Richard, Thanks for Sharing, Jeremy deserves recognition for TiddlyDesktop and it is a great tool for TWC in addition to TW5.
Do you have any specific Questions given your circumstances? Tony On Saturday, 18 August 2018 03:40:13 UTC+10, Richard Niolon wrote: > > Hi > I apologize if this is not the place to post this, but I've been looking > around and have not found anywhere to do this. > > To frame this... I teach grad students and use the classic TiddlyWiki > (I'll update to the new version over academic break one of these days) as a > shell to organize course materials for my students... and me if I'm being > honest. I've posted on this before, but TiddlyWiki makes organizing > handouts, readings, topics, assignment instructions... as well as importing > things from the prior class and rearranging them for a new semester... very > easy. Udo's YourSearch plugin makes the whole thing searchable, which is a > big bonus. My students complain about all sorts of things, but I have had > only compliments about my course website for years now. > > The problem was... Firefox ended support for the scripting required to > *save* a TiddlyWiki. When I discovered this, I cursed them. I tried the > first version of TiddlyDesktop and had some issue with it. I went to the > portable version of the Firefox ESR release, but that's been a pain. I may > have four TiddlyWiki shells a semester, and so editing and switching > between them has been tricky. After a lot of work to figure out how to > install more than one version of Firefox, sometimes links still open in the > wrong version (or won't open because one version is already open and it > causes a conflict) and I can't figure out how to fix it (there's *dozens* > of calls to Firefox in the Windows registry, and even if I figure out which > one needs changing, I have to make that change on two other machines > running different versions of Windows). Further, every time there is an > update to Firefox, something gets borked in my set up. Switching to some > other solution is twice as much work for me, so I've stayed with the ESR, > though I hate it. > > Then I saw and tried the newest version (13 I think) of TiddlyDesktop.This > has made organizing and editing TiddlyWikis *SO SIMPLE*. > > I don't know how much work the TiddlyDesktop project has created, on top > of the work for the two versions of TiddlyWiki, but I really appreciate it. > My thanks to Jermolene R and everyone else working on this - you have made > my job much easier :) > > *THANKS!* > Rich > -- 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/213729e4-f3e6-464d-9f6f-b3d9227a3020%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
