TiddlyWiki being my preferred choice for writing, I started thinking: "how would I go about creating a product review website, one which showcases not just the products, but also showcases TiddlyWiki and transclusion to organize the content?"
Why do I prefer TiddlyWiki?
I am no fan of "big design up front" (see related article on Wikipedia). How can I design both a plan of content (what will I write about for each reviewed product?) and, more importantly, a plan of organization/presentation of that content before starting the actual work? To me, I only discover my plan (content and organization/presentation) as I dive into requirements elicitation via the writing process.
Not knowing everything (or at least all of the critical things) I need at the start of a task becomes an impediment to getting started at all. So I am easily drawn to a "rapid application development" (see related article on Wikipedia) approach with just about any task.
That's where TiddlyWiki comes in. TiddlyWiki facilitates rapid:
- componentization of information into tidy chunks
- aggregation (via transclusion) of those tidy information chunks
- adjustments as needs/requirements evolve and/or get discovered
Some will describe TiddlyWiki as software (wiki software, or note-taking software, or a GTD solution, or PIM), but I much prefer describe it as a platform for evolutionary and non-linear creation and organization of content.
Although I am just a humble "white belt" (possibly "yellow belt") user of TiddlyWiki, I am working my way up to another belt with some pretty fancy footwork transclusion-wise. I intend to present "how to" TiddlyWiki transclusion magic, via a product review TiddlyWiki instance, in future posts
In the meantime and for your immediate consumption, I present to you the very early beginning of CJ's Product Reviews built with TiddlyWiki.
Cheers !
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