[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-18 Thread Tobias Beer


 And I think that TiddlyWiki should be defined in an empty TiddlyWiki 

 +1

+2

IMO, missing tiddlers simply looks like it's some error which is confusing.


Not an error, but a useful tool, I think.
I imagine, the missing tiddler list on tiddlywiki.com may indeed need some 
review.
One way would be to redirect now dead candidates to their new places.
Another would be the ability to add a missing link to some 
S:/config/IgnoreMissing index which...

   1. prevents the link from being wikified as a link
   2. no longer lists the link in the missing tab

One half measure idea would be a some text in faint gray in each missing 
 tiddler informing that [there is no content in this tiddler]. (Not quite 
 true if it's not a tiddler to begin with.)


There's a bug in 5.1.5 that prevents the desired message from showing up.
 

 Another route might be to de-linkify them with ~


That's one way to do it, but some of them are possibly intended to be 
documented, yet not documented as of today. Perhaps some rudimentary 
doc-todo tag would be an indication as to what are truly missing tiddlers 
on tiddlywiki.com.
 
Best wishes, Tobias. 

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-18 Thread Tobias Beer
Hi Rich,
 

 I was trying to start a new TW with all the Missing files and I was going 
 to start making them.


Making them is not the solution for every case.
Sometimes things got renamed and concepts redesigned.

Some perhaps really don't need to be created, I think.
They could just be put on some index to be hidden from the missing tids.

Best wishes, Tobias. 

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki


 I'm keen to get 5.1.6 out soon, so all this help is much appreciated,


This isn't really related to the topic but it is something I thought was 
worth mentioning when you go back to work on 5.1.6... By my count there are 
171 Missing tiddlers. Some, I suspect, were never intended to be 
tiddlers. I think the missing tiddler list should be minimal.

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread RichShumaker
Stephen,

How did you find those missing tiddlers under the missing tab?
In the Emptly.HTML there are no missing tiddlers but 'TiddlyWiki' is linked 
too and does not exist.
And I think that TiddlyWiki should be defined in an empty TiddlyWiki 
especially if we decide to change the name from,
empty.html to TiddlyWiki.html or some variation of TW for the name.
As I have said before I like the biggest name I can get and I know I am in 
the minority, this would be my choice for naming structure 
TiddlyWiki-5-1-6-empty.html.

I agree that having missing tiddlers should be minimized / eliminated.
Can we help with that Jeremy?  If so how?

Rich Shumaker


On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:07:24 AM UTC-8, Stephen Kimmel wrote:

 I'm keen to get 5.1.6 out soon, so all this help is much appreciated,


 This isn't really related to the topic but it is something I thought was 
 worth mentioning when you go back to work on 5.1.6... By my count there are 
 171 Missing tiddlers. Some, I suspect, were never intended to be 
 tiddlers. I think the missing tiddler list should be minimal.



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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki


 How did you find those missing tiddlers under the missing tab?
 In the Emptly.HTML there are no missing tiddlers but 'TiddlyWiki' is 
 linked too and does not exist.


I'm sorry if I mistyped that. I was looking at the TW 5.1.6 Full Prelease 
html file. Clearly it is a work in progress but then TW 5.1.5 has nearly as 
missing tiddlers. I don't have the exact number for TW 5.1.5 but it is over 
160 missing tiddlers.

I agree that having missing tiddlers should be minimized / eliminated.
 Can we help with that Jeremy?  If so how?


How can we help, Jeremy?

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread Mat
RichShumaker wrote:


 How did you find those missing tiddlers under the missing tab?
 In the Emptly.HTML there are no missing tiddlers but 'TiddlyWiki' is 
 linked too and does not exist.


Sure you'' find them: Sidebar tab More and then vertical tab Missing. 

 

 And I think that TiddlyWiki should be defined in an empty TiddlyWiki 

especially if we decide to change the name from, empty.html to 
 TiddlyWiki.html or some variation of TW for the name.


What does that first line mean?
 

As I have said before I like the biggest name I can get and I know I am in 
 the minority, this would be my choice for naming structure 
 TiddlyWiki-5-1-6-empty.html.


Why not with periods instead of hyphens? I believe this works just fine, 
no? Maybe TiddlyWiki5.1.6_empty.html ? (Even if I'd rather have it named 
just TiddlyWiki5.1.6.html
 

I've brought up the missing tiddlers issue before (even eagerly emailed 
several alerts to Jeremy *Oh, I found another one* before realizing 
that, yes, there is a missing list with 100+ names! LOL) IMO, the problem 
is that it simply looks like there's some error which is confusing. 

One half measure idea would be a default text informing that [there is no 
content in this tiddler]. However, this is not true because it's not a 
tiddler to begin with. 

Pure tags (i.e tags that are not a tiddler) could have a text informing 
that name is a tag and maybe even listing in which tiddlers. Could this 
be done without having be a tiddler? (...or maybe that wouldn't matter? 
Could have a field saying it's of type tag?)

