Finally someone gets it! On Fri, May 8, 2020, 10:29 AM Ed Heil <edh...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> This is outstanding. I feel like it could completely transform how one > works with tiddlywikis. > > Right now it feels like the learning path for a new tiddlywiki user is > > * use links because they're easy and basic > * realize you can't rename tiddlers without a lot of work -- grab a plugin > to fix it, or start looking into tags, which do auto-renaming completely > * realize a lot of the most powerful ways of linking things together > involves tags, because a tag establishes a two-way link between the tag > tiddler and the tagged tiddler, and the relationship persists through > renames. > > At least, that was the path for me. > > But there's a discontinuity between fluent "writing and linking" and > "learning to do things effectively with tags" which requires effort to > cross. > > With this, you get a lot of the benefits that right now require tags, > without having to make that extra jump of learning. It keeps things more > traditionally wiki-like, text-oriented. > > I wonder if the future of Tiddlywiki is going to involve incorporating > some kind of backlinking. > > One small downside for me: it's a bummer that the autocomplete plugin > doesn't allow you to just click on one of the completions, as opposed to > moving down onto them with arrow keys, because I'm often on mobile where I > have no arrow keys. Oh well, I can disable that, it's a peripheral issue. > I appreciate the fact that it was called out in the tutorial so I knew what > was going on there. > > Anyway, congratulations on this achievement. > > > On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 11:04:17 AM UTC-4, David Gifford wrote: >> >> Hi everyone >> >> Stroll is a TiddlyWiki adaptation imitating certain features of Roam to >> help users easily see connections between their notes and navigate between >> them. Features include: >> >> - bi-directional links, >> - autocompletion when linking, >> - renaming of links upon changing tiddler titles, >> - side-by-side editing of multiple notes. >> >> Stroll is the successor to TiddlyBlink. I do not plan to update >> TiddlyBlink (or its cousin Idea Stew) from here on out, except may be to >> upgrade to new versions of TiddlyWiki. >> >> I have uploaded Stroll to its official home: >> https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html. >> >> I am hoping that its detailed tutorial will help introduce TiddlyWiki to >> a new generation of non-techy users. I am also hoping that its similarity >> to Roam will make it attractive to those who enjoy Roam but are concerned >> about privacy issues for some of their information, or who won't be able to >> afford Roam when it begins charging a subscription. >> >> Thank you to everyone who gave me feedback during the experimental phase, >> and especially to Saq Imtiaz for creating and adapting his Stories plugin >> for Stroll's needs. And thanks to all of you *in advance* for your >> continued feedback and your promotion of Stroll as an easy way of getting >> people added to the TiddlyWiki community. >> >> Blessings. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/GqqWdGnFb94/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/119468f8-fdb5-4a83-b7be-544c899dd874%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/119468f8-fdb5-4a83-b7be-544c899dd874%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CANE%3DBFLQ2353igAAaNBwQ394BkSASj9MpGEst7fbcsGEw3Rmeg%40mail.gmail.com.
