Hello all. Glad to see that more people is getting interested by NoteSelf. I'm sorry to read people is having some trouble. To be honest, the new Cloudant policies have hit the NS community hard. However, I have plans to mitigate this problem (see below).
I want to make some clarifications about NoteSelf. It is not just a plugin, neither just a database for your tiddlers, it is an entire product and it is not fair to call it "just a thing to use a remote database". It has many features that are not only saving tiddlers automatically, and if you try to port all of those to "just a database" you will lost many of them. For example: - Revision history. You can see the different old revisions of your tiddlers, and restore them if you want on a more or less nice interface. - Offline support. You can use NS while you are offline, no network connection required, and changes will be synchronized automatically when you come back online. - No need of backend. Yes, syncing requires a backend, but you don't need any remote database if you just want to use NS. You can even use the normal TW workflow (downloading files) and use NS as an intermediary cache-step for automatic saving. - An hybrid android app. It may not be spectacular, but works fine and it is better than using any browser. - A system that allows you to install plugins without saving a new HTML file I am happy to see that other people is taking inspiration from NS to build their own solutions, that's fantastic, but have in mind that NS is more than just a database. Also I want to remind you that what makes an open source project strong is it's community. If each user tries to create their own solution, then we will end with dozen half-baked solutions. If you think that NS is lacking some small detail, don't hesitate to file a pull request to add that feature you are missing. *For all those users using or interested on NoteSelf:* I am working on a project to bring easy login flow to NoteSelf. It will use a passwordless approach, so you will not need to remember a password neither registration. You will input your email and hit login, then we will generate a random pin with a small lifetime (say 30 minutes), then you input that pin on NoteSelf and we will provide you a long-term authentication token that will be automatically managed by NoteSelf. At first the service should be considered beta, will be free and only one database per user will be provided. I would like to know your opinions on this approach, if you like it or not and if you will use it. There will be a section for novice users, for being able to use this easy-automatic workflow, and I'll keep a section for advanced users that want their own couch servers. Regards -- 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/291ba966-1749-419f-879e-9b28d2b1dd1a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
