Thinking about recipes,
Any tiddlywiki recipe book should allow some images representing stains to
overlay it :)
I have thought about this a few times, shoe horned a few recipes into a Get
things done wiki but my larger interest is being about the concept of
recipes as a metaphor or analogy for other knowledge sets from Work
Instructions to specialist knowledge.
I see no reason not to enable a useful recipe edition of tiddlywiki via the
addition of a number of sub-functions that can be used in other
circumstances and applications. For example;
- Ingredients (lists)
- Test for ingredients
- Steps
- Organising recipes based on
- ingredients
- other parameters in a recipe eg season origin
I can imagine such features found in a good recipe could also be used to
help someone build a network solution, software package or Holiday
inventory.
but an open solution for food recipes would need another layer of
refinement for the end user, to simplify and empower. I believe we the
community can improve on this if we jointly develop some "user interface"
standards and tools we can share, to take tiddly-wiki that step further to
wider use. This is already starting in the Mobile first area.
Regards
Tony
On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 6:37:29 AM UTC+11, Joe Armstrong 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
>
>
>
>
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