Ciao Mat Thank you for such a thoughtful reply.
... the context isn't even defined by the wiki, but by the reader and the > moment. Yes. > ... this is not so much a philosophical question as it is a pragmatic one Its BOTH, really. Your approach* instantiates A Philosophy* that is quite strong. I'd say you are a (good) "Pragmatist" :-) ... Imagine ... a UI where you ... mark out a text segment and drag it to > the river to create a tiddler with that text segment, at the same time > removing it from the original tiddler... Well, yes. That in no way obviates MY contention that the "conceptual heft" here is as much to do with YOU than The Mechanism. My point remains that you grapple forward in your brain, the technology is secondary. At least I hope so. There ain't no "solid defined context" only momentary needs that we vainly > try to predict. Exactly. Best wishes TT On Thursday, 22 August 2019 18:01:41 UTC+2, Mat wrote: > > @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> I, of course, want to know HOW you found out that its not sensible to >> have each ingredient a Tiddler. (Though it might be if you needed to create >> a shopping list for your next cook-up :-). >> > > How? Well, would having it as a tiddler benefit the context or not? The > changing variable is the *context*, and the tiddlers be-or-not is a > consequence. The need for "Milk" to be a tiddler or not can flip back and > forth. In reality the context isn't even defined by the wiki, but by the > reader and the moment. Even a common link could often as well be text if it > is not clicked on. But IMO this is not so much a philosophical question as > it is a pragmatic one and this is why I ended with: > > *It should be effortless to merge and split tiddlers and rearrange > "subtiddlers" showing within them. - *Imagine, for example, a UI where > you (ideally in view mode) mark out a text segment and drag it to the river > to create a tiddler with that text segment, at the same time removing it > from the original tiddler. Or the reverse, drag'n dropping a tiddler onto a > another one to have it merged into that spot. > > There ain't no "solid defined context" only momentary needs that we vainly > try to predict. > > <:-) > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/df695b21-be89-4209-8b64-33f623e5161c%40googlegroups.com.
