We often focus too much on shortcomings but not on the things that TiddlyWiki does so well that we just take for them granted.
Drag and drop.
It just works, within the same wiki, from a different wiki. From a different browser!!! Copy entire tiddlers or plugins by drag and drop.
Rant:
I am working in Notion at the moment for a client project and even with the Notion desktop app installed, I cannot drag a block from one page to another. Doesn’t work in the browser either.
I have to manually cut and paste blocks and then deal with the weird formatting blocks not matching up… not having a plain text editor makes this harder than need be.
First off I do want to say “right!” Architecturally on desktop it is true.
BUT, there is the residual issue (NOT a TW issue per se) that because smart phones and some touch screens are primarily d-n-d already conflicts arise. IMO, for long-term smart-phone devs it remains an issue how to deal with it?
I’ve been forced into using agile boards at work that have a primitive markdown implementation. After years of using TiddlyWiki, it seems I should be able to rattle off a simple table or highlight text or customize styles as I type anywhere I can put asterisks around a word to make it bold.
Ditto! Tiddlywiki’s markup allows you to nest dissimilar list items, setting classes (@@), real blockquotes, and most of all, supports definition lists. I particularly enjoy that italics and bold use different markup. Unlike in markdown, where italics is (*) or (_) and bold is (**) or (__). Tiddlywiki’s tables are also much easier to type than GFM or Multimarkdown’s tables.
Yes. I Wanted wysiwig in the early days but have lost interest as I now can do much more in wikitext. Its like shorthand. There is always preview and use inline edit when needed.
I was never much of a markdown guy to begin with, but after adopting TiddlyWiki’s wikitext back during the Classic era, it’s become difficult to use most flavors of markdown without a tiny bit of derision for the “bad choices” it makes compared to TWtext — like *italics* rather than //italics//.
I realize TW’s wikitext was built on the shoulders of giants, but it makes it hard to work with less fluid, less extensible, less adaptable alternatives.
Displaying Maths.
The KaTeX plugin was the hook that got me into the TW platform.
It’s surprisingly difficult to display maths nicely on the web.
It’s a bit easier these days than it was but five (six?) years ago TW was the best solution I found for maths.
Right. D-n-D on Android smartphones does seem problematic (and to an extent on Chromebooks in tablet mode too, on mine at least). I’m no expert on this kind of thing. What I subjectively see is that the OS overrides the TW D-n-D much of the time. Essentially it stops behaving as it would on desktop.
I think it maybe needs an expert programmer’s eye to examine what is going on?
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, but still – !