That's not a basic question -- somebody that's been working with lists and filters for awhile would have to cook up a response. It's not something someone would even consider asking in say, MediaWiki or Evernote.
It's like buying a book on first aid and complaining that there's no chapter on removing kidneys. Mark On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 10:24:44 AM UTC-8, Josiah wrote: > > Ciao Mark > > The queries fell between two stools. On the one hand they have looked at > the basic docs, on the other finding the Google Group a bit too much. Given > that majority of people looking on Twitter for #TiddlyWiki are mostly > techies, these 3 were no exception. I think that is interesting in itself. > To give an example of a question I could not answer without referring to > here: "How do you append to a list a title with spaces using a text > reference?" > > Obviously their question needs to be opened up more but its pretty good > IMO to construct that question when you have no documentation at that level > to refer to. > > Best wishes > Josiah > > On Wednesday, 30 November 2016 18:56:14 UTC+1, Mark S. wrote: >> >> What were they trying to do? >> >> The documentation for basic functionality seems to be right there. But it >> does require people understand a bit about downloading, file structure (to >> find the downloaded file), and browser plugins. Web-based solutions don't >> require that knowledge, but then they can't operate off-line either. >> >> The documentation for more advanced topics, on the other hand, is >> scattered throughout TiddlyWiki.com and not nearly as accessible. >> >> Mark >> >> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 8:36:44 AM UTC-8, Josiah wrote: >>> >>> Ciao tutti >>> >>> In the last two weeks I've had extensive private correspondence with >>> three folk over on Twitter who want to know where to find the "real >>> documentation" for TiddlyWiki. After pointing to what documentation there >>> is I suggested they ask in the group on specific things they want to do. >>> >>> If I hadn't engaged in that discussion with them I would never have know >>> there are potential users who are likely passing on from not being able to >>> grasp enough quickly enough to be able to utilise TW well. >>> >>> I think its a problem (for them at least) as is. >>> >>> Just saying ... >>> Josiah >>> >> -- 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/30f6d4af-9bba-4471-85e7-27b2f34895e7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
