Hello Josiah El jueves, 20 de julio de 2017, 9:19:06 (UTC+2), @TiddlyTweeter escribió: > > Tutti, Small comments ... > > *NoteSelf is currently largely MAGIC*. >
Hope that is not so bad as it sounds. > Meaning *its actually quite difficult to conceptually grasp* what it is & > how it works. In time it will get clearer. That is NOT a criticism. Its an > observation on a technology that just works a different way. > To be honest, the only people that I think they may get confused are the current TW users. Most (if not any) of the confusion here is because people is trying to treat NoteSel as a file, rather than an online service. It is better if you understand it as an online service, and NoteSelf is it's front-end. You can think in NoteSelf like a tiddler explorer, to see tiddlers that are stored on a database, like a file explorer just allows you to see your files, and it does not hold your files. NoteSelf is just an UI, an app to access your tiddlers stored somewhere, no matter if that place is your local browser or a remote database. If you try to compare it to tiddlywiki, if you force it to be what it is not, then you will get confused as most of the TW users does. > I am still myself unclear on several points ... > > (1) CORS settings in Cloudant and what the addressing they ask you for > there does? Do you need a "stub" at the address? > > > (2) Still unclear in the difference between the DOWNLOAD version and the > ONLINE version. > There is NO difference. They both do exactly the same thing. The download version is useful *if you want to host it on your own site.* I said this hundred times, but there is no point about downloading it to your computer, it just makes no sense. I think I will hide the download button a bit more, maybe moving it to an "advanced use" section. (4) I get the impression that some tiddlers -- like PLUGINS for instance -- > can be "hard-coded" into the DOWNLOAD version, rather than be in the > browser database. *In other words, there is a "sort-of" TW that exists > outside the PouchDB for the download version?* > Yes, you can hard-code some stuff into the html file. I will call this "compile NoteSelf". Let's think about this with the previous example, the file explorer. If you want to add a new button to your file explorer, you have to edit the code and compile it. Now your file explorer has that button every time you open it. Good. The only difference is that NoteSelf allows you to install plugins without "compiling" them into NoteSelf. So, to summarize: - If you install a plugin int o a NoteBook, then it will be only available on that NoteBook - If you compile NoteSelf with several plugins they will be available on that "instance" of NoteSelf and all the notebooks you open with it, but they are not saved into the NoteBook, so if you open your NoteBook with a different NoteSelf app without the plugins "compilled into it" they will not be available. > (5) I'm unclear IF and HOW one can convert a DOWNLOAD version into a > synchronising one with a cloud database version. > As I said, the DOWNLOAD version does the same thing than the online version, so the procedure is the same. I think I will ask people to stop referring to the Download version as Offline. It is simply not true, is not meant to be used as a regular TW file, is just the same app on your computer rather than the cloud. Regards -- 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/2970664d-43e0-425d-b149-15e0df4a0298%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
