Comments on: Organize your Novel with a Wiki, part 2

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:30:07 +0000

I’m so excited about using this tool that I googled for help to change the header color and stumbled on what appears to be a cure-all site: http://www.giffmex.org/twfortherestofus.html

The above appears to be a tiddlywiki which explains the coding in basic tiddlywikis.

Thanks for this organizational idea, it’s fantastic!

By: LJCohen

LJCohen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:20:06 +0000

jenifer–I don’t know if there’s a way to automate the reorder process. I just do it manually, opening the ones I want in the order I want them as if I were shuffling through index cards.

By: jenifer

jenifer — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:14:28 +0000

Sorry, I should have explained that further – I’m thinking of whether it’s possible to re-order scenes easily. I’m wondering what method you use to do that.

By: jenifer

jenifer — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:09:48 +0000

Thanks. I was able to open the file in Firefox, but I got some errors in macros or scripts or something. I learned a lot more about TWW today playing with it on my work computer, so that might help troubleshooting this weekend at home.

I was wondering about the ordering of Tiddlers. You mentioned being able to search (fabulous!) and order the tiddlers, and I wondered if there really is a way to control display order of tiddlers. It seems that if I open a tiddler, it puts it at the top. Can I drag and drop them around, like playing with the order of index cards in front of me? Maybe there’s a plugin to allow that to happen – I haven’t searched yet.

By: LJCohen

LJCohen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:09:59 +0000

Jenifer–thank you for your comments. I have FF 3.0.1 and TWW works fine for me. I just upgraded last night to FF3. Please feel free to email me and let me know what happens when you try to use the program. If there’s some troubleshooting I can do, I’ll let you know.

best,
lisa

By: brise

brise — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:41:03 +0000

jenifer, I had the same problem with Firefox. If you download the empty file and leave it on your desktop, it’ll show up with an Internet Explorer icon even though you’ve selected Firefox, right? I don’t want to open IE on my computer either. Using Firefox, select your File menu and then Open file… select the empty wiki file, and you should be able to continue playing the way you did at work.

Hope this helps. I played with it myself, but I’m glad to see it in action here. Thanks for the article, LJ.

By: jenifer

jenifer — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:46:05 +0000

I really love this idea. I saved the wiki at work today and played with it a little. It seems good, but I think it’s going to take some getting used to to figure out how to do everything I want (like customizing colors and titles).

I tried to install it at home to play with it some more, but it appears TiddlyWiki is incompatible with Firefox 3.0.1 (which I believe is still in beta). I couldn’t check it out on the TiddlyWiki website, because it appears to be set up using the TiddlyWiki format, so nothing works.

Most people should be fine using it, but just a warning to not upgrade Firefox yet if you’re using this wiki. And if anyone has upgraded Firefox and knows how to make it work, I’d love to hear.