Another route might be to de-linkify them in empty. I.e to have a run 
through that puts a ~ in front of them. That way they're not seen in view 
mode but we could still easily find them when/if we want to.

:-)

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread Mat
RichShumaker wrote:
 

 And I think that TiddlyWiki should be defined in an empty TiddlyWiki 


+1.  

IMO, missing tiddlers simply looks like it's some error which is confusing.
I've brought up this subject before, but for tw.com  - I even eagerly 
peppered Jeremy with alerts *Oh, look look, I found yet another missing 
one* before realizing that, yes, there is a missing tab listing 100+ 
names! Doh!

One half measure idea would be a some text in faint gray in each missing 
tiddler informing that [there is no content in this tiddler]. (Not quite 
true if it's not a tiddler to begin with.)

Another route might be to de-linkify them with ~ on tw.com. Not seen then 
in view mode but still easily findable if we want to.


As I have said before I like the biggest name I can get and I know I am in 
 the minority, this would be my choice for naming structure 
 TiddlyWiki-5-1-6-empty.html.


Why not with periods instead of hyphens: TiddlyWiki5.1.6_empty.html - I 
believe this works just fine, no? Even if I'd rather have it named just 
TiddlyWiki5.1.6.html.

:-)

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread RichShumaker
.(periods) on some systems are no goodsky they are the beginning of the 
type area so image.jpg document.pdf ect. ect.

I like the _ instead of . so TW5_1_5_Emptly.html and I know I like really 
long file names.

One Idea is to take all the missing tiddlers and creating them for Jeremy 
if he is okay with that.
We could use the ~Exclude functionality except you will be surprised that 
there are many places that have that item.
Jeremy ~TiddlyWiki on the main page then it was listed in several other 
places.
I like  shadow tiddlers and adding one more makes me sad it would be 
1112 with a TiddlyWiki shadow tiddler except I think a basic explanation of 
TiddlyWiki is important.
If this was BobsWiki then having a Tiddler called TiddlyWiki might not be a 
big deal BUT
This is TiddlyWiki and a Tiddler with that name just makes sense to me even 
in an empty.html TiddlyWiki.

Jumps off soapbox quickly.
Rich Shumaker

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:00:48 PM UTC-8, Mat wrote:

 RichShumaker wrote:
  

 And I think that TiddlyWiki should be defined in an empty TiddlyWiki 


 +1.  

 IMO, missing tiddlers simply looks like it's some error which is confusing.
 I've brought up this subject before, but for tw.com  - I even eagerly 
 peppered Jeremy with alerts *Oh, look look, I found yet another missing 
 one* before realizing that, yes, there is a missing tab listing 
 100+ names! Doh!

 One half measure idea would be a some text in faint gray in each missing 
 tiddler informing that [there is no content in this tiddler]. (Not quite 
 true if it's not a tiddler to begin with.)

 Another route might be to de-linkify them with ~ on tw.com. Not seen 
 then in view mode but still easily findable if we want to.


 As I have said before I like the biggest name I can get and I know I am in 
 the minority, this would be my choice for naming structure 
 TiddlyWiki-5-1-6-empty.html.


 Why not with periods instead of hyphens: TiddlyWiki5.1.6_empty.html - I 
 believe this works just fine, no? Even if I'd rather have it named just 
 TiddlyWiki5.1.6.html.

 :-)



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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread RichShumaker
Example
Tiddler - TitleMe
[[TitleMe|http://eucaly-tw5.tiddlyspot.com/#TitleMe]]

I think I could get a bunch done fairly quickly and we could have all the 
missing ones cut to almost none.
I am not a GitHub wiz and I have a feeling we need to make these changes 
via GitHub, I am up for learning and helping out here.
Anyone else want to help?

I was trying to start a new TW with all the Missing files and I was going 
to start making them.
Unfortunately the system is smarter than I and I can't copy paste the list 
or drag and drop the list.
So there is an interesting question how do you make a list of things that 
don't exist yet inside TW(Missing Tiddlers)?
Ideally I could drag and drop the list and then start to reverse engineer 
the answers, for stuff like YouTube.

Thanks everyone.

Rich Shumaker

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:14:59 PM UTC-8, RichShumaker wrote:

 .(periods) on some systems are no goodsky they are the beginning of the 
 type area so image.jpg document.pdf ect. ect.

 I like the _ instead of . so TW5_1_5_Emptly.html and I know I like really 
 long file names.

 One Idea is to take all the missing tiddlers and creating them for Jeremy 
 if he is okay with that.
 We could use the ~Exclude functionality except you will be surprised that 
 there are many places that have that item.
 Jeremy ~TiddlyWiki on the main page then it was listed in several other 
 places.
 I like  shadow tiddlers and adding one more makes me sad it would be 
 1112 with a TiddlyWiki shadow tiddler except I think a basic explanation of 
 TiddlyWiki is important.
 If this was BobsWiki then having a Tiddler called TiddlyWiki might not be 
 a big deal BUT
 This is TiddlyWiki and a Tiddler with that name just makes sense to me 
 even in an empty.html TiddlyWiki.

