I am a PhD student in Electrical engineering and I have been using Tiddly wiki for about 2 years now. Inline are my comments from my experience. I hope that it helps.
On Thursday, September 18, 2014 9:37:28 PM UTC-7, Tomás Iglesias wrote: > > Hi everyone, just discovered TiddlyWiki a few days ago and I'm already > trying to use it as my main information center. The problem is that I've > never had a personal wiki before, so I'm geting used to this new system, > and I'm not sure of how to use it for my thesis. Should I use it just as a > notebook for thoughts and ideas? should I write most of the thesis in a TW > and then generate my latex document? use different TW for both ideas and > have links between them? or both ideas in one big TW? > It depends on what 'gap' do you want to fill up with TW in your own workflow. My approach is to use a single TW for note-keeping, brainstorming etc. I always exclusively use latex for writing the documents. TW is driven by the idea of several micro-contents and it work really well as non-linear notebook. This works perfectly for research: you got some idea about a new experiment or a new section/figure in your thesis - you quickly jot it down in a new tiddler and add a relevant tag(s). Later, when you are back to your work you can search TW based on tags or search directly for keywords - then go through the idea, refine it, do some more research, add more information to TW (if needed create new tiddlers) etc etc.. > > I have seen http://tesis.tiddlyspot.com/ and > http://tw5.scholars.tiddlyspot.com/ from Alberto Molina, and both are > awesome, but are too focused in humanities from my point of view and I'm > not sure that they will do a better job than Zotero and my latex file > (maybe I'm wrong). If I find the time and knowledge, TW for Scholars would > be my starting point to mod it a little bit for a more "writing in > progress" approach. > > So, for a newbie, where should I start to understand the way to store > information in TW for my thesis (or just enter lots of bits of information > and then figure out how to use it?). > In general, TW is flexible and super searchable. Tags are very helpful. In my workflow, I have also changed my home to look something like following images, where I can automatically filter all the tiddler depending on tags. Each tab in the image is one of my research topic/sub-topic and it shows all the tiddler based on one tag (or combination of tags). This way I can very easily keep all the information categorized by basically doing nothing (well just tagging appropriately). Home screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1659299/public_share/tiddler.jpg My research also involves experimenting with different ideas. For that I have created my own list based to-do task. It just plain un-ordered list but uses some CSS to change bullet settings etc. It helps me to keep track to status of the job. This screenshot may be more clearer to understand: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1659299/public_share/todo-task.jpg You can also see this, but it did not suite my work flow: http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TaskManagementExample.html > > thanks in advance > -- 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/d/optout.
