I, too, am a new user [about 2 weeks in] ... I consider myself to be somewhere in-between totally non-techy and somewhat-knowledgeable-techy. Unfortunately, as frustrating as it is, I have to come to grips with the fact that I am just not cut out to understand programming on any level.
I started my TW5 journey by reading *everything* on the TW5 site, as well as following every link to other sites I could find. [Information overload, anyone???] When I read the TW5 site, I didn't understand most of what I was reading at the time. Now that I am trying to implement my own Wikis, *some* of it is starting to make some sense, but a lot of it still doesn't yet. I find the explanations are usually way over my head. Even the majority of the posts on this mailing list are way over my head, but I am *really* trying to understand as much as I can to get the most out of TW5 because I recognize it's value and flexibility. As for the most complete resources to what other people have done with TW5 are Dave's dynalist ... which I only *just* found the other day since I read about it in one of these forum posts. The other fairly complete list was on a reddit page. One of the other major things I'm finding is that *most* of what is out there is so old [as in prior to 2017], that I am constantly wondering if the information is still valid today [despite the future-proofing principle]. The other thing I am finding, is I don't want to waste time re-inventing wheels if somebody has already created a plugin / widget to do it far better than I could possibly do on my own any way. What I have resorted to doing is bookmarking the TW5 site, as well as Dave's DL. I have also downloaded a whole lot of demos for solutions that *somewhat* appeal to me to try sometime down the road when I am a lot more familiar with TW5. To be honest, the wiki's that do *solely* one thing only, together with the documentation and examples of exactly how to do that one thing well [with maybe some reasons as to WHY this way is better than other ways?] have been the most helpful to me at this point. I NOW know that I can import it straight into one of my wikis, and then experiment from there. This has been a very helpful way of expanding my understanding of what TW5 is capable of. Also, just yesterday, I started yet another wiki ... to be used as my own TW5 "knowledge base" ... why? Because the way I organize things seems to be totally different than the way most of you do ... and this way I can find it more quickly when I need it. Obviously, this is going to be an ongoing work in progress, and should it ever get to the place where I think it may benefit others, I will follow another recent tutorial I found on creating my own GitHub Pages and upload it, and share it with the rest of the community. My purpose in responding in this thread is to give some perspective from a new user who really doesn't have anywhere near the technical skills most of you do. That being said ... I also want to thank all of you for what all the work and time you invest into this project. I *highly* respect what each of you bring to the table as a community to share your knowledge and expertise with the rest of us. I have found nothing but very quick and respectful help to people who have questions, or who need help on figuring something out. I appreciate that ... *very* much! Thanks, AgedLace -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/17da417f-27c9-45ff-8798-ba9582b801a5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
