I've been using TW for 3 years and I couldn't agree with you more. Every single person Ive tried to introduce to TW has said the same thing to me.
On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 1:52:32 PM UTC-6, Jeff Wilson wrote: > > I hope you guys don't mind some criticism. TiddlyWiki should be renamed > FiddlyWiki -- everything seems to require poorly document, or arcane, steps > or copying someone else's code to make things work. The macro suggested > above is an example. Sure, it just embeds an anchor tag into the HTML, but > the reason most people use wikis is to avoid writing HTML. Thus my > assumption that the macro must be able to be embedded in a [[link]]. > > Creating a hierarchy sure looks simple -- just do "New here". But I > couldn't find any documentation that told me that that is what that command > does. > > I agree with others that say that TW5 is pretty powerful, but it isn't for > the average person until some of these things are both better documented, > and a way to access/perform the more complicated things just become > menu-driven or something similar. > > And I'm not a Luddite. I'm fairly technical, but my expectation is that an > end-user tool should make it obvious and easy to do common things. If I > have to put on my 'programmer hat' to figure out how it works, it probably > is too hard. > > > > On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 2:22:00 PM UTC-5, S. S. wrote: >> >> Jeff, >> >> There is a nice explanation for using square brackets for external >> linking here : Linking in Wikitext >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Linking%20in%20WikiText> >> >> As far as I know, macros cannot be used inside this form of linking. You >> can assume this is so, unless someone jumps in and corrects me. >> >> Regards. >> >> On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 1:00:32 AM UTC+7, Jeff Wilson wrote: >>> >>> Can the macro be in the body of an external link, like this: >>> >>> [[My PDF file|<<external-document>>]] >>> >>> Or, can I concatenate something to the link, like: >>> >>> [[My PDF file|<<external-document>>#page=7]] >>> >>> -- 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/800bb531-751d-43ab-a84e-6d96c2dd7e34%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
