TiddlyWiki Hangout #106 with Anne-Laure Le Cunff

[Jeremy Ruston]

TiddlyWiki Hangout #106 is now available to watch on YouTube, with my guest Anne-Laure Le Cunff showing the workflow for publishing her digital garden from TiddlyWiki to mentalnodes.com:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuU3MrxdKcU

Many thanks to Anne-Laure! Next week I’ll be joining Dave Gifford for a tour through his recent creations,

Best wishes

Jeremy.

p.s. Apologies for the blurriness of the video, entirely my production mistake, hopefully I’ve now figured it out for next weeks recording

[Jeremy Ruston]

I forgot to add that I spent some time correcting YouTube’s automatically generated subtitles, do let me know if any errors remain.

Best wishes

Jeremy

[Saq Imtiaz]

Thanks Jeremy and Anne-Laure. 

I am usually extremely unlikely to watch videos that aren't for entertainment, but it was very interesting to hear about someone using TW in a very different context to mine. Enjoyed hear about the links between cognition and memory and note taking, and a sneak peek into what the Roam fuss is all about :)

Regards,

Saq

[Birthe C]

Jeremy,

Thank you for doing this. I found no errors in the subtitles and it was a tremendous help.

Birthe

[Anne-Laure Le Cunff]

Thanks so much for having me, Jeremy!

@Saq: I'm so glad you found it interesting, thanks for watching! :)

[Mark Kerrigan]

Hi Jeremy

One of the more interesting things in this interview is how you comment how Mental Nodes has realized the vision you had for originally creating TiddlyWiki (16:10 in the video):

It's very close to the motivation for doing TiddlyWiki for me was that I wanted to blog, I wanted to participate in the blogosphere but obviously being a software person thought I could write software as a displacement activity. My thinking was it would be easier to write in small interconnected chunks and then my readers could decide which asides to follow and so on, and of course I've never done it years ago, having had that plan. It's really lovely for me to see. I mean lots of people have made static sites with TiddlyWiki but I think it's what you're trying to accomplish with it is much more ambitious and interesting to say very much what I hoped we would see and so, yeah, very very joyous.

Careful TiddlyWiki historians will note you mentioned this also in a previous interview with Saq Imtiaz  - History of TiddlyWiki

Jeremy: Yes, well, it’s part of a lot of work I’ve done over the years in Wiki’s. I’ve been interested in Wiki’s for seven or eight years, and worked with them professionally – all the organisations I’ve worked with for the last eight years have used Wiki’s. So there’s a range of things that are.. a range of topics that I’ve been interested in for a while with Wiki’s. The particular thing that prompted me then was that I wanted to participate in the blogosphere, which kind of technically meaning having a website that I could write on and an RSS feed that people could subscribe to, but I recognise some of my weaknesses as a writer, and one of them is that blogs, to me, well .. it encourages you to write in a kind of long passages of text, and kinda what you end up with is a stream of consciousness. And I wanted to find a way to write in the same way, to try and write every day, just have the same discipline as a blogger, but instead of creating a stream of consciousness, to kind of knit together a coherent manifesto of my beliefs. So I was hoping that by dripping in a little bit of content every day, what I’d end up with was something that would be much more useful and consumable than a stream of consciousness. But of course, <laughs> when I actually created TiddlyWiki, I never quite got around to using it in the way that I intended.

So it's nice to see it all coming full circle. ;)

Thanks

Mark Kerrigan