Hi, I got chance to have a poke at Scalar. My feeling is that, whilst they have some useful integrations with other services, their underlying platform is actually quite basic - essentially just a server-side wiki engine - and editing materials on the platform is quite tedious - just like making an online wiki from scratch.
Without wishing to tear into them too badly, I would say that TiddlyWiki 'out of the box' offers a number of advantages over their platform; - much quicker editing - ability to add content from anywhere (by many different means - drag and drop, bulk importing, iframe inclusion, tiddlyclip etc.) - serverless and self-contained -- platform independent -- 'future proof' -- works offline - content can be included internally or linked to externally (local or remote) - extensible (through plugins/wikitext) - easy to maintain multiple projects and move content between them - greater flexibility of overall design and structure Having said that, there are some useful things we might be able to gleen from the design decisions they have made in an attempt to provide a clear experience to their users, although they only seem to have produced 5 books in 4 years... The really important topic that they highlight is 'content metadata', which is going to be very important in educational tech in the future. I'm very interested in the standards and formats that they are using and will do more research into it, folowing some of the links out of their site. Thanks again for the recommendation. If you haven't seen it before, you may also be interested in 'Visual Understanding Environment' from tufts university - I have found it very useful for organising complicated information: http://vue.tufts.edu/ Regards, Richard -- 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.
