Tidying UP a Paper System

[AlexHough]

@TiddlyTitch

@AlexHough

I want to tiddle from context and get in flow

That is a reflexive/responsive order, meaning that knowledge of doings re-enters doings as part of the done (as in Gendlin).
Also, you seem pretty Csikszentmihalyi’d

Best, TT

I’m tiddling out from an idea [[My Paper System]].
This system is quite messy and consists of two diaries, some exercise books, pens and pencil crayons. One is from last year and I started using the pages that I didn’t use. There are a lot of blank pages and its nice paper.

I like the feel of the paper and the feel of pen on the paper. In fact multiple nano-rewards came my way before I really stated to get going.

I set off a stopwatch on my phone. The idea was sparked by realising that I am spending a lot of time on TikTok while in bed. I thought I would spend the time on My Paper System (MPS) instead.

MPS includes my laptop. It’s pleasing that its the same size as my paper diaries. I decided to listen to some music and remembered that when I first got a laptop I listened to The Stochastic Hit Parade a lot. I was researching Jackson Pollock. I was a student studying visual art and The Stochastic Hit Parade came up in a search. It was the early days of Wifi and streaming. The whole set-up made me feel I was living in a modern time.

Bethany Ryker is still going on WFMU. I noticed she’s made a program on Paul Klee [1]

Working on the kitchen table on a Sunday morning with my TiddlyWiki (running on Node.js) on my laptop playing Bethany with a nice little messy arrangement of diaries, a pen roll and other stuff put me the zone.

Part of my MessScape on the table is Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin. I like to see The Mess as something similar to the material left by the sea at a high tide. My diary indicated to me that today is a full moon. Full Moon on a Sunday! What a great time!

MPS includes a CTW5 - a TiddlyWiki running on Node in the Comet Browser. The idea is to use this as an index card system that can index all The Messes I temporarily create.

I’m conciously creating a system that has enough depth on interest to keep me off TikTok. I thought I’d build my own Attention / Reward System around my own stuff.

I liked the expression Joe Armstrong said about Jeremy - that he was a human garbage collector. I’m trying to use TW to collect my garbage from the Tide Line I’ve created by My Mess.

Before I stopped listening to Andrew Huberman I pickup up the expression “dopamine stacking”. He used to describe pathological addictive behaviour and I’ve borrowed it and re-purposed it. He also talks about ADHD minds wanting to form Pile Files - pile of stuff, mess. What if this mess is part of an extended mind? What if loosing things and then finding them has benefits to the creative process?

Alex

[1] A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker from 8/14/2022 - WFMU AccuPlayer

[TiddlyTitch]

@AlexHough

This system is quite messy and consists of two diaries, some exercise books, pens and pencil crayons. One is from last year and I started using the pages that I didn’t use. There are a lot of blank pages and its nice paper.

@AlexHough

I like the feel of the paper and the feel of pen on the paper.

@AlexHough

TikTok while in bed. I thought I would spend the time on My Paper System (MPS) instead.

@AlexHough

when I first got a laptop I listened to The Stochastic Hit Parade a lot.

@AlexHough

Part of my MessScape on the table is Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin. I like to see The Mess as something similar to the material left by the sea at a high tide.

@AlexHough

I liked the expression Joe Armstrong said about Jeremy - that he was a human garbage collector. I’m trying to use TW to collect my garbage from the Tide Line I’ve created by My Mess.

@AlexHough

What if this mess is part of an extended mind? What if loosing things and then finding them has benefits to the creative process?

Sorry for my tardy reply.

First off, I hope you remember your excellent Sheep Project …

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It stood out to me your enthusiasm for Temple Grandin.

The woman is a genius.
(I’ll put some info at the end of the post for those interested.)

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In regards to Tiddlywiki I wonder if you keep a diary in her?

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I do like your messy way. Seems accurate to the ongoing.

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Temple Grandin Website

Documentary (23 minutes) …

First Person: Stairway to Heaven (S01E01)

[AlexHough]

Hi TiddlyTitch, thanks for reminding me of SheepyWiki!
I am well and truly touched!

