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3. It would be interesting to know the personality types (whether using Myers-Briggs or OCEAN) that gravitate toward certain notetaking tools. This person seems like he could be an OCD type, feeling the need to have all information organized thoroughly.
Walt, the thing that bugs me most about the “immutable title/ID” idea is that unless your notes are also going to be immutable, the content of a note can still change so much as to make the reference not effective anymore. So I don't see much point in bothering, as long as you can avoid having links break. Presumably the thing you were looking for won't move so far away from the updated note that you'll be unable to find it, anyway (probably not more than one link away).
It is a good point on external links breaking, though. It would be cool if you could set up redirects within TW, so that you could at least have an incoming link to an old title go somewhere somewhat relevant. I guess you could just leave the old title with a link to the new one, but without an obvious way to distinguish redirect tiddlers from other tiddlers, they would probably get in your way and make you think they were the “real” tiddlers all the time.
@Soren
Interestingly your description of Random Thoughts has made me realize that there are a couple of ways in which I already do something kind of similar.
First is just capturing fleeting notes while reading, which I later link to evergreen notes (see here for my rough workflow). While notes are in the fleeting note stage of their life cycle they are pretty similar to RT. In fact my the only heuristic I use for deciding what to capture is just "whatever strikes me as interesting". Some of these notes will not relate to any larger ideas, and I will keep them just as quotes or something, very much like RT, but the rest will evolve and move elsewhere.
The other thing I do is use Evernote as a kind of GTD inbox. This basically is also just a way to capture fleeting thoughts, but also tasks, links etc. I use Evernote for quick capture of ideas, then later act on them, or copy them to a more permanent home, archiving the original note.
I've only just realised that this does automatically give me a kind of random-thoughts-list, though it's kind of a mess since my random thoughts are split between Evernote and TiddlyWiki, and the ones in TiddlyWiki are often not permanent.
> So IMO the best option is two complementary systems (or parts of one system) where you can move things from the quick-write one to the flexible-thinking one when they become important.
Yes this is very well-put. I feel like what I have (described above) could be converted into such a system, but it's not quite coming together in my mind just yet.
I definitely want to move away from Evernote though. Ideally I would like to use TiddlyWiki for both sub-systems, but as you point out the most important thing is the ability to capture stuff with zero friction, and IMO this is one of the major weaknesses of TiddlyWiki. I'm tempted by your approach of using a text file. Do you have a good way to add stuff to it on mobile?
Ideally I would like to use TiddlyWiki for both sub-systems, but as you point out the most important thing is the ability to capture stuff with zero friction, and IMO this is one of the major weaknesses of TiddlyWiki. I'm tempted by your approach of using a text file. Do you have a good way to add stuff to it on mobile?
TT, I like your phrasing of the “category error” involved in applying one notes system to everything. There are likely very few people who have needed to work with notes of such a wide variety of types that they can speak confidently on all of them. We've found some general patterns, but they don't all work well for every purpose.
Yes, Dictate directly into tiddlywiki.com from my android works after hitting the mic icon on the keyboards.
For fleeting notes, I'm thinking of more often making use of my Chromebook's dictation accessibility feature so that I can dictate my notes in Keep when it makes sense to have individual notes, or maybe just add notes in a Google Doc so that I don't have to futz around with creating a new "whatever" for each note.
Still: i find it hard to forbear from changing names to reflect changes in my thinking and/or popular usage. A constant struggle!
Have you tried post it notes in software on the desktop? even google keep starts you down a path which eventually overwhelms you.. You quickly discover why they (post it notes) are the wrong tool in many cases, and its not because they are hand written or on paper.
If I were seeking the ultimate truth I would not use them. But it is all about how we each operate and think. If you can use them effectively do it. But me thinks they a very flawed.
And as much as you may "choose my tiddler names well enough when needed so they need not change in future", renaming a tiddler is not always a matter of realizing that you failed to have foresight the first time around. (My reason for invoking the Bombay to Mumbai change --