title: Feedback on Learning Philosophy section
tags: feedback

I've generally copy/pasted replies to feedback emails, removing the identifying details like emails.

# 1
I've added an intro and an 'other resources' section to the bottom, including a link to your page.

The main purpose of the page, as I now say in the intro, is the philosophy of learning, rather than HTML per se.That is, a notes-centric approach where each time you don't know something, your first port of call is your notes.If something you don't know or can't remember isn't in your notes, you make an entry in your notes.That way, your notes grow into a comprehensive first-port-of-call knowledgebase.(This is something I had learned by the time I finished my Ph.D., and wish I had drilled in at the start of my university career.)

All too often, tutorial pages (like the one you mentioned), only talk about how to do something (like write HTML), rather than how to learn (in general), how to take notes as you learn (for whatever you are learning), and the importance of doing so (as adapting your learning workflow in this way takes time and effort, and humans are lazy and tend to skip over stuff like this, as I did when I was a student until I learned eventually the importance of good notes).

The other thing about the wiki is that it is part of the public-facing part of me doing exactly this: when I learn something that I have no issue about not sharing about, I added it usually to that wiki (though music production stuff is moving to https://daw.allsup.co/). As such, the wiki is a growing personal notebook of what I learn about how to do stuff.

As for the wiki itself, I did a quick screen recording of the editing workflow. An important feature of it is that to create a page, I simply type the intended URL of the page in, and then edit to create the page. (The editing tools are only visible to authenticated users.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yle0FLREb8

Also about the wiki, it is heavily keyboard-driven and optimised for someone who is fluent in typing. For example pressing / and typing a regex filters the links in the page, and if the match is unique, pressing enter will take you to it. Which avoids the need to use the mouse/trackpad when navigating. The Ctrl-D opens a directory on the left; Ctrl-G opens a 'goto' box which is slightly quicker than editing a url in the url bar, and usually much quicker than using the mouse, especially when creating a new page in the current directory (press Ctrl-D, type in the name of the page, Ctrl-E to select edit mode, and possibly Ctrl-D in the goto box to open in a new tab, and then enter and you're done -- creating a new page in Wordpress, by comparison, takes about a minute or so for what takes a second or so on Purple Tree).

Anyway, thanks for your feedback. Any more feedback is greatly appreciated.