Hello all! I’ve been lurking on here for a few months and thought I’d finally chime in as a new user of TW. I’ve come across TW a couple of times over the years and thought of it as a really cool concept but ultimately didn’t have a pressing need to deep dive. The third time around, I was actively …

G’day jollygoose. The basic unit of “storage” in TiddlyWiki is a tiddler, a thing with fields associated with it: title, text, etc. Everything you enter in TiddlyWiki goes in a tiddler, but whether something goes into a distinct tiddler or get added to an existing tiddler, you decide based on whet…

[image] jollygoose: the one thing I’m absolutely struggling with is the philosophy of “everything is a tiddler” I am not sure this is quite what you meant by your statement above but I just wanted to point out that some tiddlers are created when you perform certain actions yet you may not wis…

[image] jonnie45: …I was seeing the image twice on the story river, once where it was actually intended to be seen - in the middle of a tiddler article and once again when the container tiddler was on the storyline. After importing images, their “container tiddlers” should only appear in the …

[image] jollygoose: the one thing I’m absolutely struggling with is the philosophy of “everything is a tiddler” That quote is most certainly true when talking about the TW UI – everything else is entirely up to you. Like Charlie said… [image] Charlie_Veniot: TiddlyWiki is flexible as hel…

Thank you SO much for taking the time to respond in such detail! I appreciate you sharing your way of using this tool. This last paragraph is especially enlightening, especially the parts I put in bold: A very common pattern for me is that I start off with an entire article or a major part of one…

Thanks Eric, I have a number of pre-configured buttons to populate the story river with tiddlers according to different criteria - like show in order of date created, show random 50 , show latest and so on - the “container tiddlers” inevitably end up on the story river unless I take steps. Similar f…

I tend to use the tabs macro in one default tiddler to set up 3 or 4 key tiddlers that are instantly available to me when I open the file. Then I link to other stuff from those. I think I’m going to try this. I currently have a default tiddler that would work much better this way. Everyone here…

The non-linear part is the hardest to overcome. We all want things in a sequence, things organized. But our mind does not work that way - is a jumble of thoughts and ideas. Save these disorganized thoughts in TiddlyWiki and review/organize tomorrow with tags. The sidebar->more->all will show all th…

No problem - for what it’s worth I see Tiddlywiki as a learning and research tool. The patterns in the wiki reflect the patterns and connections in the brain. To get it “right” in one go is probably not realistic because the whole pattern of learning involves construction of conceptual structures fo…

[image] Charlie_Veniot: Your perfect fit will change over time as you make discoveries, and you’ll adapt TiddlyWiki as your requirements/knowledge evolve. I think I’ve been coming at this from the wrong perspective. The message I’m taking away from several of the responses is that continuous …

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