 Jumps off soapbox quickly.
 Rich Shumaker

 On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:00:48 PM UTC-8, Mat wrote:

 RichShumaker wrote:
  

 And I think that TiddlyWiki should be defined in an empty TiddlyWiki 


 +1.  

 IMO, missing tiddlers simply looks like it's some error which is 
 confusing.
 I've brought up this subject before, but for tw.com  - I even eagerly 
 peppered Jeremy with alerts *Oh, look look, I found yet another missing 
 one* before realizing that, yes, there is a missing tab listing 
 100+ names! Doh!

 One half measure idea would be a some text in faint gray in each missing 
 tiddler informing that [there is no content in this tiddler]. (Not quite 
 true if it's not a tiddler to begin with.)

 Another route might be to de-linkify them with ~ on tw.com. Not seen 
 then in view mode but still easily findable if we want to.


 As I have said before I like the biggest name I can get and I know I am 
 in the minority, this would be my choice for naming structure 
 TiddlyWiki-5-1-6-empty.html.


 Why not with periods instead of hyphens: TiddlyWiki5.1.6_empty.html - I 
 believe this works just fine, no? Even if I'd rather have it named just 
 TiddlyWiki5.1.6.html.

 :-)



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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread RichShumaker
d'oh!!! my text editor spreadsheet workaround.
http://www.richshumaker.com/tw5/Missing.htm

Working on formatting into Tiddlers next.

Rich Shumaker


On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:30:12 PM UTC-8, RichShumaker wrote:

 Example
 Tiddler - TitleMe
 [[TitleMe|http://eucaly-tw5.tiddlyspot.com/#TitleMe]]

 I think I could get a bunch done fairly quickly and we could have all the 
 missing ones cut to almost none.
 I am not a GitHub wiz and I have a feeling we need to make these changes 
 via GitHub, I am up for learning and helping out here.
 Anyone else want to help?

 I was trying to start a new TW with all the Missing files and I was going 
 to start making them.
 Unfortunately the system is smarter than I and I can't copy paste the list 
 or drag and drop the list.
 So there is an interesting question how do you make a list of things that 
 don't exist yet inside TW(Missing Tiddlers)?
 Ideally I could drag and drop the list and then start to reverse engineer 
 the answers, for stuff like YouTube.

 Thanks everyone.

 Rich Shumaker

 On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:14:59 PM UTC-8, RichShumaker wrote:

 .(periods) on some systems are no goodsky they are the beginning of the 
 type area so image.jpg document.pdf ect. ect.

 I like the _ instead of . so TW5_1_5_Emptly.html and I know I like really 
 long file names.

 One Idea is to take all the missing tiddlers and creating them for Jeremy 
 if he is okay with that.
 We could use the ~Exclude functionality except you will be surprised that 
 there are many places that have that item.
 Jeremy ~TiddlyWiki on the main page then it was listed in several other 
 places.
 I like  shadow tiddlers and adding one more makes me sad it would be 
 1112 with a TiddlyWiki shadow tiddler except I think a basic explanation of 
 TiddlyWiki is important.
 If this was BobsWiki then having a Tiddler called TiddlyWiki might not be 
 a big deal BUT
 This is TiddlyWiki and a Tiddler with that name just makes sense to me 
 even in an empty.html TiddlyWiki.

 Jumps off soapbox quickly.
 Rich Shumaker

 On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:00:48 PM UTC-8, Mat wrote:

 RichShumaker wrote:
  

 And I think that TiddlyWiki should be defined in an empty TiddlyWiki 


 +1.  

 IMO, missing tiddlers simply looks like it's some error which is 
 confusing.
 I've brought up this subject before, but for tw.com  - I even eagerly 
 peppered Jeremy with alerts *Oh, look look, I found yet another 
 missing one* before realizing that, yes, there is a missing tab 
 listing 100+ names! Doh!

 One half measure idea would be a some text in faint gray in each missing 
 tiddler informing that [there is no content in this tiddler]. (Not quite 
 true if it's not a tiddler to begin with.)

 Another route might be to de-linkify them with ~ on tw.com. Not seen 
 then in view mode but still easily findable if we want to.


 As I have said before I like the biggest name I can get and I know I am 
 in the minority, this would be my choice for naming structure 
 TiddlyWiki-5-1-6-empty.html.


 Why not with periods instead of hyphens: TiddlyWiki5.1.6_empty.html - I 
 believe this works just fine, no? Even if I'd rather have it named just 
 TiddlyWiki5.1.6.html.

