Hi Lukas, many thanks for the detailed feedback - it is very useful. I am reviewing the documentation, considering your points, and will try to make things a bit more straightforward
cheers BJ On Sunday, December 21, 2014 8:04:11 AM UTC-6, Lukas Drude wrote: > > Dear BJ, > > thank you for detailing on the process. I now managed to create my first > clip and I would like to summarize my journey in a slightly criticizing > fashion: > > 1. Go to http://tiddlywiki.com/ > 2. Download empty tiddlwiki to a local folder > 3. I typed "git init" in my local folder to keep track of all my changes > 4. Install the Firefox extension TiddlyFox from the same page > 5. Navigate to http://tiddlyclip.tiddlyspot.com/ > 6. Click on "New to Tiddlyclip? - click here" > 7. Find the text "Try It Now" and click on it to find the Firefox extension > 8. Download and install the Firefox extension from > https://github.com/buggyj/tiddlyclip/raw/0.0.5-alpha/tiddlyclip.xpi > 9. Click on "Getting Started" > 10. Move the link "$:/plugins/bj/tiddlyclip" via drag and drop to the > green bar appearing in my local tiddlywiki installation > 11. Click on Import: TiddlyFox will automatically save this changes, this > changes can be observed by comparing empty.html before and after the last > step with git. Intrestingly enough the tiddlywiki title changes from > "TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook" to "My TiddlyWiki — a > non-linear personal web notebook". > 12. Reload the browser window. This will show a small black paperclip icon > next to the grey tiddlywiki icons. > 13. "Getting Started" doesn't help you further. Thus, navigate back to > "Try It Now". > 14. It now tells you to right click on "this" tiddlywiki (which is not my > local installation). This confused me because I want to clip things to my > local installation. I ignored this instruction and right clicked on my > local installtion. > 15. Now it tells you to click on "dock here". I ignored this and clicked > on "Tiddlyclip Setup" and "dock to this tiddlywiki". It worked when the > submenu now shows the name of your local installation with a small star in > front of it. > 16. Open a new webpage in the same browser window (it can be a different > tab but not a different Firefox window). > 17. Mark a text and instead of clicking on "tiddlyclip as" click on > "Tiddlyclip using Default" and click on "Snip". > 18. The git history will now indicate success. > 19. Reload your local tiddlywiki and find your new tiddler by clicking on > "Recent". > > As you see, I spent most of the time navigating through > http://tiddlyclip.tiddlyspot.com/ to find all the necessary details. I > propose to simplify the process with the following two suggestions: > 1. Let's reduce the installation and creation of the first tiddler to a > single tiddler on your webpage. > 2. Let's change the introduction to match the name changes in the Firefox > extension. > > What is your opinion? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
