Hi Mat,

I'm not sure to understand your point, but for people like me the "one 
single file" concept is a key feature of TW. And I want different files for 
different things: one for my thesis notebook, one for my lessons, etc.

Alberto

Le dimanche 2 février 2014 01:28:08 UTC+1, Mat a écrit :
>
> *"Everyone who uses TW regularly but who uses only one TW, raise your 
> hands!... Nobody? Not a single individual?"*
>
> With the restart in TW5, or generally really, why is there so much focus 
> on the wiki as opposed to the individual tiddlers (like in 
> tiddlyweb/space)? There is talk about keeping tiddlers pure (altho not 
> expressed that way), but they are very much tied up in one wiki. To 
> paraphrase cdent who has written on this topic - tiddlers are not first 
> class citizens in TW. If TW is "designed to fit around your brain" (I love 
> that!) then why do most of my TW's only fit arount *minor parts* of my 
> brain?
>
> Every now and then single tiddlers or even a whole subjects really need to 
> be available in multiple TW's. My own notes for stuff, in the family TW. 
> References from one wiki suddenly needed in the GTD system. 
>
> Not to mention the constant revisits at the various plugin places 
> (wonderful as they may be!) For every TW I make, I must install copies of 
> quite a few plugins that I like. Taking a step back, that's a lot of 
> redundancy. And they must all be updated too.
>
> As much as I love TW, I can definitely see disadvantages with the 
> wiki-centered approach as opposed to a pure tiddler centered approach. And 
> much(?) of the work and thinking on how to implement this is already done 
> in TiddlyWeb and TS. Why is this not taken advantage of? Am I missing 
> something? - With TW5, why is the wiki paradigm chosen once again?
>
> I can see a few objections:
>
> One might want the collection of tiddlers to be only one single file. But 
> what, actually, is so holy about that? That vision is already "broken" with 
> the jar file and need for tiddlyfox. Maybe TW5 does not require these, I 
> don't know. Not to mention that backups result in a folder filled with 
> files. Why can't all be a folder instead? Is the one file concept still a 
> driving idea in this? To me it feels secondary to what would be possible 
> without it. ...and, besides, a complete universe of tiddlers could also be 
> one file, no?
>
> Is it too big of a conceptual change? Could the limitation to a single 
> wiki paradigm perhaps be a conceptual remnant of previous technological 
> limitations that are not as relevant today? 
>
> Another objection might possibly be that things would grow too complex. I 
> have little knowledge about this, but it seems to work with tiddlyweb/TS. 
> Besides, anyone who actually *prefers *to deal with many TiddlyWikis 
> would in no way be hindered from this.
>
> Now, one valid objection is that "So, Mat, do you only have one TW on TS?" 
> Well, for one, there is a lot of integration between wikis there, in a way 
> that is impossible with regular TWs. But more important than anything: 
> Whatever is separated there is *intentionally *so.
>
> So, I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
>
> ...or IS my premise totally off - DO you actually only use on giant TW?
>
>
> <:-)
>
>
>

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