just wondering, do you view the workflowy instance from within TW5 using iframes, or just open a new tab to work in?
On Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 9:04:35 PM UTC-6, David Gifford wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Just wanted to note that I have been integrating TiddlyWiki and Workflowy > quite well. Each one counteracts the shortcomings of the other. I use a > central TW to create a tag based hierarchy of topic tiddlers. And the > tiddlers contain no text, only links to the corresponding articles in > Workflowy. If a given topic would be better served by a TiddlyWiki (i.e., > embedded images, wiki links and more control over the page style and text > formatting), I create a TW and link to it from the central TW. > > Why this approach? > > 1. Workflowy is better for free writing and rearranging as I write. It is > a writing tool. It allows me to work far faster than TW ever could. By > contrast, putting asterisks for bulleted lists or @@ for indenting, etc, > takes me out of the zone when writing in TW. So I write my actual content > in Workflowy. > 2. Workflowy is also infinitely scaleable. No concern about ever hitting a > filesize ceiling. And no need to create multiple TiddlyWikis and have to > manage them. > 3. But tagging, listing and filtering are much nicer in TiddlyWiki. There > is no tool like TiddlyWiki for showing relationships between topics > (tiddlers) like TiddlyWiki. > 4. And the search in TW is so fast and flexible compared to pretty much > anything out there. By contrast, searching in Workflowy, even when using > its tag system, turns up reams of irrelevant stuff, because topic titles > are not distinguished from content in WF as they are in TW. > > So when I have even something small worth saving, I create a topic tiddler > and tag it, and in the edit template I have a link to open up the notes > section of my Workflowy. I write the note or article or outline or whatever > it is in Workflowy, then grab the link from the browser bar (every single > bullet in WF has its own URL), and paste it into the still open tiddler. If > the topic already has a tiddler with a link to that topic in WF, I open > that tiddler and open the WF link there and add the note there. Pretty > quick system. > > So now I have a virtually infinite CMS using one central TW, a WF account, > and the occasional topical TW file here and there. Filesize is irrelevant > because the tiddlers in the central TW only have one link in them, and > maybe one or two tags. The system is easy for inductive dumping and tagging > when I find something worth saving in my reading and browsing, and is also > easy for writing a longer article or project in WF and wanting to find it > quickly using TW, and is also easy for a more deductive process of creating > a hierarchy from above with new here buttons then adding WF links later. > > $50/yr may seem steep for the pro account of WF, but I have found it well > worth it. Here is a shared section of my Workflowy with more information: > https://workflowy.com/s/VQgA01nJMn > > As you can tell, this system doesn't require much on the TW end to > implement. The only real addition needed is a tiddler tagged > $:/tags/EditTemplate with a link to the URL of the section in WF where you > keep your notes. And maybe the new here button made visible in the tiddler > toolbar. That's pretty much it. > > Hope someone here finds this helpful. For me it is the end of a long > obsessive quest that saw me produce many experiments along the way. Finally > feel like I got there. The only things I might wish for now are a few > additions to WF like embedded images that are not a hack, and pretty links > like [[viewed text|URL]]. But to be honest, I am content with this system > as is. > > Blessings, > > Dave > > > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7f4c7ef5-7eaa-496b-970a-a14b58e3b535%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
