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Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

#62

I personally think Tiddlywiki is a fascinating project and I even used it professionally for a few years. But, these days, I think you likely do better with either a Dropbox directory full of Markdown files or installing the free tool Simplenote everywhere (mobile/desktop) and using its support for notes/Markdown. It's true that if you go with these simple schemes, you lose wiki-style linking. But, I've found that YA…

How does Simplenote make money?

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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post #62

I personally think Tiddlywiki is a fascinating project and I even used it professionally for a few years. But, these days, I think you likely do better with either a Dropbox directory full of Markdown files or installing the free tool Simplenote everywhere (mobile/desktop) and using its support for notes/Markdown. It's true that if you go with these simple schemes, you lose wiki-style linking. But, I've found that YA…

How does Simplenote make money?

Subsidized by Automattic, the creators of Wordpress.com and the (large, 790+ employee) company that is main commercial sponsor of Wordpress open source project. https://automattic.com/

The iOS, Android, and Electron/desktop app is open source, but the server-side environment is proprietary to Automattic. But, the app supports simple zip export of all your notes, which is nothing more than a directory full of plain text files and a JSON file representing the (optional) revision history. I believe the Automattic team operates the service for free because they use it as a testing ground for development frameworks that then cross over to Wordpress.com and other projects.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Here's a single-page "simple self-contained web notebook inspired by the "classic" version of TiddlyWiki."

Live demo: https://calroc.github.io/HulloWurld/Hullo.html

Once you're seeing the page you have it all. Click the "Save..." button to keep a local copy with any edit you've made. If you right-click and "save page" you'll get the original content only.)

Repo is here: https://github.com/calroc/HulloWurld

It's just a simple experiment, nothing fancy.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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post #62

I personally think Tiddlywiki is a fascinating project and I even used it professionally for a few years. But, these days, I think you likely do better with either a Dropbox directory full of Markdown files or installing the free tool Simplenote everywhere (mobile/desktop) and using its support for notes/Markdown. It's true that if you go with these simple schemes, you lose wiki-style linking. But, I've found that YA…

How does Simplenote make money?

I received few marketing emails related to a topic that I had mentioned only in a Simplenote note and also started seeing online ads for few days. It might just be coincidental but since then I have moved to Notes.app temporarily and I am looking for a replacement - a third party minimal and private note service.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Besides Tiddlywiki, does anyone have recommendations for personal wiki software?

Zim, if you actually need the wiki-like stuff. Cherrytree, if you are mainly after the structured note-taking functionality.

I use both. Cherrytree for all my daily notational needs.

http://zim-wiki.org/

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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I personally think Tiddlywiki is a fascinating project and I even used it professionally for a few years. But, these days, I think you likely do better with either a Dropbox directory full of Markdown files or installing the free tool Simplenote everywhere (mobile/desktop) and using its support for notes/Markdown. It's true that if you go with these simple schemes, you lose wiki-style linking. But, I've found that YA…

There is also vimwiki for vim users.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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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…

Same .. but Keybase has replaced Dropbox for me for these purposes. The encrypted git repositories are awesome!
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