Hello all, I'm deep into my second year using TW, mostly as a journal. I have an understanding of some core concepts of TW, like creating Macros (simple ones), themes with CSS to customize TW and such... you know nothing *too *crazy. If you want, you can totally check out my Tech Wiki (SSTech), hosted on my website at shayshaked.com.
OK, here come the very broad questions... I love TW, and I've been always looking to use it on my phone (Android, Nexus 5X) as a note taking app, possibly as Google Keep replacement. I tried AndTidWiki, and built a basic to-do list work around to help me in the past (it's documented in this group somewhere) but this never took off. The problems are mostly is that the android app and TW slow to use as a quick note taking app. In Keep, for example, I capture a quick serial and model number of an asset, then tag it, and the app extracts the text out of the image, and bam I have it ready. With TW, I need to open, right it down, if I take a photo, I need to edit it on a different app, than put it in the write media folder for TW, then link it, then make sure I'm using the right syntax... who has time for that? OK yes, TW is not *meant *for quick note taking, at least not that way, and requires some care to really make things shine out (my online Wiki is an example I'm proud of). *First question*: Am I right? Have you used TW as your preferred quick notes app on your phone, and if so, what's your method? TW is developed with love mostly in this group. I believe AndTidWiki hasn't been really updated since 2013, and is mostly not widely known. While this is fine and all, and this group is always brimming with ideas and developments... sometimes I wonder if it's alive. You know that feeling? The constant worry of any user of any platform these days, worrying his favorite app is going to vaporize into thin air tomorrow morning, and no one would notice? To be fair, that's one of the major fears I have with Keep too, especially because it's from Google. One of the VIP wakes up one morning and decide "nope! no more of that!" and that's the end of Keep. *Second question: *How stable do you think is TW, and is it here to stay? How do you keep tabs? How often? And a question that follows from that, one that I ask again because it's been a while: how and where do you learn about new plugins or features that are useful for you? Themes? Over time, I learned to appreciate the Unix philosophy. I have TW, and TW is a Wiki, and as such it's not *meant *to be a quick note taking app, or a Todo app. Yes, I am totally contradicting myself. I'm wondering in general :p. OK, so if I want to stay *away *from the big cloud companies like Google and Microsoft and Apple and even Dropbox if possible, what kind of apps are out there that work well, are visual (include images, which is very helpful for me, with annotation would be a HUGE plus), that work independently? And if not completely independent, at least offer a clean (and free!) exporting option as a form of backup? A good example of an app that *doesn't *do that is Evernote. Simplenote is an example of an app that lets you at least extract all your text files and save them locally as well. OK, let's break the question down. *Third question: *What do you, TW users, use as your favorite note taking app and your To-Do app, if it's *not *TW? Especially as TW users, who respect and like TW, but feel that it does only Wiki... stuff? What have you learned to count on? This is a whole lot of questioning. By no means, I am hoping for a full, long, response that addresses ALL of the above. But opinions would be nice. I do hope that this discussion would stirr some minds around here maybe and contribute more to TW somehow. TW has been a blessing so far, I love it! -- 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/a27539db-3502-4468-a0d9-0023f6800b36%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
