Andreas, I agree with some of what you say, but I think you are addressing a completely different question. The discussion in the hangout was about understanding the users with a view to targeting the documentation, not about what TW is good/bad at.
You are arguing that there aren't use cases, but I assume you have your own ones or you wouldn't be hanging around this forum, and the same applies to everyone here (I currently have about four use cases). I do agree however that it can be difficult to see the use cases until you have already explored tiddlywiki a bit. Tiddlywiki.com could do with more of a use-case gallery to inspire potential users with the possiblities. I think the Excel analogy is a good one. The first time I ever encountered a spreadsheet, it seemed like it would be of little use for anything beyond adding up columns of numbers. Now I use spredsheets for all sorts of complicated things, and all sorts of really basic things too. Similarly, I originally viewed TW as just a note-taking platform with limited functionality (but the benefit of being non-proprietary). But as with spreadsheet, the built-in complexity meant that the answer to the question of 'what is it for?' turned out to be 'just about anything'. That in itself is a benefit - you can learn one tool to be able to do a whole range of things that you would otherwise have to learn half a dozen tools for. Each alternative tool might do one job better than TW, but an individual can achieve more by concentrating on just one tool to do many tasks. By the way, I very much disagree with your assertion that everyone can be a TW pro in a couple of days. The large majority of real people will never have the skills to become a TW pro. Even among the tiny self-selecting group of people who might try to learn TW, I think a couple of days is ambitious. I am technically smart by anyone's standards, but I was baffled by the complexities of wikitext for quite a considerable time before I found a way in (I think the documentation may have progressed a bit since then, but still...). Cheers, Neil. -- 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.