 :-)




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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread RichShumaker
http://www.richshumaker.com/tw5/Missing.htm

I have started at the bottom and I am working my way up.
Someone want to start at the top where I have no idea what to do, ;) #heheh

Rich Shumaker

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread Mat
I think it's a better idea to first of all hear what Jeremy thinks. Second, 
I'm sure that procedure could be automated. Would reduce the risk for 
errors also.

:-)

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:51:30 PM UTC+1, RichShumaker wrote:

 http://www.richshumaker.com/tw5/Missing.htm

 I have started at the bottom and I am working my way up.
 Someone want to start at the top where I have no idea what to do, ;) #heheh

 Rich Shumaker


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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Boy Rich. You've really gone to town with this issue. One caveat before we 
go too far down this trail. Some of the missing tiddlers were clearly 
intended to be actual tiddlers someday. Some of them may be accidents. 
DaveGifford or DavidJade were probably never intended to actually be 
tiddlers. Something like [[MissingTiddler]] was clearly supposed to be a 
tiddler someday. 

As for the filenames, I'm with you. I prefer TW_516.html to TW.5.14.html 
for the simple reason that it is easier to read. Underscores are more 
automatically ignored than hyphens, periods and certainly CamelCase. In 
terms of readability, which may or may not be an actual word, mixed upper 
case and lower case words are among the hardest to read. That is why you 
see So FeW sEnTeNcEs WrItTeN lIKe ThIs. That's an extreme example but it is 
easy to see the problem. 

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Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread Andreas Hahn
Someone want to start at the top where I have no idea what to do, ;) 
#heheh


I think it's a better idea to first of all hear what Jeremy thinks. 
Second, I'm sure that procedure could be automated. Would reduce the 
risk for errors also.


Also the first missing tiddlers from the list are almost entirely if 
you name the tiddler '$:/something', then something happens, so those 
ones can either be ignored and the places where they are mentiones 
encapsulated in ```...``` or similiar. (That pretty much goes for all 
the $:/... tiddlers)


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Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-16 Thread RichShumaker
I agree this is a bit premature.
I have been learning a lot as I create these tiddlers.
I won't be putting any details on ones that need to be created to have 
something work.
Or putting a note to that extent.

If what I did is not acceptable then there is no need to use it, if someone 
wants to come back later they could easily TAG it somehow.
So you don't like what I did you can put a TAG - [Update Needed] or 
[Explanation Needed] or something like that.

For me I am just trying to help out and this is one of the ways I know I 
can right now, still learning JavaScript and need to work on more videos 
and tutorials.
Seriously YouTube people, #heheh.

When I make TW I often get a lot of CamelCase issues and sometimes making a 
Tiddler is easier than ~ everything.
YouTube is one that has come up a bunch for me.

Rich Shumaker

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Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-15 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Stephen



On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 5:43 PM, 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki 
tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com wrote:

 I think it's important to remember who are target audience is with the
 Empty file's GettingStarted tiddler. The audience for this tiddler is the
 new or inexperienced user. The experienced user doesn't need it and
 probably replaces it without even reading it.

 With that in mind, I have a few critiques and suggestions for the
 GettingStarted tiddler.

 1. All reference to the Control Panel has been removed. By comparison, the
 GettingStarted tiddler for the classic version contained essentially
 nothing but references to what are now control panel functions. For those
 who have forgotten, the GettingStarted tiddler for the classic version
 contained just five lines which were:

 To get started with this blank TiddlyWiki, you'll need to modify the
 following tiddlers:

- SiteTitle  SiteSubtitle: The title and subtitle of the site, as
shown above (after saving, they will also appear in the browser title bar)
- MainMenu: The menu (usually on the left)
- DefaultTiddlers: Contains the names of the tiddlers that you want to
appear when the TiddlyWiki is opened

 You'll also need to enter your username for signing your edits:

 It might be worth considering whether our new users would be better off if
 the GettingStarted tiddler contained something like that.


It's a tricky one.

TiddlyWiki Classic links directly to the config tiddlers like SiteTitle. It
doesn't do that for the username because it is not stored as a tiddler.

In TW5 we have the control panel as the central place for configuring
TiddlyWiki. GettingStarted could link directly to the underlying tiddlers,
but it would bypass the control panel, losing an opportunity to teach the
user where these configuration options live.

So, we could:

* Link directly to specific tabs in the control panel (we wouldn't be able
to highlight particular controls)
* Embed the edit controls necessary for these settings, duplicating the
associated control panel functionality

I'm not sure the best way to go. I do think there's a big benefit in
helping the user to customise the wiki up front, because I suspect that the
user is more invested in the wiki if they've customised it. But maybe the
way to do that is via a getting started *wizard*, a separate html file
(like upgrade.html) that steps users through the process of selecting
options for setting up a new wiki.


 2. Step number three, Click the red  in the sidebar on the right 
 is unnecessary and confusing. The New User is going to be working with the
 Empty.html as downloaded. That file is preconfigured to Autosave whenever
 the user clicks on the tick mark button that accepts the changes to the
 tiddler. The only time the New User will need to hit the button described
 in step 3 is when they make a change to control panel settings. This
 statement should be included in the GettingStarted after the statements
 that reference the Control Panel.


