Great thread! I think many of us have been through similar conversations over the years...
I do use TiddlyWiki to keep track of recipes. It's one of four personal wikis that I keep as standalone HTML files in Dropbox, and edit with TiddlyDesktop on my Mac, or Quine on iPhone/iPad. I don't do anything sophisticated though: it's just one tiddler per recipe, mostly copied and pasted from the web. I've considered splitting them up to have each ingredient as a separate tiddler, but I don't think I've got anything like enough recipes to make it worthwhile. Best wishes Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston [email protected] https://jermolene.com > On 13 Jan 2019, at 19:37, Joe Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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/B1BE501D-726D-4C26-BE5D-84D0CA85A74E%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
