> 1) What are your favorite features of TiddlyWiki – Classic? >
- Flexibility - adaptable to uses from Wiki to database to...? - Extraordinarily customizable and extensible - Can create elegant and specialized applications with decent knowledge of Javascript - accessible to a fairly modest level of programming knowledge - Easy, straightforward markup - Many available plugins - Until recently :-( the ability to share a single file and anticipate correct behavior on any browser with no special knowledge, effort or add-ins on the part of the recipient 2.) What plug-ins (if any) do you consider essential for TiddlyWiki – > Classic? > - ForEachTiddler - Checkbox - EditField - ShortcutKeys - InlineJavascript - TiddlersBar - HideWhen - DisableWikiLinks 2.5.) What plug-ins (if any) would you rather not be without? > > - NestedSliders - TaggedTemplateTweak - AttachFile - Footnotes - Annotations - many others used in specific situations (thank you thank you thank you Eric and others!) 3.) Can you give a brief example of how you use TiddlyWiki – Classic? > - Manage teaching materials for college classes - Web sites and study guides for college classes - Collection of code snippets, software tips, how-to's, etc. - Web page providing information about my research lab to the public and organizing project information, research protocols, recipes, etc. for my research students - Database of bacterial strains - Database of references with automatic citation retrieval and PDF file management - Address book, gift list, recipe book and other home management tasks - Database of books & music - Collection of hiking, biking and backpacking trails with maps and photos - ...more projects in progress than I'd care to admit 4.) What software (if any) did you try before deciding on TiddlyWiki – > Classic and if possible can you give a brief summery of why you chose to > use TiddlyWiki – Classic over them? > I had tried Evernote, TWiki and various other wikis, roll-your-own macro-driven Excel database solutions, FileMaker databases, etc. I had largely settled on TreePad before encountering TiddlyWiki. Despite its horribly slow development, it allowed for many of the organizational things I wanted to do. TiddlyWiki is far superior because it can be made to look and work exactly as I want it to look and work and can look and work differently for different applications, and because it is (was) so easily shareable. > 5.) What have you been unable to do with TiddlyWiki – Classic that you > really wished you could? > > 6.) If you could change anything about TiddlyWiki – Classic what would it > be? > There are certainly not many limits to TiddlyWiki if one is determined enough to get it to do something specific. With changes in how browsers allow it to work, I'm really missing the ability to do things like get a local directory listing and automatically create links to files or create something that a less-sophisticated user can use right away. I guess the catch, however, is "if one is determined enough". In this era where people use a computer like a car - hop in and drive, without knowing anything about what's under the hood - it's hard to get anyone interested in doing some Javascript programming to get a tool that does what they want it to do. Given that, it would be nice if it were a little easier/more obvious how TW can be configured and how it can be used in different ways. Out of the box, you see what basically looks like a program for writing notes in sort of blog format, with limited screen real estate. It's not clear how you'd use it differently or change how it looks, and even to customize the look takes quite a bit of poking around with something like Firebug just to see what CSS changes to make. It would be great if the next generation TiddlyWiki made it easier to modify the layout, provided some built-in tools for a more hierarchical structure (yes, I know the concept of TiddlyWiki is inherently non-hierarchical, but there are many applications where something more structured comes in handy), made it simpler to create and use forms and store database-like data, had an easily accessible means of finding and installing major plugins (like an App Store or Mozilla's Add-Ons), had readily accessible high-quality documentation on how to accomplish common tasks, etc. I'm not sure if real collaboration can ever be made to work in a non-server application, but that would be on my wish list, too. -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