The trouble here is that it depends on the browser - the behaviour
described is what Chrome users will see, for example. As discussed above,
we could make GettingStarted be browser specific, but that implies bringing
in quite a lot of browser detection code that is currently in a plugin for
tiddlywiki.com.


 By my reckoning, no one who can figure out how to change the Autosave
 setting qualifies as a brand new user.

 3. For the New User, the most important aspect of the Getting Started
 process and the first thing I would mention is how to make sure you can
 actually save the tiddlers you create. There aren't many things as
 frustrating as spending time working on something only to have it vanish
 into the ether. Accordingly, I would have the first thing they see be
 something about checking the setup.


Check, that was the goal of the current text, which is 80% about saving
changes.


 4. Do we expect there to be any members of the target audience using
 TiddlyDesktop? My guess is no. And the line basically says that if you are
 using TiddlyDesktop, you don't have to worry about what this tiddler says.
 I would delete it unless the goal is to promote TiddlyDesktop.


The reference to TiddlyDesktop is really a symptom of the fundamental
problem with this draft: phrasing instructions that are useful on all the
different platforms that the user may have chosen to use TiddlyWiki.


 5. I would include the lines about the TiddlyFox addin including the links
 here rather than forcing the New User to go back to the main site to read
 it.


We could link direct to TiddlyFox.


 And while I'm making suggestions, I wouldn't force the new user to leave
 the tiddler to go get information about installing addins so they can make
 TiddlyWiki work. If you don't want to include all that and the plugin in
 the basic empty set, you can always have the user tell the program what
 browser they are using and have the program load the appropriate file 

[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-13 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
I think it's important to remember who are target audience is with the 
Empty file's GettingStarted tiddler. The audience for this tiddler is the 
new or inexperienced user. The experienced user doesn't need it and 
probably replaces it without even reading it. 

With that in mind, I have a few critiques and suggestions for the 
GettingStarted tiddler.

1. All reference to the Control Panel has been removed. By comparison, the 
GettingStarted tiddler for the classic version contained essentially 
nothing but references to what are now control panel functions. For those 
who have forgotten, the GettingStarted tiddler for the classic version 
contained just five lines which were:

To get started with this blank TiddlyWiki, you'll need to modify the 
following tiddlers:

   - SiteTitle  SiteSubtitle: The title and subtitle of the site, as shown 
   above (after saving, they will also appear in the browser title bar)
   - MainMenu: The menu (usually on the left)
   - DefaultTiddlers: Contains the names of the tiddlers that you want to 
   appear when the TiddlyWiki is opened

You'll also need to enter your username for signing your edits: 

It might be worth considering whether our new users would be better off if 
the GettingStarted tiddler contained something like that.

2. Step number three, Click the red in the sidebar on the right  is 
unnecessary and confusing. The New User is going to be working with the 
Empty.html as downloaded. That file is preconfigured to Autosave whenever 
the user clicks on the tick mark button that accepts the changes to the 
tiddler. The only time the New User will need to hit the button described 
in step 3 is when they make a change to control panel settings. This 
statement should be included in the GettingStarted after the statements 
that reference the Control Panel.

By my reckoning, no one who can figure out how to change the Autosave 
setting qualifies as a brand new user.

3. For the New User, the most important aspect of the Getting Started 
process and the first thing I would mention is how to make sure you can 
actually save the tiddlers you create. There aren't many things as 
frustrating as spending time working on something only to have it vanish 
into the ether. Accordingly, I would have the first thing they see be 
something about checking the setup. 

4. Do we expect there to be any members of the target audience using 
TiddlyDesktop? My guess is no. And the line basically says that if you are 
using TiddlyDesktop, you don't have to worry about what this tiddler says. 
I would delete it unless the goal is to promote TiddlyDesktop.

5. I would include the lines about the TiddlyFox addin including the links 
here rather than forcing the New User to go back to the main site to read 
it.

And while I'm making suggestions, I wouldn't force the new user to leave 
the tiddler to go get information about installing addins so they can make 
TiddlyWiki work. If you don't want to include all that and the plugin in 
the basic empty set, you can always have the user tell the program what 
browser they are using and have the program load the appropriate file with 
an html iframe statement. It might be something like iframe width=100% 
height=650 style=border:none; 
src=http://tiddlywiki.com/firefoxstart.html; scrolling=yes/iframe. 

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Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-12 Thread Jeremy Ruston
I've simplified empty.html's GettingStarted to remove the tabs. I think, at
least for the moment, that we should keep it simple, and link to help
material elsewhere.

I've uploaded a new prerelease to:

http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/empty.html

Best wishes

Jeremy


On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Mat matiasg...@gmail.com wrote:

 Stephen Kimmel wrote:

 prof. Kimmel? prof Kimmel?!? hmm. prof Kimmel. I like it.


