David, I see my efforts as complementary to The-Book. At least as it was when I last took a look at it, The-Book is focused mostly on how the internal bits of TiddlyWiki fit together and can be customized, although it does include scattered mentions of more basic concepts. Reading my book would prepare you to move on to The-Book if you had more advanced customization needs than I plan to cover – I'll point out things like global macros, CSS, view/edit/page templates, adding buttons, etc., but won't get too deep into them or try to list out all the possible hooks. I won't get very far into JavaScript either (partly because I don't know it very well, lol).
The videos are an interesting idea. I tend to be biased against videos as a learning method myself, just because for whatever reason my brain doesn't get along that well with video in general (I don't even watch movies or TV for entertainment more than once a month or so). But I recognize a lot of people find them very helpful, and I've done screencasts before and don't mind recording them. Perhaps it could be a future add-on to the book (maybe a premium version? hmm). I'm not convinced it would be easier to update, though. I've been here before, and if the interface changes significantly you pretty much have to re-record the whole video. In a book you can just rewrite the relevant sentences. For the same reason, I try to put as few screenshots in my documentation as possible. @ludwa6, I like this idea of layers or rings of TiddlyWiki knowledge. I don't think there's space to fit a "reading TiddlyWikis on the internet" portion into this book the way it's structured, so that's a space for someone else to fill, but assuming that you want to have a TiddlyWiki and edit it, I hope my chapter divisions will help with this. To the extent that I am able while also keeping related content together, I'm trying to build it so you can reasonably stop studying at any point when you've learned what you need for the time being, and come back later (or never). I've explicitly called that out in the introduction. The chapters right now are: 1. "The Shape of TiddlyWiki" (tiddlers, fields, links, tags, creating tiddlers and dividing things into tiddlers) 2. "Filing and Organizing" (searching, browsing tiddlers, choosing titles, creating tables of contents) 3. "Filtering and Formatting" (filters, brief introduction to HTML and widgets, creating lists) 4. "Macros, Variables, and Transclusions" (self-explanatory) 5. "More Organizational Tools" (everything that didn't fit in 2-4, including ordering lists, filters with multiple runs, attachments, tabs, and data tiddlers) – this is the only chapter I'm concerned about from an ordering perspective right now, and I'll keep thinking about it; some might be able to move into 2 now that I've split 2 and 3 up 6. "Looking Under the Hood" (system tiddlers, plugins, putting things in TiddlyWiki's interface by tagging them appropriately, input widgets and buttons, a couple of projects) 7. "Getting Technical" (JavaScript macros, creating plugins, CSS, Node.JS) Plus front matter, supplemental exercises, resources, and a couple of short appendices. I don't want to derail this thread by steering it into a critique of the chapter divisions, but if you see anything that looks terribly wrong, let me know. -- 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/e847f7ec-4518-4189-ad66-f99799b7ce3bn%40googlegroups.com.
