Hi all
I wrote the following comments for another thread, but I don't want to
derail that thread and am starting a new one.
1. OVERCOMING PREJUDICE AGAINST ROAM
I don't know why there are so many negative comments towards Roam in this
Google Group. They, and their users, are constantly improving Roam, and it
can do way more than even 6 months ago. They are not resting on backlinks
as their only feature (not that they were doing that even a year ago, when
they had filters, graphs, two columns, etc). So the comments just feel like
they are generated out of envy of their success.
Also, Roam doesn't seem to be overhyping itself. The Roam USERS are the
ones posting accolades on Twitter, and the Roam account (or Connor's
account) retweets them. Which is no different from what @TiddlyWiki does.
And other influencers are creating courses to cash in on people wanting to
learn it. And YouTubers are hoping for hits on their pages by creating
videos about Roam. Everything just snowballed for Roam, like it did for
Notion in 2019. And like it could for TiddlyWiki.
I think complaints about Roam are a waste of time. The question is, what
can we do, positively, to learn from what they did, so that TiddlyWiki gets
the attention and recognition it deserves? Knowing full well that we have a
great open source product, how can we get and retain users?
2. LESSONS FOR TIDDLYWIKI
I have a feeling that most of the people who are on this forum, myself
included, are not the people best suited to actually promote TW, and that
we need win over some extroverted influencer types, to come up with better
onboarding materials, and then promote the heck out of TW. Just remember
how much attention we got when Anne-Laure LeCunff wrote a couple blog posts
on TiddlyWiki last Spring, and I merely tagged Roam Research's @ username a
few times on my tweets when I debuted Stroll? Imagine what we could do with
a few well-produced video tutorials and highlighting of TW's capabilities,
and testimonials from influencers. By people who know how to express it in
non-technical, non-absract terms.
Someone should convince Nat Eliason or someone like him to write and
promote a paid web course for TiddlyWiki, or ask people to create more
video tutorials for TW on Youtube. Top candidates: Video walkthroughs for
Timimi and each of the other options for saving. / Ten great plugins for
TiddlyWiki for notetaking / ten for productivity / ten for images / ten for
searching / ten for adjusting the UI, etc
Rather than grumbling about Roam we should just figure out the right
strategy to make TiddlyWiki popular and get someone to do it for us. For
free. They do the work, and get paid by the hits on their Youtube videos
and blog posts, or in the case of the courses, the fee they charge for the
course. And if they make it look as if they 'discovered' TiddlyWiki even
though it has ben around for years, and even though we approached them
rather than them discovering TiddlyWiki, let them. Who cares. Let them get
their ego stroked. As long as TW gets the press it ought to.
We have had exposure at times, but a deficient onboarding experience held
us back ("wait, I have to read through documentation about numerous saving
options before I can even use this on my computer?"). If we could get the
onboarding experience right, then get key people to get us the exposure,
TiddlyWiki would have its day.
Thoughts?
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