I was having a discussion with my wife about the TW -- I was saying how great it was and so on and how useful it would be for her to learn and use.
She was unconvinced - she said "only programmers are interested in things like this" I tried to convince her - but she wasn't convinced by all the "you can filter things on tags" arguments (which for me is the killer argument). "What's it useful for?" she said. (good question) "Everything," I said. After a while she came up with two ideas which thought I'd like to discuss here: She said: "You need an app, it's got to be easy to use", and "how about recipes?" The app bit is easy - it must run on an iPhone/Android/iPad and hide all the details of saving/restoring versions. (aside) Is it easy to use? - the node version which I use is not user-friendly to the total beginner - the all-in-one html version has dire warnings about backup copies -- not something for total non-computer types - for them it should just work. (/aside) What about recipes? - this seems like a good idea - If one tiddler = one recipe then the tagging becomes easy, we can tag by ingredient (flour, butter, potatoes) skill (easy, gourmet) time to prepare (20min, 30 min) calories (high, low) etc. It's a lot of tags per recipe - BUT the mental model of a filter is easy tag[easy]tag[vegan]... To gain traction we'd need a lot of recipes so this might be a nice project to write an off-line program to transform a collection of open-source recipes (if there are such things) into a TW. The net result would be rather nice - in the old days (before the Internet) family recipes were passed on from generation to generation. A TW recipe book would represent an interesting challenge. We need: - loads of recipes - to hide most of the TW - to expose a user-friendly interface - to provide nice printouts Once done package this as an app "my recipe book" and only expose the TW in a gentle and non-threatening manner. Are there any TW recipe books or collections of open-source recipes that can be turned into tiddlers? Cheers /Joe -- 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/573831b6-1789-4b43-82f4-580b5a201df2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
