Please understand that I'm advertising TiddlyWiki, D3, and MonkeyGTD. I did not code them. Like any open source project, they were coded by a large collaboration of developers.

TiddlyWiki has demonstrated that JavaScript has the potential to be a strong platform for innovative platform-independent applications. Unfortunately, few JavaScript implementations are ready yet for this wide-scale use. (for some reason MSIE's JavaScript interpreter is much faster than Mozilla's)

TiddlyWiki's code has been optimized. Look at it. It's very clean. It's event-based. There aren't but a few loops, and there are hardly any recursions. This has nothing to do with the coding. Once the code has loaded, it runs fine.

The trouble has to do with the load time. A lot of that has to do with the size of TiddlyWiki. You can get JavaScript "optimizers" that remove comments and whitespace, but reports are that this doesn't make much of a difference in much JavaScript interpreters.

So I understand the frustration with the size and complexity of these GTD Tiddly Wiki's. However, personally I find GTD Tiddly Wiki solves so many problems with other computer GTD solutions that its benefits far outweigh its costs. I can deal with adjusting my delay time or clicking "continue" once or twice... That's an investment. The payoff, for me, is being able to carry the wiki with me and also store it on-line while also being able to access it from any operating system and seemlessly print entries directly to index cards.

It's easy to use and provides great cross-platform functionality. If you can't stand the small drawbacks, then that's fine. However, I think there are plenty of people who will get over those small drawbacks... And this advertisement is really for them.