TiddlyWiki for Scholars
This Tiddlywiki was developed 7 years ago by Alberto Molina Pérez!
It is amazing to see at that time, such a great tool has been created using TW 5.0.15-beta
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It truly is. Also the effort Alberto made to make it keep working.
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Molina Pérez made something very good. Insightful. Innovative for that time. Bringing to the foreground scholastic applications of TW.
@Mohammad, it was great you pointed to Molina’s great use of TW.
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I sent an email to Alberto! I hope he gets the email and reply!
I would be happy to help and update the wiki to 5.2.0! or something newer!
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Hi Mohammad and all, thanks for your kinds words. I developed TW for Scholars while working on my PdD thesis. It was a lot of effort (but also fun) because I’m not a software developer or anything like that. Actually, I’m just a philosopher with very limited coding skills.
I would be happy if anyone wanted to revisit TW for Scholars, but unfortunately I am unable to contribute. I forgot how I did it back then and I have no time to learn again.
However, thanks to later improvements in the core of TW, some of the things I was trying to do would be easier now. My humble contribution is still usable because TW is a great software developed with durability in mind, but if I wanted to update it or improve it, I would certainly start again from scratch.
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Hi Alberto,
Thank you for your prompt reply! You actually did a great job which after 7 years still is of much interest!
I hope we could have you around and someone (including me;-) ) may put time and update this valuable piece of software: Tiddlywiki for Scholar.
Just to add that @Alberto_Molina’s “TW for Scholars” made a big impact on me. It is still a terrific piece of work that very neatly extends the basic TW user interface.
At the time, TW5 was functionally usable, but from todays perspective very incomplete, and the docs were even more impenetrable. An endless concern I had at that time was whether I’d ended up building something that was just too complicated and inaccessible for other people to find useful. TWfS sticks out as a very pleasing corroboration that somebody else could come to TiddlyWiki and understand enough to be productive.
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