I've been using TiddlyWiki for about 3 months, but I've seen the mailing list many times, "Why is there a small number of Tiddly users, even though it's better/more flexible than other wikis?" I think the main problem is that new users feel lost in trying out https://tiddlywiki.com/empty.html
When they write a new note, it appears in the Open sidebar, but as soon as they are closing it, the note disappearing from the list, so they think they have deleted their note, they do not know they can access it in the Recent sidebar. Let's assume that the user goes through the first barrier and finds that he can find his notes using the Recent sidebar and the search box. He wants to organize his notes in order to find them easier. Because he has used a note-taking program before, so he thinks he can use tags. As a test, he adds a tag to the note, then clicks on it and sees that the current note is listed. He is happy about it, but he misses the list of tags because they are not visible by default, he must look for it. Our man is very clever, he finds the Tools -> Tag Manager list and the More -> Tags sidebar, so he can use the wiki quite effectively. He thinks he wants to write a book from his notes, so he wants to sort them into a hierarchical system (table of contents). Since he not finds option / help in his own wiki, he must search the web for the answer. He finds the answer on https://tiddlywiki.com/#Adding%20a%20table%20of%20contents%20to%20the%20sidebar and can create a table of contents, but faces the fact that TiddlyWiki has to be "hacked" to reach its goals. If our man is a programmer / scientist, he's probably glad that TiddlyWiki is very open to modification, but if he is a simple user, then that fact can be scare of it. In my opinion, what is missing from TiddlyWiki is that navigation is more like general wiki (by default): Sidebars to add: - Include a default table of contents - Show More -> Tags as a regular sidebar Sidebars to remove: - Open is rarelly used in my opinion (at least among ordinary users) - Move "Tools" to the "More" sidebar (where Tags was) Finally, there would be as many sidebars as before, but they would come to the fore, which an average user (came from another wiki) uses more. (Very much thanks to @TiddlyTweeter for mentioning the use of Google Translate!) -- 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/c0bab390-96b0-4da7-91b3-7fe7a6b9059a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
