Ciao Mark S. The TW community is a sweet thing. Likely fragile if anything went turbulent. But the current Google / Github thing looks pretty stable.
At ROOT TW has longevity from what it IS & has long been. . A very sophisticated JavaScript webpage. Here is mainly commentary & refinement. MO. J, x On Monday, 4 July 2016 22:57:25 UTC+2, Mark S. wrote: > > 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/fe691fc6-4f06-4f83-8319-89bdf2769ce4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
