Changing from TW classic to TW5

[iain]

I have a number of TW's in TW Classic using Moris Grays adaptation of No Brainer Notes (which dates from c2008). I am up to TW Classic 2.7.1 after which plugins start to break.

The question is in two parts - firstly is there any point changing to TW5 ?

Secondly how would I do it and retain the Notebook format that I am happy with.

I am a user of TW rather than an expert in programming so I am looking for a Plain English answer.

Cheers

Iain

[Eric Shulman]

On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 3:54:29 PM UTC-7, iain wrote:

I have a number of TW's in TW Classic using Moris Grays adaptation of No Brainer Notes (which dates from c2008). I am up to TW Classic 2.7.1 after which plugins start to break.

The question is in two parts - firstly is there any point changing to TW5 ?

Short answer: if your current TWClassic document continue to work for you, there is no compelling reason to change.... at least... not yet.

 

Secondly how would I do it and retain the Notebook format that I am happy with.

Adaptations like Morris' "No Brainer Notes" are based on TWClassic plus plugins and other customizations to templates, stylesheets, menus, etc.

In principle, everything that was done with TWClassic can also be done with "modern" TiddlyWiki.  However, the methods and syntax used in TW5 are completely different from TWClassic, so none of the plugins and customization from your current documents would be transferrable to a TW5 environment.  Instead, the same design would have to be re-created from scratch using TW5 syntax and techniques.

I am a user of TW rather than an expert in programming so I am looking for a Plain English answer.

Hopefully, my response above was sufficiently non-technical.  What might also be useful would be for you to discuss exactly which features of Morris' design are most criticial to your workflow.  Then it would be possible for someone to try to reproduce just those features within a new TW5 document.  If that can be accomplished using only native TW5 syntax and methods -- i.e., without needing to write any new plugins -- it might be possible to achieve close to your desired result without needing to write any actual program code (though it would likely require some "advanced" understanding of TW5 syntax and customization techniques)

enjoy,

-e

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[iain]

Thanks Eric

I am glad there is no compelling reason to change but I assume TW Classic might be overwhelmed by technical changes in the world of Browsers at some point.

I can do the customisations of colour ...etc but is there some form of repository for TW5 plugins that describes what each plugins does and how it can be implemented?  I am assuming that "Tiddly Tools" is for Classic rather than TW5.

Thanks Iain