"The fundamentally open, quinoidal, structure of TW, fundamentally allows ANY system you pine after." - yes I think I agree
"Though it is radically agnostic about the importance of mother's linkages." - perhaps tiddlywiki is but is the universe?
"TBH I think it is gonna be easier to show that through OUTPUT wiki, rather than "in-process" approximations." - what? why?
... What I mean is that, we need a SHOWCASE of APPLICATION ORIENTED wiki to get TW much more widely used.
What I mean is stuff like ...The ANTHROPOLOGIST'S WikiThe POET'S WikiThe SCREENWRITER'S Wikietc x 12
... I do think a primary use of tiddlywiki is for private bespoke "free wikis" and unpublished tiddlywiki's which evolve to a users needs, thus perhaps they never mature to a finished product. That is there may be many more times the number of "free" wikis than those suitable to be published.
I pretty much always see browser back and forward buttons as evil.
I'm also no fan of the storyriver in TiddlyWiki.
..For whatever reason, staying within the boundaries of one "display all" tiddler works best for me:
- either display content in that tiddler based on selections in a sidebar menu (I'm on the fence about that approach)
- Like I've done with my Favourite Stuff and Projects TiddlyWiki
- or have everything displaying (or available from) that tiddler, making use of details widgets (or other widgets) to hide/show content, and making use of modals for displaying extra content
- Like I've done with my online resume TiddlyWiki
- I figure my preferences, always a work in progress, would be far from universally appealing. Brains are so wonderfully diverse, I'm not quite sure what could be universally appealing.
A stereotypical blog with entries ordered and always in the same order, that I like. Every blog entry stays in the same place respective to other entries. Things haven't moved on me. So there is cognitive stability. Things are where I expect them to be. Story river can get cognitively unstable pretty quickly, easy to get lost.Sure, the story river is very useful to those who know the story river (are used to it), but a bit more challenging for those who are used to a stable-looking stereotypical blog, but not so much used to the dynamism of a story river. Easy to get lost after a while.
... Story River as implemented by TW (not the only implementation around, NB) is a foreign concept to most inveterate web users -which does bring some interesting possibilities, don't get me wrong, but still: anything that so stretches the visual language of story-telling on the web has got a serious usability obstacle to overcome. /w
... Here is an unfinished blog site design of mine https://anthonymuscio.github.io/TWBlog.html, keep in mind that the infinite scroll similar to the story is a common design approach for blogs or news pages.
"but Shirley". That tickles this old fart something silly.
I agree TW "Editions" are NOT "Applications" but TiddlyWiki can be an application, website, smart document, personal software and anything else that can be built on top of these ...
Perhaps we can discuss how a tiddlywiki may comply with the concept of "Application", I would assume users need not know about tiddlywiki, but it behaves like an app, also like a website, or like a document.