Could you share that manual? Im very interested in using it! On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 7:34:51 AM UTC-6, Abraham Samma wrote: > > Usability for newbies is a challenge for TW5 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. >>>> >>>
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