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Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by kickscondor »

hobo_mark wrote: post #7

I look at TW every couple of years or so, and there has never been either: - a sane way to keep a wiki on something like Dropbox (at the time, the only way to have persistence was to disable browser security and allow JavaScript to write to disk directly) or - a service to sync a wiki between machines Has that changed nowadays?

I've enjoyed using it on Dropbox - with this: https://twcloud.github.io/tw5-dropbox/

The great thing about TiddlyWiki is that you can easily move it somewhere else and edit from there because it is just a single file.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by dotancohen »

TomDavey wrote: post #30

A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox. An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better. Were I going to publish my…

How are you using Org-mode on Android?

I'm using Orgzly, but it only supports a subset of real Org-mode.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by Vekz »

TomDavey wrote: post #30

A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox. An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better. Were I going to publish my…

I also have the Emacs + Org-mode + Dropbox setup.

In addition, I have an AWS lambda endpoint which listens to a SES email hook. I send emails to the SES address which the hook then appends and schedules to org files on dropbox based on email content.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by hsitz »

dotancohen wrote: post #32
TomDavey wrote: post #30

A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox. An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better. Were I going to publish my…

How are you using Org-mode on Android? I'm using Orgzly, but it only supports a subset of real Org-mode.

I don't synch between instances of Org, but you can install a full-blown Emacs (and many other apps) on Android within the Termux terminal emulator:

http://endlessparentheses.com/running-emacs-on-android.html

It runs Org fine, I've even used Spacemacs on Emacs runnning in Termux.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by Milner08 »

jtl999 wrote: post #27

I remember first hearing of TiddlyWiki back in 2005(?) Glad to see it's still here.

I was wondering if it was the same project I remembered! I used to use it in high school, with its stored on a USB stick that i'd carry around on my keys. Was pretty useful at the time, wouldn't want to carry around a USB stick now, but using dropbox is interesting.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by TomDavey »

dotancohen wrote: post #32
TomDavey wrote: post #30

A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox. An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better. Were I going to publish my…

How are you using Org-mode on Android? I'm using Orgzly, but it only supports a subset of real Org-mode.

I haven't integrated Org with either my email or my phone (I'm on iOS actually), at least not yet. It's on the road map!

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by nextos »

TomDavey wrote: post #30

A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox. An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better. Were I going to publish my…

I also use org-mode as a personal wiki, combined with git version control and ripgrep search. Furthermore, my task/time management is also within the wiki, as a kanban page and as an events page. Org has tons of useful features. Especially for time management and export. But it's also quite simple.

I started implementing a personal wiki using MediaWiki long time ago, trying to replicate the concept of Zettelkasten. But MediaWiki is a bit too heavy and complex, even if you use a SQLite backend. Furthermore, it doesn't compose with my editor and version control system of choice.

I think having a wiki is essential, as the deliverable of many tasks is just a knowledge bit you really want to record. It's interesting to see personal wikis are starting to show up in GitHub and GitLab. I wish both platforms improved their org-mode support to capitalize on this trend. We can all collectively benefit from open-sourced wikis in the same way we benefit from open code.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by severine »

techsupporter wrote: post #20
TeMPOraL wrote: post #18

A bit of a tangent, but I'm looking at the (official? shown on site) Tiddlywiki poster[0], and I just have to ask: what is that fish doing, and does this really communicate something positive about the product? -- [0] - https://tiddlywiki.com/poster/images/TiddlyWiki_TiddlerPoste...

I think it is meant to evoke the Babel fish.

Mmm, not sure, do you have more info? Although the pic from the BBC doc here [0] really has a resemblance.

It sure is a really weird/fascinating design...

[0] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Babel_Fish

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by agentdax5 »

I looked into Tiddlywiki before but it seemed too involved to maintain easily and overkill for my use case. I have recently found https://www.notebooksapp.com/ and am in the process of converting all my desperate notes and documents into it using the internal linking to create my own kind of wiki.

Everything is plain text, has markdown support, apps on most platforms, ability to automate things for everyday use, and easier to use overall.

Also I just can’t stand the idea of “tiddlers”.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by severine »

shawn wrote: post #2

I'd like to be able to press a shortcut key and have my computer save a screenshot of whatever I'm looking at, along with letting me type a brief note for context. Ideally it would also record the URL of whatever the browser was visiting (if it's a screenshot of a browser page), or the file path of whatever was open. So basically Pinboard, but for pages of PDFs and other random scraps.

Do you know about Firefox Screenshots?

https://screenshots.firefox.com/

Just for the browser (but that could include PDFs and other things), I think they aim for a workflow very similar to the one you envision.

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