[tw] Today's Date

2010-01-26 Thread flyingpackman
I need some help. This should be an easy one. I am working on a daily devotional wiki. I have created a tiddler for each day of the year containing the reading assignment as well as a thought for the day. I named them, January 1, January 2, etc. Right now I have to navigate to the correct date

[tw] Document indexing and preparation

2010-01-26 Thread mOede
Hello Group, I am so excited to jump in to the world of TW. I came across it just a week ago, and have already had several "light bulb" moments for things that I want to pursue with TW as a tool. For one such item, I would like to get some general design guidance. As I'm not a very proficient pr

[tw] Re: How do I create navigation menu like this one

2010-01-26 Thread shavinder
You can see how Eric has done it in his http://www.tiddlytools.com/quickstart/basics.html#MainMenu on the tw you refer to. To do the same you will need to learn about: 1. in-built slider macro, which you can learn from here: http://twhelp.tiddlyspot.com/#[[Macros%20Built-in]] 2. applying borderle

[tw] Re: How do I create navigation menu like this one

2010-01-26 Thread twgrp
http://tw.lewcid.org/#AccordionMenuPlugin On Jan 27, 3:41 am, Claudio wrote: > Quite like the MainMenu ofhttp://www.tiddlytools.com/quickstart/basics.html > > Wonder how to create one like that. Not sure whether multiple words > can be used as well, like: > > Chapter 1 >  | Section name >  | Sect

[tw] How do I create navigation menu like this one

2010-01-26 Thread Claudio
Quite like the MainMenu of http://www.tiddlytools.com/quickstart/basics.html Wonder how to create one like that. Not sure whether multiple words can be used as well, like: Chapter 1 | Section name | Section name | Section name | Section name Chapter 2 | Section name | Section name | Sectio

[tw] Re: Shortening list by categorizing items

2010-01-26 Thread twgrp
Thank you so much Måns! Your coding taught me many valuable bits. I have reworked your code and put up the result here; http://groupies.tiddlyspot.com/ (username=password=groupies) (A smaller/simpler list-tool for "few item lists" is also there, i.e lists that don't require grouping.) However, t

[tw] Re: Fun with Nesting!

2010-01-26 Thread Måns
Errata > +++[Click to see field a|of tiddler: $1]]...$2=== > +++[Click to see field b|of tiddler: $1]]...$3=== Should have been; +++[Click to see field a|of tiddler: $1]...$2=== +++[Click to see field b|of tiddler: $1]...$3=== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[tw] Re: Fun with Nesting!

2010-01-26 Thread Måns
The tiddlermacro with: (<>) might the key.. > < ("tagA")' > write > '"|"+tiddler.title+"|"+ > "+++[Click to see Field a:|tooltip]tiddler.data("long field > a")"+"|"+tiddler.data("feild b")+"|"+tiddler.data("field c") > +"|"+tiddler.data("fieldd")+"|\n"' > You can transclude a nested slider

[tw] Re: Fun with Nesting!

2010-01-26 Thread Måns
Hi Link Check out the post: "Shortening list by categorizing items" http://groups.google.dk/group/tiddlywiki/t/1fbe42d7d2911566? I've made a minimal testcase, where I use nested sliders in a fET.. Please tell if you can make it work with datavalues as well... Regards Måns Mårtensson On 26 Jan.,

Re: Using MonkeyGTD on Android

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Pastuszak
The Android browser would not let me write to the SD card, so my test only allowed read only access. So close... I emailed the Dolphin developer to see if there was something I was missing, Waiting to hear back. Andy On Jan 26, 2010 8:59 AM, "Colin" wrote: How is the performance? I tried th

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread HansWobbe
On Jan 26, 12:17 pm, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > That's beautiful, I love the idea of TiddlyWiki as a productive > displacement activity. > The text of this post (and indeed, the spirit of this whole community that it represents) may be one of the best endorsements of "open source" that I've come a

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Hough
Neil, Thanks for your answer. It is interesting that you are using TW for a dissertation on knowledge management, and that you are encountering problems in with the sharing of knowledge (see top of thread). Its good to have some problems, it generates some uncertainty for learning. The resulting t

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Neil Olonoff
Alex, You asked: What do you mean about the "relationality" of knowledge? How one bit is > related to an others? > Once again, you have asked a very deep question. I am writing my dissertation on the relational dimension of knowledge management, and using TiddlyWiki to do it! It is difficult to

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Hough
I wonder if identifying a handful of new concepts (<7) that could help people progress from the TW user group to the Dev group would be useful. TW users have grasped tiddlers and links, tags, editting, shadow tiddlers, for me the dependancy problems start when the data contained in the tiddlers nee

[tw] Fun with Nesting!

