Live data from Hacker News

TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki

tiddlywiki.com

1–10 of 58 posts

Re: TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki

#2
I built a TiddlyWiki site for an RV park circa 2008. It was easy to do and looked great. It was easy for the non-technical owners to update. But Google completely ignored it, and so the park was invisible to most tourists. It folded a few years back, and I partly blame myself, for picking TiddlyWiki.

Re: TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki

#3
TiddlyWiki producted the best demonstration of a Getting Things Done methodology (organize things to be actionable, display things under a given context, organize things by blockers) I've ever seen.

http://mgsd.tiddlyspot.com/demo3.html

This provides so many more features & organization than what a traditional Todo app provides.

The UX was great, but I didn't like the local data-lock-in due to tiddlywiki. ( Also - the whole ticklers (notification) system was a bit clunky. )

Once in a while I get the motivation to reproduce this as a full-fledged web or mobile app.

Re: TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki

#4
post #3

TiddlyWiki producted the best demonstration of a Getting Things Done methodology (organize things to be actionable, display things under a given context, organize things by blockers) I've ever seen. http://mgsd.tiddlyspot.com/demo3.html This provides so many more features & organization than what a traditional Todo app provides. The UX was great, but I didn't like the local data-lock-in due to tiddlywiki. ( Also - th…

Instead of saving to local, there's a PHP script that lets you save your edits to a file on a server. http://tiddlywiki.com/static/Saving%2520on%2520a%2520PHP%252...

Re: TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki

#5
post #2

I built a TiddlyWiki site for an RV park circa 2008. It was easy to do and looked great. It was easy for the non-technical owners to update. But Google completely ignored it, and so the park was invisible to most tourists. It folded a few years back, and I partly blame myself, for picking TiddlyWiki.

'a non-linear personal web notebook' which you use to build a web site.

Re: TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki

#7
post #2

I built a TiddlyWiki site for an RV park circa 2008. It was easy to do and looked great. It was easy for the non-technical owners to update. But Google completely ignored it, and so the park was invisible to most tourists. It folded a few years back, and I partly blame myself, for picking TiddlyWiki.

'a non-linear personal web notebook' which you use to build a web site.

And it seemed to be great for that purpose. I might not be the only one to think so. A warning seems appropriate.

Re: TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki

#9
post #2

I built a TiddlyWiki site for an RV park circa 2008. It was easy to do and looked great. It was easy for the non-technical owners to update. But Google completely ignored it, and so the park was invisible to most tourists. It folded a few years back, and I partly blame myself, for picking TiddlyWiki.

By now you can export static pages from it, which might help for such use cases: http://tiddlywiki.com/#Generating%20Static%20Sites%20with%20...
Post reply on HN