I think you are definitely in the right direction. Eric Shulman's attempt to get funding for the "Missing Manual" stands out as a shout-out that TW is not as well used as it could be if were easier to get to grips with. I have no idea whether that project went ahead or not. The page indicates he did not raise enough money. I hope he, or someone who knows, will comment back on where it got to.
I am not a programmer but do see what TW can do and am basically hungry for easier ways to get to its potential. This is not a slur on all the great people here who help as much as they can. It's just an observation that current documentation is way above me. I need a Dummies Guide To TiddlyWiki. Best wishes Josiah On Monday, 30 May 2016 22:57:59 UTC+2, Alexander Eckert wrote: > > Tl;dr: Is there any plan or possibility to offer some educational videos > or courses not only to set up a standard TW but also to customize and > understand the whole structure in a specific logical order? > > > Hi, > > after two years of searching and testing several notebook- and > knowledge-base-software from Evernote to Lexican I decided to use TW as my > personal knowledge-base. The main argument is the cross-platform ability > and the nice size of the database. But after I tested TW for a while, I > liked the ability to customize the TW so much. I tried to learn everything > about structure, code and possibilities of TW but this is hard as a JS-, > HTML-, CSS-noob. I looked up several things at www.tiddlywiki.com and > http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/ to create my first (maybe very simple) plugin. > During my research I found Erics crowd-funding page ( > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inside-tiddlywiki-the-missing-manual#/) > and his project at https://github.com/ericshulman/InsideTiddlyWiki. This > was very helpful and I learned a lot about the general TW usage. Some > functions for my plugin are copied and edited from other projects and in my > opinion this is very helpful too. But it took a long time to reach this > point from my noob-start, maybe longer then it should. > > I watched some TW-Hangouts and if I get that correctly, some members are > working at universities or schools. Even in the last hangout-session, Mr. > Ruston spoke about students from his TW-course, who seems not to be > volunteers. At the point I wonder if it is possible to offer some kind of > (maybe youtube-based) video courses for the people with interest. ;-) I saw > the Tutorials on Youtube to start using TW, and they are very helpful at > the beginning, but the advanced-parts are missing. I know, that knowing JS > will help a lot and I'll do my best to learn it fast, but maybe I'm not > the only one who would only need JS to customize his TW. > www.tiddlywiki.com is a nice encyclopedia, but in my opinion the > educational path is missing. This educational path would be a sequence of > topics which are build on each other. > > Maybe I did not recognized such courses so far, but I did a lot of > research. Maybe coursera could be a possible platform to provide those > courses. I would understand if the "coursera-way" would be too much work > including chat-support aso. But maybe It is possible to offer little > Youtube-tutorials or -lessons, which are semantically build on each other. > > Please let me know If I'm totally wrong with my thoughts, I want to learn. > But maybe those courses are worth a thought. > > Best Regards > > Alex > -- 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/53f4cf38-2a6e-4b0d-b0f3-29366f79cbf1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
