Ciao TonyM Your thread is causing me to think.
I'm feeling its really beginning to register the problem with documentation in a more move-on-able way. A few comments. To support your overview and mark a few places that maybe don't get so easily noticed ... more sociology of behaviour than a solution ... but I think worth pause--even though I'm partly repeating myself. 1 -- Users often GET documentation by asking questions on GG. --> The "documentation" and solution finding are strongly inter-woven. 2 -- BECAUSE Google Groups loses its own history very quickly into a swamp of "difficult-to-find" --> its very difficult for both BEGINNERS and folk not reading everything everyday to find relevant answers already there. And even if you are reading, if you are not cataloguing, its a struggle often to find the "80% there already" solution. There is a big ORIENTATION problem from lack of indices. 3 -- Since solution finding is a honing into PRECISE ANSWERS there is a slight tension between Generalising and Specifics ... by which I mean unless you read through several threads about, say, "timing" you may not be able to bring a solution together without extra help. The current discussion of __help needed in making a "n" minute timer macro__ <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/WuXWJPz68l0> is a good example where there are lots of parts towards a solution that exist ... stuff already made, discussions already done, new thoughts. Yet we all fumble finding the relevant ones efficiently. I think an issue is definitely around documenting AND linking to some key themes that will reduce the amount of repeated RE-CREATION OF 80% OF THE WHEEL. Just thoughts. Best wishes 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/81f45cdb-aad2-450b-9b76-dec7f928c436%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
