Mark and Tony, Could you guys say a little more about the typing speed issue. I haven't encountered this yet, but have been hoping to use TW for long-form writing. So this issue troubles me. Are there any routes to fixing this issue? Or is it a product of something fundamental to the way TW works?
Best wishes, Adam On Sunday, December 30, 2018 at 10:59:12 PM UTC, Mark S. wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > Sorry to hear you're having some health problems. Hope everything turns > out OK for you. > > Dynalist and Scrivener are easy to pick up. Org-mode isn't too hard either > as long as you stick with the basics. > > In all of these, I think, you create a new entry, promote/demote it, or > move it in the hierarchy -- without your fingers leaving the keyboard! You > can work uninterrupted, concentrating on the text, not fiddling with the > tech. > > One of the weaknesses in TW is how much you have to use the mouse for. You > create a new tiddler (by clicking on a button). Then you go back to the > keyboard. Then you tab down and the tags appear. How to get rid of them ? > Turns out you can tab and then space. But then you have to tab through all > the edit fields before you can get to the text field. But you can't see > which edit tool you're on (at least I can't), so what's the point? Most of > the edit tools are useless unless you're already down in the text box, so > wouldn't it be better to tab right into the text field? There also doesn't > seem to be anyway to tab into the tag field. So you're stuck using the > mouse again. > > And I haven't even gotten to the part about how you're going to be > breaking text into tiddlers, but the tiddlers will have to be managed with > some list or contrivance if you want to view or edit them in proper > sequence. Otherwise they'll just appear in the "recent" tab in whichever > order they were created. > > Speed. I've mentioned this before. In my heyday I could type 120wpm. More > normally I could type 60wpm. Today 40 isn't impossible. But the refresh > cycle on TW is constantly tripping up input, making the experience > sluggish. The experience varies by platform, browser, and memory usage I > think. But I don't expect to have typing problems *ever*. > > There's also issues with the default edit font. The edit fonts are > non-mono, and way too small on small devices. Yes, I know, I can tweak > them. > > These are all reasons why typing and writing on TW isn't optimal. I'm not > saying impossible, just not comfortable. > > -- Mark > > -- 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/7459451d-b605-489e-91cd-2fe8214a0e77%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
