Sold, now let's see if it breaks on the way home.

[Aaron]

Well giving you system a go. Been looking around for a decent system
even asked on social media. What a mixed response. The pen and paper
camp which is largely where I was, the Google calender camp which i
will probably end up using for appointment reminders, the MS Onenote/
Outlook camp but frankly I don't have that sort of money and I've
already tried Outlook. Then there was Lotus. mmm.

Anyway I have been active on wikis in the past and decided to revisit
tiddlywiki which I had vaguely heard others rave about. I was almost
about to give it a go when YOU came up when i searched for tiddlywiki
and organise.

Well I was sold. Of course the central core is this Brainstorm thing
which I have started the initial steps with. My god it is not low
overhead initially but yes I can see it being easy once I get used to
the shortcuts and system. Who knew a glorified list sorter could be
so useful. Pity it costs money but at least i have time to see if
this system will work for me first.

The other software well Wordpress hmm local install bit of a PITA but
probably better then my nearest alternative of text files or
tiddlywiki.

Bugger the EMACS thing. I'll just use Writer until I comprehend why
EMACS is worth it.

For the wiki well I'm sure tiddly will be fine. Unless I use another
wiki. They are ultimately not that different. I just see tiddly as
more bloggy and self contained.

My first sort is very heavy on 'project' and really only two were time
sensitive and even then quite low in urgency. It did crash once TG
for its autosave. I hope that is uncommon.

Your site almost needs a glossary of terms.

[Joseph Buchignani]

Hey Aaron,

Thanks for your very useful feedback. It is tremendously helpful to know the stages that led up to your discovery, and your initial reactions. I am greatly encouraged that you're interested. 

I feel your pain on the inadequacy of other systems. 

Cyborganize right now is not optimized for new users. It's basically an expression of the ultimate system. I plan to build a "beginner's" and "intermediate" version for people to gradually adopt it. You, sir, are brave to climb the terrifying "expert" mountain undaunted. 

Yeah, BrainStormWFO is an insanely useful cognitive amplifier. I only use it a few times per week, but when I do... no substitute.

You can use a free Wordpress account at wordpress.com, or even some other journaling PIM if you like. But yeah, local installs aren't too difficult with all-in-one packages, and it's well worth it. 

"Bugger the EMACS thing.  I'll just use Writer until I comprehend why EMACS is worth it."

Are you referring to LibreOffice Writer? If so, that will not work. You need a text editor, not a word processor. Word processors will choke on the volume of text we'll be handling. Textpad is an Org-Mode alternative Alex uses.

"For the wiki well I'm sure tiddly will be fine.  Unless I use another

wiki.  They are ultimately not that different.  I just see tiddly as

more bloggy and self contained."

Yes, correct.

"My first sort is very heavy on 'project' and really only two were time

sensitive and even then quite low in urgency.  It did crash once TG

for its autosave.  I hope that is uncommon."

BrainStormWFO crashed? I get that in Wine but not Windows. 

Some things that can trigger crashes for me in Wine:

Autosaves (I disable it)

entries that contain just a "*" that become namesaked

some recursive or illegal or complex mark/sorting operations. use copy paste instead. 

"Your site almost needs a glossary of terms."

Yes... I think it does. 

[Joseph Buchignani]

By the way, this "My god it is not low overhead initially but yes I can see it being easy once I get used to the shortcuts and system.  Who knew a glorified list sorter could be 
so useful," made me laugh.

Official initial Cyborganize reaction: "My God..."

[Alexander Deliyannis - SYMPRAXIS Team (eu)]

As a longtime user of BrainstormWFO, I can confirm its main crashing bug: autosaving while editing a namesake. You should not have any problem with autosaved turned off (or pressing Ctrl+N to disable namesaking in the specific entry), though I myself find autosave very useful. An alternative is to do a save just before you start editing on a namesake; Brainstorm will then restart counting the minutes until autosave.

By the way, my experience is that BrainstormWFO is very low on resource use.

[Joseph Buchignani]

very interesting, nice job isolating that error

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Alexander Deliyannis - SYMPRAXIS Team (eu) <a...@sympraxis.eu> wrote:

As a longtime user of BrainstormWFO, I can confirm its main crashing bug: autosaving while editing a namesake. You should not have any problem with autosaved turned off (or pressing Ctrl+N to disable namesaking in the specific entry), though I myself find autosave very useful. An alternative is to do a save just before you start editing on a namesake; Brainstorm will then restart counting the minutes until autosave.

By the way, my experience is that BrainstormWFO is very low on resource use.

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[Aaron]

Thanks for info on this crash issue. With luck the Brainstorm people
will fix it. Perhaps we should nudge them.

I am not sure which part is the namesake.

Aaron

On Nov 7, 4:19 am, "Alexander Deliyannis - SYMPRAXIS Team (eu)"

> By the way, my experience is that BrainstormWFO is *very low* on resource
> use.