Comments: 1. Don't be too hard on yourself about choices made. All of the possibilities - documentation, new features, bug fixes, helping people who are stuck on a use case problem - all of it is worthwhile. And while you are so productive as to seem omnipresent at times, you are still one finite being and can't do it all.
2. There was a book I saw in Barnes and Nobles earlier this year, I think it may have been called The One Thing, or something similar. But the author's point was that we should focus our efforts on the one thing that will make everything else either easier or unnecessary. I think a clear roadmap for new users, and everyone, on where to find this (e.g. Plugin list mechanism) and how to use that (documentation and examples) is something that could save you and others time and energy later, because you won't have to spend as much time explaining things, you can just paste a link to the instructions. 3. I am glad Eric is doing his book series, and I have already donated because it will be really valuable. And while I am currently too busy to do much writing for you - my work responsibilities grew dramatically starting in September - I did manage to sneak in some documentation yesterday. Hopefully that was helpful, though it probably needs some cleaning up. And hopefully here and there I can help you out some more, either with documentation or at least reviewing what there is and writing up suggestions of areas where documentation is needed or needs to be clearer. And others have done some how tos that may also help you see what is needed. Anyway, my point is that you are not alone. I second the others in giving a +1 to your plan to put the brakes on new features and do some consolidating and explaining of what is already there, but I also second those who say it should fall primarily on us, the TiddlyWiki community. 4. You may think about a two level plugin list: the top part would list the plugins that are officially sanctioned and compatible with the latest release. The bottom part could be a growing list of webpages where individuals have stored there plugins and goodies they have created for TW but that may or may not continue to be compatible. 5. Don't feel too bad about TiddlyWiki looking like voodoo. It is a highly customizable tool with limitless functional possibilities that positively screams at the user, "Create something totally new with me! Combine my filter operators and features in a new way!". I doubt the documentation will ever be sufficient to explain every possible use case. I have played around with it quite a bit, and I still scratch my head at things like text references and action-this or action-that. Remember that TiddlyWiki classic was also like voodoo. The learning curve was high, which is why I created TW for the rest of us and TiddlyVault. 6. For me, a really, really long list of examples of filters and widgets would go a long way in helping us learn the unique language(s) of TiddlyWiki. Seriously, these are languages for which there is no full grammar textbook and the number of native speakers are limited. Even when I know what I want to do and get the general idea of what a widget or list filter is for, I have trouble writing [tag[tags]tagged[!is]!all[sort]] so that it works like I see it in my imagination. For TiddlyWiki classic I constantly returned to Abego Extensions because it had a long list of possible forEachFilter examples. Seeing and comparing the examples was how I learned to use it. But with TW5 there still aren't enough examples out there, so I have to fiddle and fiddle and finally get on the Google group and just ask. So a long list of representative examples would go a long way toward reducing our frustration and yours. Hope these comments are encouraging and helpful. Blessings to you and to everyone working on these issues. Dave -- 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.
