Hi everyone. I just read Jeremy's post announcing the pre Alpha of TiddlyWiki 5 (a little late to the party).
As you consider WYSIWYG solutions, I hope you will consider getting rid of edit vs view mode, changing the model a little to "what you see is what it is." The Aloha editor is seeming to do this with jquery and html5 (I think), and seems like an elegant solution.Getting away from modes would make it a step quicker as a note-keeping device. For myself, I would gladly be rid of wikitext and would make the non- reversible upgrade in a second! I just want to write -- not code -- in TW, even if it is only wiki markup. I may be setting myself up for flammage here, but I think it worthwhile to take a look at what MS's OneNote is doing on several fronts that TW5 intends to head for: incorporating images and sound files as drag and drop, hypertext, (OCR of image text!) and most of all WYSIWYG with no modes. What they are getting wrong is that the format is not cross-platform, and is not legible to most search engines. KDE's basket is making a stab at being a OneNote knockoff, getting most of both the right and wrong parts down, but KDE acts like a virus on my system, fouling up everything so it is unusable. I was using Tomboy, which is great for ease of use, but it is a pain to get at notes cross-platform. I sync to dropbox, but I cannot read the files on a phone browser like I can TW. THey have a sync service as part of ubuntu one, but it makes you store your local copy in a preset location that is not part of my indexed search area. I keep returning to TW, but keep disliking it because of the lack of WYSIWYG and the edit mode. I would like to see the ease of use of Tomboy, the feature set of OneNote, the cross-platform compatibility, portability, and user configurability of TW2, and the html/css direction you are going with the pre-alpha. I think the roadmap in your announcement bodes well for all of this. I think embracing html5 and css is an important step in the right direction. One of the limitations of TW I run into at present is that my desktop search (Google Desktop) does not find any of my TiddlyWiki text because it skips the JS content. I have been trying, with limited success and lots of setbacks, to keep all my content (email, word proc, text files, html. pdf, databases, image headers, audio tags...) indexed in one search engine. Solutions happen, then go out of commission (altavista desktop) or "upgrade' themselves out of usefulness (x1), or don't index everything (google desktop). Getting my TW content visible as html would be great. Finally, I still find the opening of linked tiddlers confusing in the default behavior. Always opening on top would be less disorienting, and tabs would give the best of both worlds, which is how I have my TW2 set up presently. The tabs keep the story idea by opening in order, but keep more info (current tiddler + all titles to other tiddlers) on the main screen for quick access. I use notetaking apps every day, and have just arrived back at TW2 (my FiddlyWiki version of it anyway) after a sojourn through the above mentioned ones. I am really looking forward to the development of TW5 and wish I could code so I could contribute more, but that probably is not happening any time too soon.. Anyway, thanks for giving me a listen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
