Hello, I only discovered TW quite recently and at the moment it appears to me as a very good (maybe the best?) tool for note-taking and documenting. It seems that this is the tool I should have used during the work on my master thesis in physics to document everything that has taken me more than an hour to work out. I took notes on paper and the problem was that I eventually forgot what I have done (especially boring calculations) or tried out and thus did some calculations/ considerations/speculations etc twice or even more often. Another typical problem that I think I could have avoided by using TW: In the moment of writing down everything I am unable to find the right page.
There are a lot of things I like about TW and consider essential for its note-taking/documentation capability: * It is searchable and via the tagged/tagging functionality the content is somehow self-organizing * I like the the simple basic structure of a tiddler (title, tag, contents) which seems to me quite universal and is likely to persist. This is also why TW appears quite transparent to me * As a physics student I like the possibility to take over LaTeX-code using the js-math plugin * I also like the flexibility and portability of TW. As a LInux user I appreciate very much the platform independence of TW and that it is open source. * It seems to have a very active and passionate community That said I am very much tempted to jump at TW completely. But of course I want to be able to use everything I write down in TW also in the not-so-near future. So my questions are: * Is there anything that stands in the way of using TW as a some kind of long-term (say at least ten years) knowledge database? * In particular does anyone have enough insight into the inner workings of TW to tell me whether changes in the workings of for example browsers or software standards (HTML of javascript) might threaten TW in the future. * Do you think TW has a large enough user base to persist for the next ten years? * Is the structure of TW content simple and universal enough that it can be integrated in other kinds of wikis or "knowledge databases" that might come up in the future? What do you think? Kind regards, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to TiddlyWiki@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