 Hehe - my chrystal ball had unusually good reception so I could clearly
 read professor on that lab coat name tab, in spite of all your waving
 with those Skinneresque electrodes over their heads, over there at the
 TiddlyInstitite.

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Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-12 Thread Tobias Beer
Hi Jeremy,
 

 I've simplified empty.html's GettingStarted to remove the tabs. I think, 
 at least for the moment, that we should keep it simple, and link to help 
 material elsewhere.


I think that's a good approach. Tabs add complexity and would only help in 
this context if numbered. There could be a few more headlines, e.g.

*Create* (tiddlers)

*Save* (tiddlywiki)

*Explore* (tags, macros, templates, etc.)

...each with either the ui features to use, e.g. buttons, indicating what 
to do ...or definitions lists with summaries and links pointing towards the 
corresponding topics on tiddlywiki.com... similar to 
http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#Core.

I see if I can't give it a try at what that could look like.
anyhow, I think this is a very important topic to keep newcomers confident 
...and motivated to explore!

Perhaps, this is a good opportunity to introduce the most simplistic 
(implementation of a) widget rendering a headings toc with clickable 
links... so as to have that toc at the top of a tiddler while being able to 
jump to a topic further down the tiddler.

Best wishes, Tobias.

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Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-12 Thread Tobias Beer


 simplified 


So, yes, I think this is the baseline for GettingStarted in empty.html: 
KISS.
*K*eep *I*t *S*mart / *S*mall / *S*tupid... but, above all, *S*imple.

Best wishes, Tobias.

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-11 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki


On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 5:28:43 PM UTC-6, Mat wrote:

 Apropos the current lab rat experiments 
 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/rDRWHh9r6TA/v9IC6pNa7U0J 
 prof. Kimmel is doing ;-)  .. and apropos the absolutely incredible boost 
 we have in these matters since Jeremys moratoruim, here's a suggestion for 
 the very first tiddler that someone meets when opening an empty tw. The 
 hope is to pull them in more and really have them try out stuff so that 
 they don't give up prematurely before seeing the light.

 *Immediate* help is a key factor IMO so this introduces a new concept 
 targeting this 100%. Please consider the genericness of my proposal for 
 how to provide help there. It is adaptable to whatever best solution we 
 have at that moment, and for that particular issue, instead of e.g static 
 documents. It also makes it possible to give multiple solutions to a 
 problem (assuming we have those multiple solutions).

 Ok, please click on both the images to see the details and explanations (I 
 hope the images open full size or I'll provide another way in next post).


prof. Kimmel? prof Kimmel?!? hmm. prof Kimmel. I like it.

I like where both Mat's and Jeremy's GettingStarted pages are going. I 
think the obviously available help with the readily recognized icon would 
be especially useful. Whether we do this in the main Empty or in a Empty 
with Help edition, is almost irrelevant.  The inexperienced users need 
something more than the blank sheet of paper the current Empty contains.


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Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-11 Thread Mat
Jeremy wrote:

 I admire your ability to turn around mockups, they work really well and 
 communicate very clearly.


It means a lot for me to hear this from you, Jeremy. Thank you! 
 

I've actually also thought about having a help mode, I think it could 
 work well, but obviously not something I want to do during the moratorium.


Moratorium in deed, a very justified decision! And your suggestion for what 
to focus on meanwhile is causing an incredible thunder in the discussions; 
while I'm not sure we're seeing *actual* documentation being produced, your 
suggestion has very much shifted *attention* to be about what we can do to 
guide newcomers and documentation in general. Fantastic!

This Help mode idea is more about documentation infrastructure (and not 
for moratorium time), but it is *two sided*; Obviously it should help 
newcomers to access help-  but it's really also about actually producing 
documentation, even if indirectly: The plentitude of help from the 
mini-links, interspersed at locations in TW where we see need and linking 
to whichever documentation best dealing with that issue (and regardless if 
text, video,..) should *encourage* community individuals to produce *actual* 
documentation because it would give recognition to their individual 
efforts. I'd think the majority of community members have never had 
anything publically recognized and would feel proud if their effort was put 
up publically. Of course, there's still a good enough threshold to pass - 
but  opening up for any format for any help allows the, say, video guy to 
help where he woudn't if it was limited to e.g text. The great need for 
help we're beginning to recognize and which is obvious from the sheer 
number of questions on the boards, means we can't afford to be too picky - 
at this stage (...IMO). The documents etc would refine gradually, and like 
in e.g Wikipedia, there could be notes saying this article needs ___ . 
While Wikipedia leaves a lot to be desired, its undisputed world wide 
success and it's status as the #1 information reference obviously relies on 
a community doing what individuals never could. Gradual refinement. 
Besides, the forms in which people produce documentation (choice of format 
but also e.g style) also reflects the forms for what is needed. An adult 
academic expresses him or herself very differently from a gaming teenager - 
but we want TW to appeal to both. Documentation is merely the means not the 
goal. (Being helped is the goal ;-)

An extension for this mini help links is to have it configurable 
according to need. A beginner gets the default links as illustrated above. 
An intermediate user goes into ctrl panes, switches to intermediate help 
mode, which hides some mini help links and displays some others which 
point to help at that level. Or, CSS help mode to have that help topic 
accessible. A theme developer adds a theme help providing special for 
that theme. Help is not always needed - but *access* to help is. (And, in 
my proposal, this *access* is enabled with that single green button.)

