I don't (yet) understand enough about the tech to know which of your two possible approaches to upgrade would work better, Soren, but it looks to me like the central challenge is how to distinguish between two different sources of content -i.e. Author and User- correct? If so, this puts me to wonder if maybe that "Username for signing edits" parameter that sits right under Title & Subtitle params in the ControlPanel might be a key to solving the problem.
This leads straight into your Q: "Would takeaways, snippets, and notes on completed exercises cover it for you, or were you hoping to be able to add other tiddlers of your own?" Again: it is still early in the game for me to answer this with confidence, but i feel at this point like i need to be adding some tiddlers -"intertwingled" with Author's content, naturally- for reasons i hope you can understand. To explain about this, two cases i'm presently dealing come to mind: 1. There is the issue of "Naming Conventions" : an essential feature of the problem-space that is wiki, which you treat very well in the so-named tiddler. I moreover appreciated the link provided to your Zettelkasten <https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com/#OurNamingConventions>, which i would call a good example of Best Practice... And yet my own particular example is going to differ somewhat, for reasons i would like to document in context of this book, which has to work as a standalone entity, even in offline mode. This leads me into the next case. 2. Mobile Application: As mentioned earlier in this thread, i want this book working on my tablet in uncompromised (i.e. fully interactive) form, so i can take it to bed or to the beach or anyplace i want even w/o internet connection. In my case, the solution is Quine2 app on iPad -a niche case perhaps, which you may or may not choose to address in future revision- while Stan has a somewhat different mobile scenario calling for a different solution... And in any case, we must all build our own particular workflows around some combination of purposes and tools and constraints that maybe nobody else in the world will share. I will sum up by saying @Soren : what you've created in GTW is not just another book, but rather a platform for TW learners to make their way up the learning curve by building their own "Scaffolding" (a term of art in current learning theory, as i expect you probably know) as they go, so... Our challenge here is to find a way that we can integrate whatever improvements you make to the platform, without compromising the scaffolding we users have built on previous versions of it. I hope this makes sense, and is something that can be easily-enough developed w/ the existing tech, because that will make of GTW a real breakthrough work -not only here in the TW community, but moreover in the wider world of educational tech, where such tools are sorely needed. /walt On Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 12:01:25 AM UTC Soren Bjornstad wrote: > On Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 12:39:34 PM UTC-6 ludwa6 wrote: > >> Speaking of which, @Soren, i have to ask: When the inevitable revision(s) >> to this book come out, how do we upgrade without losing our edits? You >> mentioned something about this in another thread >> <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/sDNCk1tDjlM/m/mV4BH1lCAgAJ>, >> but i'm still not clear from a user perspective how this is supposed to >> work. Would appreciate if you could explain. >> > > This isn't something I had gotten to figuring out before I distributed > this version, so it is still up in the air. My thinking is that I would add > a button somewhere in the settings that would export all content that > should be saved (would takeaways, snippets, and notes on completed > exercises cover it for you, or were you hoping to be able to add other > tiddlers of your own?) and then import it into your new wiki. > > Another (probably harder) possibility would be to hack something on top of > the TiddlyWiki upgrade mechanism > <https://tiddlywiki.com/#UpgradeMechanism>. > > -- 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/707b8d98-6cd4-420d-bffc-4693fe644d22n%40googlegroups.com.
