead of 'Pinning' things or 'Liking' things you can 'Tiddler' >> things. >> >> That is the end of the pitch. >> Let me know what you think about the pitch. >> >> I was not trying to work out the bugs and kinks of the technical >> details needed to make this happen. >> I just see an opportunity for TW5 to fill a Social Need that goes beyond >> Pinning and Liking. >> What would be cool would be to see how people expand on an idea you have >> as you can 'Change the Tiddler' once you grab it. >> >> Right now in Social Media it is very SnapShot. You take a picture of >> something and Pin or Like it, you don't expand on it. >> TiddlyWiki gives you the ability to expand and allows for excellent >> feedback loops. >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- > 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. > -- Daniel Baird objoke: I had a problem and decided to solve it with threading. 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