Usability for newbies is a challenge for TW5 users but it is not insurmountable.
Take my project Maarfapad which gives you access to a TW5 cloud service among other things: I've had some success with getting newbies on board by providing them with a simple *interactive* manual inside their wikis that takes them through most of TW5's functionality step by step. The fact that it helped even my mother (a person who tries to stay away from computers most of the time) understand how tiddlywiki works enough to actually USE it is encouraging. I believe designing less verbose, more interactive manuals within wikis will help gain more users. Its kind of like designing video game tutorials. You want the user to pick up essentials easily and let them master it by himself using those first principles. This discussion is very interesting! Thanks to the person who started it. On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:43:00 PM UTC+3, Diego Mesa wrote: > > Hey all, > > With this thread, and the related Yearning for ONE method: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/TiddlyWiki/19LF5KynLAc > > I definitely think TiddlyWiki would benefit immensely from well thought > out "New User Experience" that "Just Works Out of the Box". I have 100% > drunk the koolaid when it comes to TW. But I had a very hard time > explaining it to someone else, when it came to "Oh no actually you have to > either save like this, or like that, or, yeah it could be one file, or yeah > you could install a plugin for that, or, etc etc etc" > > I think this community can try to develop sort of an > EverNote-likeish-clone that just come prepackaged, is easy to explain and > use. What do you guys think? > > On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:26:43 AM UTC-6, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> Ciao Jeremy >> >> The latest TiddlyDesktop is great. Its very good--likely the lowest >> hassle for TiddlyWiki that are "self contained". Its very reliable IME. >> >> BUT its not so good if you need to be able to do things that normal >> web-browsers provide like "Print Edit" and "Save to Scrapbook." >> >> The RESULTANT SCOPE of the differential ways of running TiddlyWiki is not >> so well documented. BUT, in reality, folk use TW in CONTEXTS. I think PART >> of the issue with parting with Firefox is not just TW, its also all the >> OTHER stuff FF did too. >> >> In mourning >> Josiah >> >> Jeremy Ruston wrote: >>> >>> That’s actually what TiddlyDesktop is, except that it uses the older >>> nw.js rather than Electron. >>> >> -- 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/1ab74ed2-e486-41f3-8ba8-21f4d0625282%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
