The main problem I see, in terms of future-proofing, if you have followed the tiddler-semantic-unit philosophy, is that when you export your tiddlers they will be in little pieces that won't make sense to other information managers. The workaround is to export via aggregate pages as static pages -- that is, a tiddler that combines other other tiddlers can be exported as a static web page.
Speaking of future-proofing and Evernote, last week EN boosted it's premium prices 40% and will be limiting it's free customers to 2 devices (where a computer counts as a device). Google had a product called Notebook which they then, in typical Google fashion, dropped. Then revived as Google Keep. Springpad was very popular but was abandoned without notice. Before Onenote, Microsoft had another note product which they also dropped. >From all this you can see that the problem with proprietary solutions is that there is zero transparency. You don't know if the company is making money with a product, what they hope to charge in the future, or if they plan to eventually sell themselves to some other company. You certainly never get to correspond with the CEO or lead developer. There's a fair number of open-source information systems out there, but most of them are virtually orphans. The great thing about TW is right here -- the extensive and active community. Should there ever be a reason to migrate (Like HTML25 requiring personal quantum entanglers) it's likely that someone else will already be working on various export options, and will be here to help you out. Well, unless Google decides to do away with Groups, like they did RSS news, Sketchup, Notebook, and 40 other services you can view in the Google graveyard <http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/2013/03/google_reader_joins_graveyard_of_dead_google_products.html> . Good luck! Mark On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 12:05:47 AM UTC-7, Bruno Wassermann wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am a complete newbie to TiddlyWikki, the concept of small tiddlers > interlinked in different ways resonates with me and I am considering to > eventually migrate from Evernote to TW5. I am starting to understand that > this might require a substantial investment, which has prompted me to try > and understand the degree to which this time investment will continue to > pay off in the future. > > I know that there are many dimensions to this question (i.e. TW is open > source and so anyone can contribute and continue to maintain it just in > case, HTML5, JavaScript, wikitext, and so on are probably going to stick > around for a while and so on). > > However, I am trying to understand how painful it would be, if I ever > decided, after moving and creating a few years' worth of notes into TW5, to > migrate my notes to some other tool. > > I am not so much at home with frontend technologies, so please forgive my > ignorance when it comes to JavaScript and friends. > > In the following snippet: > <<list-links filter:\"[tag[tiddlywiki-example]] +[sort[title]]\">> > > a. What kind of animal is the 'list-links' element? Or, what is a tiddler > macro? > b. Is the filter syntax specific to TW? > c. By what kind of animal do these guys get evaluated? > > I have found > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core/wiki/macros/list.tid. > > What does the actual flow look like from parsing a tiddler, to identifying > that a macro should be invoked to actually invoking it? In addition, or > alternatively, what would topics/concepts do I need to study to be able to > make sense of this? > > All the best, > > -- Bruno > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1b037ff7-f85e-41cb-8c4e-95c254b1e72b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
