I ran across a thread on Twitter a little while back which pointed out that Roam's popularity first exploded among the so-called "Rationalist" community on the internet (associated with the websites LessWrong and SlateStarCodex).
https://twitter.com/melissamcewen/status/1277465062010163200 On Friday, September 18, 2020 at 5:27:17 AM UTC-4 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > David Gifford wrote: >> >> I guess you will all need to blame me. >> > > Nah. It was good & opened a lot of useful directions for TW. > Power to your elbow & its active greasing. > > MY point in the OP is that (a) the concepts Roam advances are NOT new; (b) > that its approach plays on concepts of linkage that are (i) well worn; (ii) > packaged to look innovative; (c) TW can DO all of them and more, no problem > (which your Strolling showed). It is not a big deal. I care less they make > money from that than *consume informational space*. > > IMO the underlying issue is that, generally, on web, there is a very poor > depiction/explanation of link/tag strategies, Despite their ubiquity & > necessity. And that marketing of some non-linear solutions exploits that > fact. > > Better concepts are needed. And *LEAFED* (i.e. the process of grown > differentiation from interacting primitives to redolent outcomes) examples > in TW would aid that AND help promote TW. > > Best wishes > TT > -- 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/d8c05178-d966-4940-bdc4-390885274b12n%40googlegroups.com.
