Hi Stephen I have accumulated a large volume of notes over the years covering all the subjects I have been interested in (including Open University courses I have taken). I have tried many different types of software to both store these and easily show cross-links between different subjects - all were flawed in some serious way. TW was the first software (which I only came on by chance just over a year ago) which does this.
Early frustrations: the learning curve is quite steep, though it is very powerful once you get some competence in using it. Giving up ?: No, I almost immediately recognised that it was more suited to my needs than anything else available, so I stuck with it. Apart from answering your specific questions, I should say that I think your initiative is very useful. If I have a criticism of TW, I think it lacks a good understanding of its users and their needs. I am not in any way suggesting that it has to change - I simply think that greater information on user's needs would make the documentation more effective in appealing to new potential users. There are some very sophisticated uses of TW illustrated in the Community section of the website but they may all seem daunted by potential users. Maybe there should be more emphasis on a progression from simple use cases to the more complex. Best wishes Howard On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 7:52:01 PM UTC, Stephen Kimmel wrote: > > I am especially interested in the "New User" experience and at the moment > the specific question is what attracts people to Tiddlywiki in the first > place. We were all new users once and while we may not be representative of > the typical new user... I figure anyone who has even found this group is a > fairly advanced computer user in general... our answers may offer some > useful insights. > > So... > > 1. What were you looking for when you first found Tiddlywiki? > > In my case, I was looking for a wiki that was simple, didn't require a > specialized set-up and could fit on a USB flash drive. > > 2. Was there anything about the program, the eco-system, whatever, that > frustrated you nearly to the point of giving up on it? > > In my case, the documentation at the time was almost more than I could > handle. Even figuring out how to Underline and Bold text seemed to require > wading through a pile of documentation that seemed to be written by geeks > for geeks. > > 3. What made you stick with the program? > > Ultimately for me it was the fact there was ongoing support and > development. The competitive products seemed on the verge of dying or were > dead products already. > > I would like to see answers to my three questions from several folks and I > would also like to hear from whoever it was who used Tiddlywiki in a > classroom setting. How did it go with the students? > > > -- 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.
