[Tb] Re: Learning curve too steep

I would agree that the learning curve for TB is steep and often
off-putting. At the moment I use it only for a blog and a static web
site, but I am hoping to branch out into other things, like managing
all my little bits of information.

Others have identified that it does take work, and that one of the
problems is that out of the box it isn't at all clear what TB is
capable of. I've gleaned some of the purposes that people use it for by
lurking on the forum and the wiki, but it seems to me that the several
pleas for a set of templates or even ghost TB files set up to do a
particular thing are going ignored.

What little I do know learned by taking apart the various blogging
templates and asking. And I'd be happy to share those with anyone. I
once tried to use it in a group meeting to capture ideas, but funnily
enough it disrupted the meeting because everyone got too interested in
what I was doing. Next time I wouldn't necessarily feed the output of
my computer to the overhead screen until the capture part was over and
we had moved on to refining.

I have not, for example, attempted to set up TB as a task or activity
manager because that's not a high priority for me. On the other hand,
if there were a TB document that offered that, I might just spend some
time seeing whether it would work for me and tinkering with it.

Maybe that's the essential difference in users. Some like to tinker,
and they like TB. Others don't, and they don't.

Jeremy
Received on Wed Feb 25 05:33:19 2004