Tones, you have hit the nail on the head. TW is insanely powerful, but not everyone has the time and inclination to tinker around. This observation is accurate for all the tools, Linux vs. Windows for the desktop computers, Vim vs. Visual Studio Code, etc.
I like to customize my tools, and I have done so with many tools I use, like my text editor. But I had to take a break from TiddlyWiki customization because I was busy in other projects. I tried Obsidian but came back to TW, only because I had already collected hundreds of TW notes. Different TW editions will fix this problem considerably. Like we have several Linux distributions to choose from, we should have at least a few well maintained TW editions. Another reason is the lack of a centralized plugin and theme library. If customizing TW mostly involved installing and updating a few plugins from inside the TW, it would mitigate the difficulty for newbies. Currently, you have to scour the forum, Dynalist Toolmaps, and some other TW to find the appropriate solution. It's fun to hack, but it requires resources, most important of which is time. Not all users are time-rich. On Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 6:37:28 AM UTC+5, TW Tones wrote: > > Mat, > > Thanks for sharing this. I watched it and I am confident tiddlywiki is > ultimately superior, being able to address all, if not most features across > the range. The key difference is Tiddlywiki provides the toolset not the > finished product, and possibly most people want the finished product to > meet the 80/20 rule. What would you prefer one plastic toy or a lego set?, > a model crane or a mecano set? > > The Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 rule, states that for many phenomena >> 80% of the result comes from 20% of the effort > > > It is quite possible that editions of tiddlywiki can be developed to > respond in the same way as the named apps. > > However ,where I believe the investment in learning how to build things > pay off many times over, is the user can dictate and customise the result, > they can innovate, reiterate and evolve their solution. Tiddlywiki is an > algorithm storage and activation machine among many other things. > > However it costs time and money to polish a solution and people are > usually happy to get on with the next innovation, rather dedicate time to > polishing the result, that is why tiddlywiki often has a makers and hackers > look. However polishing can reduce flexibility and actually involves > enforced simplification, so perhaps polished is not as flash as it could be. > > Can we join the world of polished solutions with tiddlywiki?, perhaps!, > should we ?, I think that is debatable! Not withstanding that, we can make > a plugin or package for that polished look. > > Personally to me, there is more value entering an open source eco-system, > based on common open technologies, than taking a bet on a third party. If > Tiddlywiki ceased to be a going concern from tomorrow, I still have a life > time of opportunity already on my computer. Through open source, we benefit > from the pooling of effort, the wisdom of crowds, diversity of community > and generosity of strangers, as well as a culture capable of growth and > reinvention. > > As someone who monitors innovation in Information Technology, I observe > most innovations out there, are amenable to implementation on tiddlywiki, > in open source, anything can be done, if you gather a cohort of people who > see sufficient value in enabling such innovations. The more the need, the > more the likelihood. > > Regards > TW Tones > > > On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 01:12:24 UTC+10, Mat wrote: >> >> I didn't listen carefully but it is still an interesting video comparing >> the features of some prominent note taking software. It may be >> interesting to see what specific features they bring up so if TW wants to >> compete then.... >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opSENgc45Sw >> >> <:-) >> > -- 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/a021c78c-5ff3-4029-b471-cb4b10185834o%40googlegroups.com.