2010-01-26 Thread Linck Atlanta, Ga
So, I really just discovered nesting, which is a lot of fun and very helpful. I have used it in several places for a dramatically clutter- free effect... very nice. Now I want to take it to another level, but cant seem to make it work. This is what I am trying to do: <> So that this list will

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Hough
Neil, What do you mean about the "relationality" of knowledge? How one bit is related to an others? Alex 2010/1/26 Neil Olonoff > Alex, > > Regarding KM and Fractals. There are KM folks studying and writing about > groups and organizations as complex adaptive systems. Personally, I am more > f

[tw] Re: Help saving in Safari for Windows Vista

2010-01-26 Thread Mark S.
Unless things have changed, Windows doesn't ship with Java. I think Safari uses java (not the same as javascript!) to save via a jar file. The jar file needs to be in the same directory as your TW file. You can download the saver jar file from Tiddlywiki.com. And, of course, you need to have java

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Neil Olonoff
Alex, Regarding KM and Fractals. There are KM folks studying and writing about groups and organizations as complex adaptive systems. Personally, I am more focused on small group dynamics and the "relationality" of knowledge, so I'm at the other end of the spectrum. I guess crowdsourcing is an exa

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Ruston
OK, here's some things that have been interesting to me for a while: 80s Conway's Life, and particularly the result about self replication - as I understood it from William Poundstone's book, Conway proved that the rules of Life were sufficient for a self-replicating pattern to come into being fro

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Måns
True: > Extreme politeness and willingness to comprehensively solve others' > problems, while very beneficial for most users' immediate needs, can > yield negative long-term effects by stymying deeper understanding and > perpetuating reliance on a small group of established experts. However I feel

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Hough
Jeremy, Can you be drawn a bit more on fractals and self similarity? I think it would be beneficial to hear about some of the abstract motivations behind your creation. This way, TW fans perhaps could understand something at a more abstract level thus enabling them to solve some of the problems th

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Neil Olonoff
Alex, You wrote: >From a knowledge management specialist angle, what can the TW community do > to facilitate the flow of knowledge in such a way that diverts it from the > "negative > long-term effects by stymying deeper understanding and perpetuating reliance > on a small group of established

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Hough
Neal, I couldn't help but notice that you are "Lead, Federal Knowledge Management Initiative", and mentioned this thread to Tudor, an innovation academic i work with this morning. I thought the thread is interesting from the perspective of who the contributors are, where they come from and what th

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Ruston
I really like Måns' comment: > Sometimes I see TiddlyWiki as an almost therapeutic tool - > I think of an almost unmanagable problem - break it up into smaller > pieces - make each piece work and put them together again - and I > discover that the BIG problem already has been solved in the > proce

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Måns
Hi FND > It might simply be a matter of norms, with the likes of Eric > establishing a culture of unusual politeness, helpfulness, friendliness > and patience early on. I like the way you phrase it ... - and I agree. It's been a privilige to get help on this group - and I think it gives you the

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Neil Olonoff
FND You wrote: Well, then let me throw in some controversy, for giggles (since we're way off topic anyway): Extreme politeness and willingness to comprehensively solve others' problems, while very beneficial for most users' immediate needs, can yield negative long-term effects by stymying deeper

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread FND
FND, your gentle yet assertive pointers towards well considered ways of doing things provide a lot of learning opportunities. Well, then let me throw in some controversy, for giggles (since we're way off topic anyway): Extreme politeness and willingness to comprehensively solve others' problem

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Hough
Eric, What do you think? Alex 2010/1/26 shavinder > > It might simply be a matter of norms, with the likes of Eric > > establishing a culture of unusual politeness, helpfulness, friendliness > > and patience early on. > > I would like to express my gratitude for people of this community who >

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Hough
FND, your gentle yet assertive pointers towards well considered ways of doing things provide a lot of learning opportunities. I think both you and Eric deserve a lot of credit. I am curious about Jermemy's subtle touch. Jeremy, are all your projects like this? Alex 2010/1/26 FND > I agree wit

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread shavinder
> It might simply be a matter of norms, with the likes of Eric > establishing a culture of unusual politeness, helpfulness, friendliness > and patience early on. I would like to express my gratitude for people of this community who have helped me whenever I asked for. Especially Eric, who has gone

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread FND
I agree with you when you say "this community really is very much different from most in their willingness to go the extra mile. " An interesting question to investigate would be why this is so. It might simply be a matter of norms, with the likes of Eric establishing a culture of unusual poli

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Neil Olonoff
Alex, Well I can only judge by my own feelings. I like to help people when I can. I can't help much here, since I'm a newbie. But in other communities, I am more expert and can help. I think the genius of TiddlyWiki engenders a lot of enthusiasm. It really is a small miracle of technology, isn't

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Hough
Neil I agree with you when you say "this community really is very much different from most in their willingness to go the extra mile. " An interesting question to investigate would be why this is so. Alex 2010/1/26 Neil Olonoff > many thanks Shavinder. > > This community really is very much

[tw] Re: Saving TW on a file server

2010-01-26 Thread Mark S.
Even if the security is set to "low", if the over-zealous administrator has turned off script languages for the intranet, then IE7 isn't going to run TW. Ironically, the web settings might be higher out on the internet, especially if you can get your host site to be listed as "trusted". Could you r

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Neil Olonoff
many thanks Shavinder. This community really is very much different from most in their willingness to go the extra mile. Neil Neil Olonoff olon...@gmail.com Lead, Federal Knowledge Management Initiative, Federal KM Working Group hosted at http://KM.gov Office: 703.614.5058 (US Army HQDA, G-4

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Hough
Iain problem == "annoying Firefox messages every time I want to save. I know there is a work around somewhere but you'd think it might be in the basic version without me having to find it." how to resolve problem == Do you think that the vanilla TW, the one downloaded from tid

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us

2010-01-26 Thread iain
Actually I think Neil is right. TW is a very flexible tool and I use my various TW's every day. This group is very helpful and friendly. But... TW is still very much in formulation and while it seems to be infinitely customisable you do have to know quite a bit if you are starting from scratch.