Thanks, but it works well for me :) Richard
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 7:28 PM TonyM <anthony.mus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard, > > Thanks for Sharing, Jeremy deserves recognition for TiddlyDesktop and it > is a great tool for TWC in addition to TW5. > > Do you have any specific Questions given your circumstances? > > Tony > > On Saturday, 18 August 2018 03:40:13 UTC+10, Richard Niolon wrote: >> >> Hi >> I apologize if this is not the place to post this, but I've been looking >> around and have not found anywhere to do this. >> >> To frame this... I teach grad students and use the classic TiddlyWiki >> (I'll update to the new version over academic break one of these days) as a >> shell to organize course materials for my students... and me if I'm being >> honest. I've posted on this before, but TiddlyWiki makes organizing >> handouts, readings, topics, assignment instructions... as well as importing >> things from the prior class and rearranging them for a new semester... very >> easy. Udo's YourSearch plugin makes the whole thing searchable, which is a >> big bonus. My students complain about all sorts of things, but I have had >> only compliments about my course website for years now. >> >> The problem was... Firefox ended support for the scripting required to >> *save* a TiddlyWiki. When I discovered this, I cursed them. I tried the >> first version of TiddlyDesktop and had some issue with it. I went to the >> portable version of the Firefox ESR release, but that's been a pain. I may >> have four TiddlyWiki shells a semester, and so editing and switching >> between them has been tricky. After a lot of work to figure out how to >> install more than one version of Firefox, sometimes links still open in the >> wrong version (or won't open because one version is already open and it >> causes a conflict) and I can't figure out how to fix it (there's *dozens* >> of calls to Firefox in the Windows registry, and even if I figure out which >> one needs changing, I have to make that change on two other machines >> running different versions of Windows). Further, every time there is an >> update to Firefox, something gets borked in my set up. Switching to some >> other solution is twice as much work for me, so I've stayed with the ESR, >> though I hate it. >> >> Then I saw and tried the newest version (13 I think) of >> TiddlyDesktop.This has made organizing and editing TiddlyWikis *SO >> SIMPLE*. >> >> I don't know how much work the TiddlyDesktop project has created, on top >> of the work for the two versions of TiddlyWiki, but I really appreciate it. >> My thanks to Jermolene R and everyone else working on this - you have >> made my job much easier :) >> >> *THANKS!* >> Rich >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/Qip2HUijyn8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/213729e4-f3e6-464d-9f6f-b3d9227a3020%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/213729e4-f3e6-464d-9f6f-b3d9227a3020%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAL7EcteD3ULDPOkWgEjU5Ww3vOit7fnOuxttS1-6OiwxfD8jyg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
