Most fascinating! My colleague Peter Fuggle and I have been reflecting recently on the parallels between the neurodevelopmental phases that lead to a mature, adapted brain, and the growth patterns of the TW treatment/case management manual that I have supplied links for.
The human brain starts with an explosion or efflorescence of branching and linking (though synapses) of brain cells to each other. Then, from mid childhood and rapidly accelerating through adolescence (probably the defining feature of adolescent brain development), the whole developmental process goes into reverse, with synapses being shed - so that the brain is literally 'moulting'. However the links that "moult" and are lost, are those that simply are not carrying traffic. Those links that ARE carrying traffic may even recruit extra links - thus the brain's plasticity adapts its machinery to the functions it is being called upon to perform. The development of our manual has been (and continues to be) somewhat similar - multiple iterations slowly evolve more efficient pathways and links/tags/plugins/macros can be shed when they are found to be superfluous. A tool to measure which are the key pathways, and the under-used by-ways, would be a powerful tool in the collaborative authoring of practically-oriented wiki-based information sets. Best Dickon On Oct 28, 9:58 am, Alex Hough <r.a.ho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This is an interesting thread. Here are some obserations on my own TW use > and some thoughts. > > Task Timer > I like TaskTimer and have played about with it. What happened was that i > forgot to switch it off; the excitement of the next task was such that my > self monitoring intentions went out the window. > > Editing time = problem solving time. > I think that recording the time tiddlers are being edited would be > interesting. It is not a tiddler's position in the story that directly > correlates to the attention i personally give each chunk of information. > Rather it is the editing of it. If the time spent editing a tiddler could be > recorded in the tiddler, along with 'created', 'modified' etc then the > tiddlers could be listed by this variable. > > Cowpaths and time spent editing > I've manually generated lists of well trodden trails and put them in the > sidebar next to timeline. (I called it 'cowpath' after the 'pave the > cowpath' pattern [1].) I found that I wanted my cowpath to change as I > progressed. For example, at the start I'd be always opening PageTemplate, > ViewTemplate and StyleSheet, but as I progressed into the content of the TW > i would no longer need these. A list tiddlers listed by 5 most pondered > could be a good addition to the navigation system. > > Taxonomic Patterns in the mind as viewed as tiddler metadata > Once set up, once all the TW mechanism stuff has been tweeked, It could be > interesting to compare relationships between tags and time spent being > edited. One might be able to see patterns. For example It might be possible > to map out where in a hierachy of ideas your attention was being spent. it > is easy to get distracted along a path you find most enjoyable, but if your > attention patterns were able to be viewed it might help with creativity. I'm > thinking of a particualr creativity technique here - morphological analysis. > > Ones perceptions of time spent thinking on certain topics are subjective. If > you goal was to follow the path you thought most enjoyable and you though > that you had spent less time on it than you really had -the illusion that > the boring things make time drag skewing your perception - you would be > subconsciously diverting from your consciously chosen path. Then when > assessing your performance against your self set subconscious goals, you > might create a delusion of in-efficiency for your self. > > Plan - Do - Review > I am not sure if this is a formal learning model. I was introduced to it as > one use of the internal triange of a > Gurdjieff<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Gurdjieff>enneagram [2] as > a 'chicken bones' method of systems analysis in production > engineering. I've often though how to craft an eneagram structure on a TW. > They are both non-linear navigation systems > > Do - editing open tiddler > Review is viewing tiddler on top. I always drag a tiddler to the top > Plan - ???? > > TW and the mind > Using a TW is about sorting and working with ideas. My personal interest is > in making a personal tool if not by osmosis, a structure which i build > between the tool and the mind, both impacting on each other - a structural > coupling if you like. > > phew, time for a brew > > Alex > > [1]http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php?title=Pa... > [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Way_Enneagram > > 2009/10/26 Eric Shulman <elsdes...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > I like the idea; it could be used to track your work - how much you spend > > on > > > a particular idea. > > >http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#TaskTimerPlugin > > > is specificially suited to tracking 'how much time' you spend on a > > task. It provides a pushbutton that, when clicked, starts a timer. > > When you click it again, the timer stops, and you are prompted to > > enter the title of a tiddler (default='ActivityLog') and a task > > description (default=blank). > > > The plugin then writes a row of a TW table into that 'log' tiddler, > > with the description, starttime, endtime and elapsed time. Each time > > you start/stop a task timer button, it adds another row to the table, > > creating a cumulative record of activities. > > > You can, of course, track different tasks in different 'log' tiddlers. > > Thus, you could have project-specific or task-specific logs (e.g., > > Project1Log, Project2Log, etc.). You can also create multiple task > > timer buttons, each targeted at a different 'log', so that rather than > > asking for a target tiddler title, each button always writes to a > > specific target, so you could have one button for Project1 and a > > different button for Project2. > > > enjoy, > > -e > > --http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
