I have some similar things but it occurs to me, as someone who doesn't have time to keep up with tiddlywiki developments, that what I'd like to see would be something like tiddlywiki explained using tiddlywiki -- perhaps with some YouTube videos embedded or linked. Or even just a HOW TO with respect to the new features with each release. Since tiddlywikis are single files a newsletter on changes and HOW TOs with a tiddlywiki attachment is something I'd subscribe to.
The interactive game reminds me: Once (long before the web!)... I learned how to use a slide rule using a book -- that I'm sure there's a term for but it escapes me -- which set problems and offered answers and page numbers. If you got it wrong it explained what you likely did and sent you back. It was very useful (without it I'd have flunked physics in university; it was the last year that calculators were banned). I'm sure nobody has the time to do that for TW, and that it's to some extent structurally impossible given that it's not a frozen thing like a slide rule, but ... I wonder At times TW feels like a train going past on which people are inventing new lego. If you go away for a while and come back you can recognise some names but the language has changed, web sites that you were familiar with are gone or changed or contain code that no longer works. It can be a bit bewildering even for a long time TW user who only drops in here occasionally. There isn't a definitive, structured, way to apprehend TW. It's somewhat ironic as a wiki would be a great way to organise the information. I assumed there were two reasons for this. First, everyone was too busy inventing new lego and, second, possibly wrongly, I had the feeling that a "tiddlywikihwotopedia" could only be countenanced using TW, and that just would be too hard given its single user orientation. I have no doubt at all that I've missed a lot of good information that has been shared here and which I could have used or learned from but I can't spend the time, and if and when I have searched I get so much that is out of context, out of date, irrelevant, or requiring background knowledge I don't have, I find myself thinking "if only there was a wiki" (of all the things!). And it means I have even missed things UNDER MY NOSE. The canonical example: my wife has used a "Tiddlyfolio" tiddlywiki for many years to store some confidential information in encrypted form. When she began having hassles with Firefox and saving I looked at updating it to TW5 but a) just couldn't find the code to do the encryption and b) completely overlooked the fact that the capability was now built in! And this was despite my using TW5 for quite a long time. I didn't even find it immediately. First, after some research, I tried out Joplin, which is pretty nice, and which I have since switched to instead of Evernote. However, if you get access to the device e.g., if it's left open and unattended for a few minutes, there's no requirement for a secondary password (as there is in the case of authy e.g.). That's just not good enough for the kind of data she she deals with and is legally required to protect (counselling practice, not Swiss bank account details). I greatly appreciate the efforts of Dave Gifford and others who provide some structure that "passengers" (non engineers) can use for orientation. Not because I rely on them, but because I know I might do someday, and of course in the meantime I can make some useful chance discoveries. There's some irony in the word passengers, because what I suspect many TW users have in common is an active desire to control their own information and a preference for open source software. An ability to make some structured discoveries, preferably one that people could collaborate on developing, would be terrific. A YouTube channel (or equivalent) would be good. Something else that would declutter things for many: splitting this group in two, one for developers and one for users. That works well for another open source tool I use. By chance I stumbled on the /selfhosted subreddit recently, having known nothing of it previously. This seems to be the broader context in which TW fits. Software that you manage yourself instead of surrendering your data, privacy and freedom of choice. I found myself wondering briefly why I have yet to get any documentation for that kind of software in the form of a TW, even a template say, for filling in key things one will need to refer to later. Being able to record, synchronise and, where needed, encrypt key procedural, configuration and other information is really very valuable. I maintain a TW for my network and one for each computer on it. I've never got around to one for the house but have long thought that every home could use one. -- 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/94ebe6f4-58e8-45bd-8538-f7f22e2d783b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
