Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

Post by tgirod » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 7:54 AM UTC

jimpick wrote: post #13

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 hooked up Dat multiwriter and the Automerge CRDT for my own personal use... I’ve been using it for several months and it works well. I haven’t tidied it up for a public release, but feel free to try it out: https://dat-tiddlywiki.glitch.me https://github.com/jimpick/dat-tiddlywiki

Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 8:14 AM UTC

hnzix wrote: post #72

snthpy wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is also vimwiki for vim users.

vimwiki is great, but $DEITY forgive me I started using OneNote so I can paste in screenshots and now I can't give it up. Too bad it doesn't support vim keybinds. I tried spacemacs/org/gtd for a while but there was too much yakshaving, sync was hard and still no embedded images.

Post by j7ake » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 8:16 AM UTC

danShumway wrote: post #46

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 do you handle images/screenshots/handwritten notes? I am also using Org-Mode and Dropbox for the majority of my notes. I really like it. In particular, Orgzly for Android works great with this system, so check it out if you want mobile notes as well. The problem is that I also like to take paper notes, and take videos/pictures of stuff, and scan documents, and download webpages. Org-mode kinda stinks for embeddin…

  ;; Paste image to orgmode https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17435995/paste-an-image-on-clipboard-to-emacs-org-mode-file-without-saving-it
  (defun my-org-screenshot ()
    "Take a screenshot into a time stamped unique-named file in the
  same directory as the org-buffer and insert a link to this file."
    (interactive)
    (org-display-inline-images)
    (setq filename
          (concat
           (make-temp-name
            (concat (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name))
                    "_imgs/"
                    (format-time-string "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_")) ) ".png"))
    (unless (file-exists-p (file-name-directory filename))
      (make-directory (file-name-directory filename)))
    ; take screenshot
    (if (eq system-type 'darwin)
        (call-process "screencapture" nil nil nil "-i" filename))
    (if (eq system-type 'gnu/linux)
        (call-process "import" nil nil nil filename))
    ; insert into file if correctly taken
    (if (file-exists-p filename)
      (insert (concat "[[file:" filename "]]"))))

Post by mih » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 8:25 AM UTC

Post by pqs » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 8:29 AM UTC

another-cuppa wrote: post #73

pixelmonkey wrote: post #22

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…

Anyone reading this thinking a "bunch of markdown files" sounds like a good idea should really look into org-mode. Trust me.