Hi Soren, I'd like to participate. I am in the beginner-intermediate category, currently working on making an FAQ Wiki at work and trying to figure out how to make the different pieces fit together. I don't have a programming background, although I'm fairly tech-savvy. Going through the official documentation was a bit painful, with much jargo, so I've had to look for definitions of some concepts and examples myself, so something to ease that transition would be welcome.
Thanks On Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 8:27:32 AM UTC-5 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > 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/00292c0c-8558-486e-b94a-7d943e8e15e4n%40googlegroups.com.
