Hi Stephen, 1. What were you looking for when you first found Tiddlywiki? > > After my retirement in 2006 I started searching for something better than Word for documenting the history of the western part of Amsterdam (my birthplace). Professionally I had been using RoboHelp, a help authoring tool which can create WebHelp (set of HTML files) and/or Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (*.CHM file). In RoboHelp you can create "topics" (comparable with tiddlers) which can be linked to each other, while the main structure can be made with a Table of Contents. So in first instance I started searching for a (less costly, preferably freeware) alternative for RoboHelp. The ones I found were too limited and/or not user friendly. Then I started searching for wiki software and found TiddlyWiki. I was attracted by:
1) No additional software required; everything was in the TiddlyWiki file (HTML + JavaScript). Only a browser was required for using it 2) It creates a single file 3) It was highly configurable (I saw a lot of nice TWs around) In 2007 I started with TiddlyWiki. And although the learning curve was steep (I did know a little bit of HTML, but nothing of CSS and Javascript) it was really fun to explore the possibilities and customize my TW. I learned a lot from tutorials and resources (to name a few: TiddlyWiki for the rest of us by Dave Gifford, TW Help by Morris Gray, TiddlyTools by Eric Shulman, ...) and from the posts in the google group(s). > > 2. Was there anything about the program, the eco-system, whatever, that > frustrated you nearly to the point of giving up on it? > No, never. 3. What made you stick with the program? > > The endless possibilities. I started with my documentation project about Amsterdam and this was (and is) a straightforward TW (only using tags for the writing process itself). Lateron it became clear that you could do far more by intelligently using tags and filters for storing and retrieving information (e.g. tagglytagging). TW5 was a complete new experience with tags and fields more prominent available. I started experimenting with TW5 at the end of September 2013 (alpha10). Since I missed a few things in the layout I got used to in TiddlyWiki Classic, I started with modifying the layout of TW5. To share my knowledge, I made a few guides about these 'modifications'. The guides started as a non-linear personal web notebook (yeah, the subtitle of TiddlyWiki!). I started experimenting with layout things and used TW5 to document my experiments. Cheers, Ton -- 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.
