Re: [Tb] Tinderbox, OmniOutliner, and GTD

Hi

I agree with Nick. Tinderbox is great but can be terribly
frustrating. I quit using the program when I was trying to export an
OPML. Ok, for you guys who can write applescript or use html it's
easy... but I'm a writer! I was amazed by the possibilities but to
implement simple agents I always had to go through all the
documentation. After some time I forgot how I did it and if I wanted
to change something I had to go through it again!

Now I use Omnioutliner, but I would like to be able to use Tinderbox.

roberto

On 26 de jun de 2006, at 04:14, David J Garbutt wrote:

>> An example that might clarify what some people might mean when
>> they say that Tinderbox is kind of an "island" is just the
>> issue of text editing.
> Hi,
> I agree with much of the drift of this thread, I have at times
> found TB
> frustrating. But the text editing is a problem, I think I would be
> happy
> with a text format that was at least easy to type and remember...
>
> Going back to the original point about GTD I have been using a
> different
> solution - Tiddlywiki for about a year now. It has developed very
> fast and
> really is grown now into a hypertext environment - but implemented
> in a
> single file (that includes the program) useable with any modern
> browser.
>
> Inside the notes it uses wikiwiki text formatting and renders on
> the fly to
> the screen using CSS stylesheets. (these are dynamic and
> customisable, they
> are stored in tiddlers also).
>
> There are currently two GTD implementations d3 and MPTW- GTD.
>
> Start from the main web site at www.tiddlywiki.com. Make sure you
> have a
> free evening before you visit ;-)
>
> This fills an important condition for me - I need to have a system on
> Windows as well as my home Mac.
>
> TiddlyWiki however is not an outliner - it has NO outline structure
> - it
> only has notes (called tiddlers), links, and tags. It has plugins
> and an
> amazing array of formatting - for example tables in notes, and
> tools for
> splitting tiddlers and putting them together into larger pieces.
>
> I have planned one day to make a TB export template, but I still
> haven't got
> around to that :-(
>
> Check it out.
>
> I think it is very interesting (as a topic in interface design,
> etc.) that
> you can do so much with just a tag box and customisable macros. I
> know you
> could make something similar in TB (lets do it!), but having a
> flexible
> simple system just there is worth a lot. I do not understand
> exactly why
> this should be but perhaps it is to do with marginal costs, the
> cost of
> adding that to a TB file is too big to bother with a very simple
> application, so it doesn't get started, later the amount of info to
> transfer
> is too much, so it still doesn't happen.
> And the more expert you are the lower the perceived cost of TB is, and
> therefore the more useful.
>
> Ciao
> Dave
>
>
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Received on Mon Jul 10 2006 - 18:07:09 EDT