By chance I’ve drifted into the same TiddlyWorkingMemoryZone. I was thinking that Jack could have a voice that speaks directly to the user in a private language of thought. Just like got the sheep to imagine or dream something I did the same for Jack

Below is a remix of the Powered by TiddlyWiki SVG (rendered as JPEG)

Sheepy Wiki
I can’t remember where I put it. The thing that strikes me is the quality of the icon. Elsewhere there is a conversation about updating Jack. I know that this suggestion might be controversial but finding a professionally designed cat icon

Here’s an image I created in Illustrator. The cat is looking at the text. The blue bar has been edited so that it looks like the wall the original Motovun Jack photo Jeremy took – presumably in Motovun, Croatia

In the next image I have added a ball of wool. The idea being that the cat is eyeing up the ball of wool in order to play with it. The owner of the wool seems about to start knitting. The knitting might become unravelled if left un-attended on the wall.

I’ve added a strapline: “keep track of your ideas as they emerge”

The traditional wiki is associated with the metaphor of gardening. This concerns the shared responsibility of looking after a co-create hypertext which the word wiki has become associated.

TiddlyWiki is a small wiki. And wiki originally means fast. Like a cat TiddlyWiki is agile. If the TiddlyWiki Community could be said to have a collective mind then playful curiosity would be be core attributes.

The sheep from Sheepy Wiki knows nothing about the wool. Sheep are different animals all together! Maybe there are a few around Motovan? Maybe its more of a goat area?

The sheep character in SheepyWiki was conceived as a combination of Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal and the Philip K Dick book “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”. What do cloned sheep dream of?

I also imaged the sheep to be in a particular location in the UK, Teggs Nose near Macclesfield. This is a site where local myths seem to suggest that the sheep up there are particularly fond of mushrooms. Youths have been known to find mushrooms in the same field as the sheep up there an have been known to somehow read the minds of the sheep up there after eating the same mushrooms as the sheep.

Here’s one with a cat and a sheep…

Here’s one that combines all of the above.

Bottom Line: TiddlyWiki is free, fast fun!

Alex (original creator of SheepyWiki)

[TiddlyTitch]

@AlexHough

Love it!
TT

p.s. “knitting” needs two t’s.

[EricShulman]

I applaud your efforts to try to develop new banner images for TiddlyWiki.
I offer the following notes with only the best of intentions.

• “herding cats” is an expression that refers to “a difficult or impossible task” (OED) or “attempting to control something that is hard to control” (Herding Cats - Wikipedia). Is this idea something we want to associate with TiddlyWiki?
• Mentioning “21 years” and the reference to “2025” unnecessarily binds the image to this year. Would these bits of text need to be updated each year?
• While it is important to credit the original image creator (“bis kim”), including that credit directly in the image is visually distracting. Is this a requirement for their use, or can we put the credits in a different tiddler; perhaps https://tiddlywiki.com/#Acknowledgements?

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[AlexHough]

• Herding cats. Armed with a TiddlyWiki you can herd cats! You get a superpower!

• 21 years: I was thinking about 21 being an age when you become a propper grown up. TiddlyWiki as a propper grown up piece of software for grown ups.

• Crediting the creator: I’d be happy to pay Bis Kim for their work and consider it a contribution to the project.

I just created these images thanks to TiddlyTitch remembering my SheepyWiki when I got sidetracked. I am prone to getting sidetracked when I come into the TiddlyWiki World.

@EricShulman I saw your tip on how the create a new Tiddler from a search and an idea came to me. What if the search term contained place holder text? And what if “Jack’s voice” was speaking to me?

I then saw the response from @TiddlyTitch which also referenced Temple Gradin. I’ve been working with a team of people on a world building project. What if Jack spoke in a distinctive voice? The idea that he did this could be conveyed by changing the artwork a little by moving the text to the right of Jack. In western culture there is a tendency to read text from left to right even if the text is a mixture of image and word. Below are the two images I started with.

Top: original image. Bottom: edited image with text to the right of Jack

Alex

[AlexHough]

Dear @TiddlyTitch
Thank you for pointing out this typo

*Updated graphic: “knitting” not “kniting” *

[TW_Tones]

If anything can be used to herd cats it’s tiddlywiki

[Justin_H]

what if you place the cat image after tiddlywiki? (assuming a concern is for where it should be placed due to reading, its common to have images to the right of text where writing is left to right, no?)

[AlexHough]

I think that looking at the text implies that the text is being thought or spoken. It could be made more explicit with a thought or speach bubble.

For me the generally accepted understanding is reading image on left and text to right in western cultures. I recall a marketing case study at business school when a western agency had done branding for an Asian market where writing goes right to left.

In reality i don’t know! In my experiments putting the text to the head side of cat makes sense.

As a graphic on the bottom right of the screen a cat looking left would probably work better to guide the eye upwards

Might have a play later

Alex