Almost ironic: So elegant and simple in one sense, but just like paper and 
pen, yet it takes everyone several years before one can master it possibly 
even schooling. So simple, so complex.

 

 I'm keen to get some reworking of GettingStarted for 5.1.6 (which is now a 
 few days overdue) so I've incorporated some of your ideas in an update here:


 https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/2698f088517c186705c390362dd516f2709d7141

 I'd appreciate comments and suggestions.


Will get back on this.

 

 The approach to giving different instructions for different browsers is 
 clumsy. On tiddlywiki.com/index.html we use the browser-sniff plugin that 
 lets us conditionally show material based on the current browser. To use 
 that in GettingStarted we'd need to move that plugin into the core.


I obviously have no idea what the cost in terms of file size, etc would be 
- but maybe for a getting started edition it's justified? 

Of, if staying with different instructions, maybe the impression could be 
softened a bit by using icons for each browser (riding on 
familiarity/identification factor). Click icon opens slider showing the 
relevant instrux. (Detail; these icons should ideally be listed next to 
eachothers, not below, because they are not a sequence but instead a, um, 
road fork.)
 
  

 I do wonder whether these blow-by-blow instructions are appropriate in 
 empty.html. The alternative would be to have a getting started edition 
 (perhaps the same as the introduction edition) that is specially geared 
 to taking the user step-by-step through the installation and saving 
 process. Once the user has achieved that tutorial then maybe they'd be best 
 served with an empty.html that was relatively brief, mostly being links to 
 material elsewhere.


IMO, there should be one minimial core version and one guided edition 
designed to prevent every beginner misstep we've 

[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-11 Thread Mat
Stephen Kimmel wrote:

 prof. Kimmel? prof Kimmel?!? hmm. prof Kimmel. I like it.


Hehe - my chrystal ball had unusually good reception so I could clearly 
read professor on that lab coat name tab, in spite of all your waving 
with those Skinneresque electrodes over their heads, over there at the 
TiddlyInstitite. 

:-)

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-10 Thread Mat


Yes, the tab would be immediately doable (as displayed here 
http://mockup-sidebar-search.tiddlyspot.com/#GettingStarted, by Tobias 
apropos another discussion 
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1066#issuecomment-65936620). 
But I think that most of these things (and what I'm about to show below) we 
already have almost all the pieces for. But then, I'm no programmer ;-)

What, as you put it, sort of help is IMO not really an issue - I mean, 
you can ask that same question about the help we are currently providing. 
The answer is probably; the best kind of help we've managed to scrape 
together for the moment. Anything is better than nothing.

Anyway, over night the ol' brain decided to bring forth yet a touch; to use 
the sidebar Help tab itself as the area for this help presentation! Here 
are some furtherifications:


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JzvH0eJ_7cE/VIhJv2-qcQI/O_0/mFe5u-uE_WE/s1600/empty_welcome_help_clicklink_help1.png

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SIBF_SWYeiA/VIhJU2q4TcI/O_s/lJf4_cSyIzM/s1600/empty_welcome_help_clicklink_help2.png

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Exm3O3K0vUU/VIhJLT3rvNI/O_k/cM2UWBdbJT0/s1600/empty_welcome_help_clicklink_help3.png




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Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-10 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Mat

I admire your ability to turn around mockups, they work really well and
communicate very clearly.

I've actually also thought about having a help mode, I think it could
work well, but obviously not something I want to do during the moratorium.

I'm keen to get some reworking of GettingStarted for 5.1.6 (which is now a
few days overdue) so I've incorporated some of your ideas in an update here:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/2698f088517c186705c390362dd516f2709d7141

I'd appreciate comments and suggestions. The approach to giving different
instructions for different browsers is clumsy. On tiddlywiki.com/index.html
we use the browser-sniff plugin that lets us conditionally show material
based on the current browser. To use that in GettingStarted we'd need to
move that plugin into the core.

I do wonder whether these blow-by-blow instructions are appropriate in
empty.html. The alternative would be to have a getting started edition
(perhaps the same as the introduction edition) that is specially geared
to taking the user step-by-step through the installation and saving
process. Once the user has achieved that tutorial then maybe they'd be best
served with an empty.html that was relatively brief, mostly being links to
material elsewhere.

Note that one feature that is implemented is that the Saving tab of
GettingStarted is swapped out for different material when using the
client-server edition.

