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Re: Ask HN: note taking Tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com) professionally?

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One of the gems on the internet. I first used it with ie4 .... that allowed to be saved locally via ActiveX. Now I have a plugin that saves it to Google drive. Many thanks to people who developed it.

Two questions:

1) How do you use it on your mobile device? ( For Reads and Writes)

2) How is the performance on really large files -say 10k tiddlers?

Re: Ask HN: note taking Tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com) professionally?

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I tried it for a project and I was pleased with what I could do with it (links to other inner sections, web formatting, etc). However, i couldnt maintain this approach for new projects and daily notes, so i switched to Docsify and markdown a month ago. Docsify needs plugins to accomplish most built-in TiddlyWiki stuff (search, last updated subtitle, etc) and basically forces you to script your way to make a document…

Tiddlywiki makes use of a browser and in that regard it is platform independent, right?

Yes, but the way that I see it, if some JS function that TiddlyWiki relays on is deprecated (for example) then your Tiddly html could not work anymore, regardless of the browser. You don't have that limitation with markdown files, which are still readable in txt form. Again, only my opinion.

Re: Ask HN: note taking Tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com) professionally?

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Yes, I have been using it for more than 10 yrs. Search, cross linking and tagging are the key features IMO. The file is 5.6 Mb and it's still very fast. I have to run a ruby server [1] for the saving to work which is a bit annoying but it works.

I might move to a new thing at some point soon just for the mobile support feature.

[1] https://gist.github.com/jimfoltz/ee791c1bdd30ce137bc23cce826...

Re: Ask HN: note taking Tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com) professionally?

#16

One of the gems on the internet. I first used it with ie4 .... that allowed to be saved locally via ActiveX. Now I have a plugin that saves it to Google drive. Many thanks to people who developed it.

Two questions: 1) How do you use it on your mobile device? ( For Reads and Writes) 2) How is the performance on really large files -say 10k tiddlers?

1. I only use it for read only on my phone. 2. Though size can impact load/start up performance, I have found poorly written TW macros and such to cause the biggest performance issues. Large volume of tiddlers can make the problem worse.

I have configured a genealogical solution in TW. So, TW can be used for complex data structures, but you need to be careful on how features are implemented.

Re: Ask HN: note taking Tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com) professionally?

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Yes, I have been using it for more than 10 yrs. Search, cross linking and tagging are the key features IMO. The file is 5.6 Mb and it's still very fast. I have to run a ruby server [1] for the saving to work which is a bit annoying but it works. I might move to a new thing at some point soon just for the mobile support feature. [1] https://gist.github.com/jimfoltz/ee791c1bdd30ce137bc23cce826...

I've found https://tiddly.packett.cool/ is great on desktop and mobile

Re: Ask HN: note taking Tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com) professionally?

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Yes, I have been using it for more than 10 yrs. Search, cross linking and tagging are the key features IMO. The file is 5.6 Mb and it's still very fast. I have to run a ruby server [1] for the saving to work which is a bit annoying but it works. I might move to a new thing at some point soon just for the mobile support feature. [1] https://gist.github.com/jimfoltz/ee791c1bdd30ce137bc23cce826...

I've found https://tiddly.packett.cool/ is great on desktop and mobile

Cool! I'll check it out
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