Hi Richard Evans, Tiddlywiki has a rather steep learning curve. It does of course depend on what we are trying to achieve. I myself is learning by following this group, look at the linked tiddlywikies and testing a lot. My private Tiddlywikies are mostly using what others created only changed a little to fit my purposes.
I have been trying to use TiddlyWiki for a long time, but the sheer number > of bugs I have encountered has put me off. I keep coming back to see if it > is any better. To date, I cannot report an improvement. > I think that waiting for TW to improve is not a good idea. Of course TW gets better and better giving more options - and more to learn to use ;-) I am sure a lot of people will vermently disagree with my previous > statement. I stand by it. You are all experienced users of TiddlyWiki, I am > a learner. Thus I may not do things in the correct order to prevent the > bugs. I have never encountered a message to say that I am doing things > wrong, so I have to believe that I have encountered bugs. > I think this group has tiddlywiki users of all levels. I think we are all learning constantly. Get new ideas and so on. I would also think that most users have felt frustrated at times, I know I have. A little thing is bothering you, you try and try but nothing seems to do the trick. If you followed this group you would often see users asking a question and short after giving the answer themselves. We do not get messages telling us things are wrong (except of course java script warning). Your TW just does not work as you would want it to. My current missive concerns a bug in 5.14. I have a number of files that > use TiddlyWiki 5. I was updating one, when I decided to upgrade it to the > latest version. Accordingly I used the upgrader to upgrade the file. I did > this a number of times as there were problems with the final result. The > upgrade failed in one of two ways, either the document presented correctly, > but none of the menus, buttons etc worked. Or the upgraded document had two > menus, ( the section on the right which controls TiddlyWiki) overlaying > each other. > Did you check for overwritten shadows tiddlers? Also did you consider sharing a link to a public version of your tiddlywiki. Lots of eyes would look at it then, and more eyes catches more errors > I gave up at that point and decided to recreate my document (luckily it > was short), from scratch in an empty TW5. I did this and again there was a > bug, a different one this time! Presumably, to make life interesting. On > this occasion, I had two documents one after another in the file. The > edited file and original empty file. > No one likes bugs. If you found a bug it would be important to share with this group in the hope of finding it and hopefully a solution from one of the developing members. > TiddlyWiki is a very good idea, but unless these bugs can be squashed in a > timely manner I shall have to, reluctantly, give up using it. I am wasting > too much time trying to get and keep a clean un-corrupted document. > It is clear that you have had a bad experience. Would you consider sharing a link to your tiddlywiki giving others the chance to find the reason. I hope you find what you are looking for tiddlywiki or otherwise. But I also recall myself being rather dragged into using Tiddlywiki Classic many years ago. To be honest I was curious but it was a relationship of first dragging my feet, then love/hate - until about 6 months later = total addiction to this day ;-) Only you are able to decide what will be the best choice for you, Birthe -- 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/70023c3c-8f58-4dfc-b89f-94405180b6a7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