I've also updated the prerelease:

http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/empty.html

I haven't embedded the video because there are some privacy issues - as
things stand, Google/YouTube would get pinged each time empty.html was
opened (including when opened locally from a file: URI). We need a new
video macro that displays a local static thumbnail until it is clicked.

Best wishes

Jeremy.


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mat matiasg...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes, the tab would be immediately doable (as displayed here
 http://mockup-sidebar-search.tiddlyspot.com/#GettingStarted, by Tobias
 apropos another discussion
 https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1066#issuecomment-65936620).
 But I think that most of these things (and what I'm about to show below) we
 already have almost all the pieces for. But then, I'm no programmer ;-)

 What, as you put it, sort of help is IMO not really an issue - I mean,
 you can ask that same question about the help we are currently providing.
 The answer is probably; the best kind of help we've managed to scrape
 together for the moment. Anything is better than nothing.

 Anyway, over night the ol' brain decided to bring forth yet a touch; to
 use the sidebar Help tab itself as the area for this help presentation!
 Here are some furtherifications:



 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JzvH0eJ_7cE/VIhJv2-qcQI/O_0/mFe5u-uE_WE/s1600/empty_welcome_help_clicklink_help1.png


 https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SIBF_SWYeiA/VIhJU2q4TcI/O_s/lJf4_cSyIzM/s1600/empty_welcome_help_clicklink_help2.png


 https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Exm3O3K0vUU/VIhJLT3rvNI/O_k/cM2UWBdbJT0/s1600/empty_welcome_help_clicklink_help3.png




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Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-10 Thread Tobias Beer
Hi Jeremy,
 

 I do wonder whether these blow-by-blow instructions are appropriate in 
 empty.html. The alternative would be to have a getting started edition 
 (perhaps the same as the introduction edition) that is specially geared 
 to taking the user step-by-step through the installation and saving 
 process. Once the user has achieved that tutorial then maybe they'd be best 
 served with an empty.html that was relatively brief, mostly being links to 
 material elsewhere.


Perhaps *GettingStarted* on *TiddlyWiki.com* (!) should really be a very 
short questionaire that guides the user to an awareness of what they want 
to or are able to do with this thing, e.g.: Do you plan on using TW 
online or local? Then suggest the appropriate actions. What is your 
expertise? Beginner, Advanced, Pro... link to some appropriate context, 
e.g. simple tutorials  markup, then templates, macros, widgets and finally 
plugins, developer stuff, making an app. Would you be interested in this 
or this or this usecase? ...then links to some reference material.

Eventually, the visitor has a clear vision of what he is looking for / 
wants to start out with ...and some straight answers as to what he can 
expect and how to get things going.

http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/empty.html


I think that definitely goes in the right direction.

Best wishes, Tobias.

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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-10 Thread Julio Peña
Hello all,

@Mat...great stuff!...I find that TutWiki (tutorial wiki) mock layout 
pretty nifty.
I like how the Quickstart tiddler lights up the relevant info in the help 
tab on the sidebar.
Definitely will grab my attention as a regular user.
Just my two cents worth.

Best regards to all,

Julio

On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 6:28:43 PM UTC-5, Mat wrote:

 Apropos the current lab rat experiments 
 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/rDRWHh9r6TA/v9IC6pNa7U0J 
 prof. Kimmel is doing ;-)  .. and apropos the absolutely incredible boost 
 we have in these matters since Jeremys moratoruim, here's a suggestion for 
 the very first tiddler that someone meets when opening an empty tw. The 
 hope is to pull them in more and really have them try out stuff so that 
 they don't give up prematurely before seeing the light.

 *Immediate* help is a key factor IMO so this introduces a new concept 
 targeting this 100%. Please consider the genericness of my proposal for 
 how to provide help there. It is adaptable to whatever best solution we 
 have at that moment, and for that particular issue, instead of e.g static 
 documents. It also makes it possible to give multiple solutions to a 
 problem (assuming we have those multiple solutions).

 Ok, please click on both the images to see the details and explanations (I 
 hope the images open full size or I'll provide another way in next post).




 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a4dfN3KUrWA/VIeAFSw65gI/O_U/qdHbpJZQHTc/s1600/empty_welcome_help_explanation.png


 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9R-heO3bKoU/VId_1cv5f7I/O_M/Ql6pkdp4KEc/s1600/empty_welcome_help_2.png


 :-)

 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9R-heO3bKoU/VId_1cv5f7I/O_M/Ql6pkdp4KEc/s1600/empty_welcome_help_2.png


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[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible help system

2014-12-09 Thread Jed Carty
I like the idea, I am not sure how hard implementing a help mode would be, 
but the tab on the sidebar would be straightforward enough. The question 
would be what sort of help should be provided there or how it is presented.
Do we have any people with a graphic design or technical writing background 
in this group? If so we should probably try to bribe them to for input on 
effective layout and the like. I have learned I am very bad at both layout 
and giving feedback on it, so I will just say I like the idea. 

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