I recall Reasoning Well [1] and Elise Springers TW [2] as a early and beautiful TWs. Both still look good today.
And wow! So fast! Alex [1] http://reasoningwell.tiddlyspot.com/ [2] http://espringer.web.wesleyan.edu/ On 9 March 2015 at 14:35, Peter Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the background on Scalar and the comparison guide -- good to > see Tw5 ticking important boxes. I have used VUE but not on a regular basis > and not recently. It was another tool that felt like it should have gained > more traction than it did. Hopefully TiddlyMap will provide something > similar in due course. > > bw > > Peter > > On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 10:16:50 PM UTC, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: >> >> 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, following 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. > -- 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.
