Hi Jeremy, Hi all...
I just realized that i got fascinated about a very old thread...
Has something like an easy way to publish a TW in an app come up in the
meantime...
I really would solve some problems for me.
Yours Jan
Am 13.04.2017 um 01:57 schrieb Jan:
Hi Jeremy,
Great, I got a project where I have been waiting for something like this.
I think the layout could be quite close to the normal TW, some
elements would have to be a little more mobile-friendly...for example
because I like formats you can carry in the pocket, enabling true
fullscreen in TWEdit would be a help.
I made a Menu that could be useful for navigating multilevel menus on
smartphones on slidesnstories.tiddlyspot.com and also the
presenterplugin i made there could provide a learing Cards / cue card
mechanism.
Some ideas regarding the buisiness modell.
...To use it in courses, it would be nice to have the perspective of
an Android-Branch
...for my courses it would be nice if there was the possiblity to
print out a qr-code to download for free.
...regarding the buisiness-model this could be useful a technique to
make possible certain number of downloads after the institution paid a
license.
It would be usesfull to have a qr-code scanner in the app to access
certain topics directly.
Best wishes Jan
Am 30.01.2015 um 12:58 schrieb Jeremy Ruston:
Do you have an idea for TiddlyWiki content that you think people
might pay for?
Perhaps a technical manual? Or a guide for your city? Training
materials for your company's field engineer force? Or maybe a
manualisation of mental health intervention techniques?
Would you be interested in working together to create your multimedia
TiddlyWiki content and wrap it up as an app that can be distributed
and sold on the iPhone/iPad app store?
Here's the background for this invitation: I've recently finished my
work with CTRLio. I'm very grateful to them for the support they've
shown to my work on TiddlyWiki over the last 18 months. But now I
need to find new sources of income to replace my salary. There's a
few weeks in which I can consider some radical options, and this is
one of them.
I want to explore the idea of building a commercial TiddlyWiki
ecosystem on top of the Apple platform of iOS, the Mac and iCloud.
I'm not making any moral or philosophical judgement about Apple's
place in the world. I'm considering this plan just because the App
Store is one of the places that someone like me may be able to make
money.
This first step is simple: we create a framework for building iOS
apps that provide a terrific, read-only user experience for
interacting with TiddlyWiki documents. I'd want to support free or
paid apps, with the possibility of using in-app purchases for premium
content. It would be a way to deliver a highly custom, interactive
user experience around multimedia content. We would be able to
deliver free updates to the app and content via the app store update
process.
Such a simple application would be the quickest way to get into the
app store - I believe in just a few weeks. The aim would be for the
app to be invisible without much of a discernible user interface,
just providing the mechanisms for the content to take centre stage.
It certainly shouldn't resemble the familiar default TiddlyWiki
editing interface.
I'm open to suggestions about how to structure this from a business
perspective. I'd need some upfront payment to fund the development,
but hopfully we'd find a big enough handful of people that individual
shares of the startup costs would be relatively small.
If enough people can provide the necessary commercial backing we can
use TiddlyPip to publish Eric's "Inside TiddlyWiki: The Missing Manual".
Beyond simple read-only publishing, there would be a number of
incremental improvements we could make once we see regular revenue:
# Support read/write functionality like annotations, with iCloud
syncing between iOS devices.
# Support publishing custom, TiddlyWiki-based applications, such as
tw5.scholars. It wouldn't appear to be a TiddlyWiki file: it would
behave like a custom app for scholarly notetaking (including
multi-device sync)
# Support quizzes and questionnaires, with content unlocked by
successfully completing exercises
# Support reporting of progress to the TinCan API
# Support one-on-one student/educator interactions through the app.
Students might buy an academic textbook along with tokens to ask the
author 5 questions via messaging within the app.
# Create a full end-user application that enables the user to create
and work with TiddlyWiki documents on iOS devices. This is really the
ultimate goal from a development perspective. But it's a lot of work
to create such an app with enough polish to stand out in the app
store, and I'm not convinced there are enough people prepared to pay
for apps like TiddlyWiki. But if we can bootstrap things via the
content publishing route then we ought to be able to gain the time to
make the app sufficiently polished and useful
It's fun thinking about the possibilities. But we need to take this
journey as a series of small steps, and I need to quickly find out if
there's any hope of completing the first step.
I need to know if there's anyone out there who might be prepared to
put some money on the table based on their belief that they have
content that could viably support this business model. So please let
me know if you fit that description. Ideally, we'd find a handful of
people which would make it easier to fund the initial development,
until the app store revenues kick in.
Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions,
Best wishes
Jeremy
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